Category Archives: Generalities
Shoot to Not Kill
Popular Science | Shoot to Not Kill – A journalist’s first hand account of getting shot with the “Active Denial System,” a millimeter-wave beam that causes unbearable pain without permanent skin damage.
New Site Features
Well, the transition to TextDrive is complete. I’ve canceled my account with my prior hosts, Media3. I was a part of their 12 month’s free linux hosting which is a good deal. However, the site was slow and features limited.
On TextDrive I get 5 times the harddrive space and bandwidth. Not to mention faster servers and an infinite number of MySQL databases. However, the real gems of TextDrive are WebDAV and Subversion. I’ve already setup WebDAV with iCal to publish my calendar. Subversion should allow me version control so I can keep track of any changes I make to the website.
Urichin should be installed later so I can keep tabs on who visits the site. But until then, a slightly modified version of refer should do the trick nicely.
Todo Items:
- More photo albums
- Photoblog
- New CSS layout (I lack an eye for visual design)
Sun Bloggers
Sun adds employee blogs, further proof that blogging won’t destroy my life as my mom would like me to think.
Silly Molecules
Brainball
TextDrive
If you are reading this, it means that the new DNS settings have propagated and you are viewing the new server that is hosting my blog.
You’ll notice the slighly girly layout change. Hopefully it’ll get improved over the coming weeks but I don’t have tons of time to devote to that.
The new server is hosted by TextDrive which provides fast and inexpensive hosting for people who create content.
More info later.
WordPress Linkblogs
WordPress Linkblogs, I’m using the Asides method by Matt.
Pink Numbers
Pink Numbers, a hilarious retort to the (in my opinion stupid) Purple Numbers some bloggers are proposing.
Blogware Choice
Owen, who previously had laid out a large chart of different blogging software packages, just chose WordPress for his blog. His reasons echo my own.
So here were my deciding factors:
Answer #1: Pretty GUI. Ok, this sounds superficial. But if you’re going to be looking at software nearly every day for as long as you blog, you’re going to want something that doesn’t make you cringe with its color choices. You want all of the buttons to do what they say and be easily found. You want it so clear that when you ask your mom to guest-author while you’re on vacation, you don’t have to sit with her and explain everything.
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Answer #2: Free. If, for some reason, I get upset that the developers of WordPress are not interested in providing new features that I want, I can grab the code, add my own changes, and release it under a different name.
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Answer #3: Support.
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Anyway, there you have it. The twisted reasoning behind my choices. I’m not saying that WordPress is the best blogware out there, just that it meets my needs better than anything else does.
??From Asymptomatic: Blogware Choice, via Photo Matt??
Brad Froehle 