“Tradeoffs: Fast, Cheap, Good – Pick Two.” That saying is usually depicted with a triangle – each edge or point of the triangle has one of the words on it. Kind of a binary (or ternary?) thing: You can have Fast and Cheap, but it’ll be lousy. You can have Fast and Good, but it’ll [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Online calendar Kiko sold on Ebay
Posted by svec on August 27, 2006
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As you may have heard, the online calendar site Kiko was sold on Ebay (edit June 11, 2007: auction has been aged off of eBay) for $258,100. Kiko authors Richard White and Justin Kan blogged about why they sold Kiko (click their names for their posts), Richard explains more here. From the first of Richard’s [...]
Spellchecking complaint followup
Posted by svec on August 27, 2006
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I received this email from WordPress support regarding the spellchecking problem (‘blog’ is not in their dictionary): Thanks for the report. We are already aware of that and will resolve it shortly. Turns out their online support forums already had a bunch of references to the same problem – I thought I had searched for [...]
Spellchecking complaint
Posted by svec on August 26, 2006
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I ended my last post with: PS: The WordPress spellchecker doesn’t know the words “blog” or “blogging.” I turned in for the night right after that post. When I woke up this morning my first thought was “Gee, I whined about the WordPress spellchecking, which is essentially pointless – unless I do something about it!” [...]
WordPress post editor
Posted by svec on August 25, 2006
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The WordPress post editor has the word “Path:” in the bottom left corner of the text entry box. Nothing else, just “Path:”. At first I had no idea what it means, and then as I type some more it says “Path: p”. “p?” What the heck does that mean? I’m a command line geek and [...]
Creating a WordPress blog
Posted by svec on August 25, 2006
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When I decided to create a blog, I knew there were a few major free blog players out there. Google/Blogger, WordPress, etc. I chose WordPress because (a) it had the largest, most straightforward looking homepage, and (b) when I visited http://svec.wordpress.com it had a big friendly button that said “Create Blog.” Done. That’s some good [...]
Post Zero
Posted by svec on August 24, 2006
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So I’m starting a blog. Why? Here’s a few reasons: I would like to become a better writer. Everything I’ve read says the best (only?) way to do it is to Just Do It – and write. Well, technically that’s not true, because most things I read do not talk about how to become a [...]
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