This is my personal website where I talk about a whole load of different stuff, from 
Hey folks, long time no see!
As you can probably see, there have been a canny few changes around here, but one which you might not notice is the fact that I've now switched from a custom-made blogging system to the fantastic Posterous.com service.
Posterous, a free blogging service, is a piece of piss to set-up. All you have to do is e-mail some images, text, links to YouTube etc to the "post@posterous.com" account and bam, it's instantly converted to a nicely formatted blog post with embedded video links, galleries etc.
Normally Posterous blogs are hosted using the format "yourhostname.posterous.com", but you can point your DNS to the Posterous servers in order to use your own domain. Useful for some, but not for me because I do other things on this domain such as display my portfolio of work, and other stuff that I maybe haven't implented yet. If I pointed my DNS away I'd lose the ability to do this.
For those reasons, I decided that I was going to use the Posterous API to query my Posterous account, and read in the blog posts as if they were hosted here. Thanks to the PosterAPI project written in C# by Nuane, I can do this no problem at all (although the Posterous API only returns the previous 50 items, which is a bit pap). See the links in the footer for more details on how this works.
Sooo - since it's a bit easier to post and edit, you might find this blog gets updated a bit more frequently! Enjoy!
Edit: Bear with me while I import all of my previous articles - it's a pain in the arse, since I didn't have an XML-RPC enabled blog beforehand so I'm having to do it manually...
Also, it appears that Posterous severely buggers up any attempt at making your pages validate properly, with its YouTube embed code - bah! Something I'll have to live with I think!
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