"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." Category Archives for Web
VOX popular
VOX, Six Apart’s new blogging tool, is now open to everyone. I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and (as you may have noticed) it’s made me forget about this here MT-powered self-made blog that I’ve had … Continue reading
Back to the future of weblogs
For the past couple of weeks I have been mostly blogging at Vox, where I can set my posts to ‘private / friends / family’. Yeah, like LiveJournal, but I’ve never felt at home at LiveJournal – it doesn’t look … Continue reading
Confession
I miss MT. Please don’t hurt me. If I ever get put on trial for abusing publishing tools, I will claim temporary insanity: “Your honour, I am not myself today.”
Switcheri-doo-dah
She’s switched again, it’s like musical tables! Not much of a change design-wise, but this place now runs on Pivot, which as I mentioned before, has its own quirks: * Entry pages live in /archive/ even if you don’t want … Continue reading
Back away from the keyboard
Oh dear, oh dear. Never thought something as pedestrian as me not getting on with a piece of software would launch such debate (1, 2). We seem to have stepped on some toes. It’s enough to drive this n00b away … Continue reading
Second thoughts about this malarkey
Hmm. I don’t like WordPress at all. I don’t like that I don’t have a linky blog. I hate that I have to add a plug in to be able to do something as simple as upload images. I have … Continue reading
And the word was press
Movable Type has never worked well on prolific.org. Whether it is the 7000+ entries, or its long history of Blogger/MT exports and imports, it’s just always been a sluggish installation. U2log.com runs on the same server (eite.pair.com), is almost as … Continue reading
Lazy woman’s Amazon search
I wish there was a single search interface for all Amazon stores. I often buy either from .com or co.uk and it would save a lot of time searching. And if possible, it should generate associate links for all stores … Continue reading
It simply isn’t
A few days ago I wrote a short post which later developed into a longer post. It went: ‘Steven Levy asks: “Since anyone can write a Weblog, why is the blogosphere dominated by white males?” My answer: Because it isn’t.’ … Continue reading
