Inspired by episode 0.1.7 of The Changelog podcast, I have cloned and configured an Octopress blog for recording my software development efforts. You will find a copy of this blog at dev.cpjobling.org.uk and also on my GitHub page cpjobling.github.org. And if it proves useful, Octopress may also replace the Proman development blog Proman, man.

Out of the box, it provides links to twitter and delicious and can be configured to use disqus, google custom search and google analytics.

As well as providing an interesting approach to blogging, Octopress, by using Markdown, Compass, Haml and Sass, also provides me with a useful sandpit for trying out these technologies.