Well, it’s my second migration. First I built this blog on my own using php. Then I decided to venture out and stop re-inventing the wheel and use a real blogging software tool. I chose Mephisto at the time (about a year ago), but I eventually regretted that and am now completely content with WordPress. […]

This blog you are reading is powered by Mephisto. I originally created this blog using my own code in PHP and was so tired of re-inventing the wheel that I went out and researched what I thought would be the best blogging software for my needs. I’m in love with Ruby on Rails, so one […]

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I was getting frustrated with the idea of updating my sitemap.xml every time I created a new article on this blog. So I started mulling through the Mephisto Wiki and found a Mephisto Google Sitemap Plugin from Stephen Caudill which works great! I would have left a comment on his site, but it appears that […]

I don’t know if it’s because the Lucid theme for Mephisto was ported from Typo, but it was displaying the timestamp on my entries as UTC instead of MST, which is what I told Mephisto my time zone is in the Settings. Apparently Lucid uses JavaScript to convert the timestamp into a more descriptive time […]