Back from Bali, to 21 degree, wet days in Brizzy.  B's back at work and I've got a week before I start at Blue Dog, so I'm thinking of things to do to take up the time.  

A bit of gym work to drop the holiday kilos, and maybe a little computer time to get the brain back to work.  Then there's the garden, which, thanks to last week's downpour, is now soaking wet and sprouting weeds everywhere.  Too wet to cut the lawn, so I'll probably have to do something indoors instead.

So, I'm finally getting my act together and building a real website for myself that contains a little bit more than just a blog.  I've done a lot of work with Joomla lately, so it seemed a pretty simple choice to use it to build my site.

At first I thought about keeping WP around for blogging, and Joomla for everything else, but getting the same template working under both systems was too much like hard work, so the next choice was to add a blog to Joomla. 

Mojoblog sounded like the best option, as it basically gives you Wordpress inside Joomla.  Only problem is, she don't work with Joomla 1.5, which is what I'm using - having met with the honchos from the Joomla team last week. Apparently, its author is working on a 1.5 version, but there's nothing out there at the moment.  Hence I've had to look around for an alternative, and I found it in Jooblog.  It's got pretty basic functionality at the moment, but it looks like the author's fairly actively developing it.  So, I've decided to gamble on it becoming feature-complete enough to use going forward.  In the meantime, the old blog will sit at my old site until I can find a convenient way of back-importing the articles into this system.

Lots of news this week, professionally and travel-wise, but as I sit here watching Die Hard 4 with a big glass of Shiraz Malbec, frankly I'm too tired and emotional to write about it at the moment.  Stay tuned!