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Textpattern Installation
_Don’t you love those packages that don’t stick a how to install somewhere up front. Here’s what I’ve been able to glean: # Textpattern Support Forum / I am lost Help!!!. Download textpattern_g118a, unzip it (I’m assuming you’re on Windows.) Set up a MySQL database w/ your host (mine had cPanel which let me set…
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Blogger Coding
the blogger code. Fun idea, take a survey and summarize how nerdy you are with a code. Mine is bq. B8 d++ t+ k++ s u f+ i o+ x e+ l+ c– FWIW, reminds me that I once taught Connie LISP, so know when she says bq. (geekp) I can answer bq. t And…
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Moblogging: WAP and SMS Blog Entry
“Joi Ito’s Resource”:http://radio.weblogs.com/0114939/outlines/moblog.html#. Joi Ito has a great list of applications that allow you to take SMS and push it via an email interface onto a blog. wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Hey in the course of installing all these new blogging tools, I was reminded of…
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Quick Review of MT Alternatives
Here is some deeper drill downs base on comments on Movable Type RIP | Metafilter. Folks realy like WordPress (only manages a single blog though), ExpressionEngine, b2evolution, textpattern. NEed to check them out. Others are Pivot, but the top votes are WordPress and ExpressionEngine, so here are notes about each and I’ll put up trial…
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Sony Fires Back
Ars Technica: Sony unveils music player to unseat the iPod’s dominance. Well I’ve been thinking about getting an iPod Mini, fortunately more choices are arriving. The new Sony VAIO Pocket VGF-AP1 (boy, they love those long names) sounds pretty cool. Main issue I’m sure is that it uses a strange format called ATRAC3 that I…
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Democracy and India
Democracy triumphs over conventional wisdom in India? | Metafilter. Amazing to me, but sometimes good does win over xenophobia. The fact that the BJP lost in India to the Congress is an amazing thing.
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Cool new Laptops
Well, my trusty Compaq N600c is now dead (it doesn’t recognize batteries) and my old Toshiba 3440 gave up the ghost long ago. I thought for a while I didn’t need a laptop, but what to do on business trips, so in the market for new ones: * Two Hot VAIO Laptops States-Bound: X505 and…
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Thoughtful comments about MT
Teal Sunglasses: Movable Type 3.0. Smart words from chuqui. More about what’s happened with MT. Main points are you have to be careful about the loyalty in your customer base. While you can say its no big deal to leave the first blogging community behind, from my own experience, you have to be super careful,…
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MovableType 3.0 Released: I'm so sad
Well, all good things have to come to an end. MoveableType will now “cost”:http://secure.sixapart.com are essentially $150-$900 for the personal weblogs that I manage right now (this site, Geekfishing.net and the related sites). The real issue here is whether they should charge or not, but they are making a classic “averaging” mistake. That is, getting…
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Creating a private blog
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- intro. Well, blogs are designed to be public, but what if you want a private one that no one else can see. There are a bunch of methods, but the .htaccess file is the easiest I’ve found for Apache on Linux (what my hoster uses).