Well, I went ahead and made this site live. No more stupid placeholder “coming soon” page.
I don’t really consider this site “finished”, but I’ve basically decided that Drupal will just be a holdover until I can write something better. I plan to investigate TurboGears, Ruby on Rails, and CakePHP in my quest to write something better, though I might end up just implementing something custom using mod_python using the lessons learned from those three.
But for now, at least I have a site with a working blog.