I finally bit the bullet and moved my site from WordPress.com. I’ll be messing with the formatting, style and everything else over the coming days, so please excuse the mess.
Category Archives: blogging
Why bother with RSS?
Posted by svec on March 30, 2008
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(cut-n-pasted from my reply to a “Business of Software” forum question) I resisted using an RSS reader for quite a while, mainly because it was “the new hotness” that I didn’t see any use for. What made me start using it? I read a fair number of websites, and I like to know when something [...]
Blog, Cringely
Posted by svec on October 27, 2006
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Robert Cringely’s “I, Cringely” site has changed from a non-interactive plain ol’ web page to a blog format. I can’t say that I care too much about the comments, but I do like the new page design. Mostly I’m looking forward to more NerdTV interviews: “NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks – a one-hour [...]
Cringely goes to the blogs
Posted by svec on September 2, 2006
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Robert X. Cringely, tech pundit extraordinaire, said he’s going to change his weeklyish column into a blog. I’m hoping that means we’ll get to see more frequent content from him. I really enjoy his insight into the tech world – he’s usually thinking things no one else is (or at least he’s the only one [...]
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 [...]
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