I am previously stated my desire about rebuilding Shifting Bits into a Django-based blog, but it has been really slow going due to other time commitments.
Over the weekend, I started cutting out a [fresh new template](http://paltman.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/shifting-bits-by- patrick-altman-1-4.png) and a migration script to get my data export from WordPress into my Post model (borrowing heavily from Brian Rosner’s oebfare — why invent when you can steal).
Here is a preview of what is to come, hopefully sooner rather than later:
