Technology & Web

Pardon the look of the site today. This site went down yesterday and in the process took the theme and design with it. This is all a part of learning WordPress, which uses php and can suck resources from your server, and I learned that one’s server can actually “kill” your site. (Yes, this is the term my host’s support used: “we killed your site!” Drastic.) Hopefully I will get things back up and running in no time!

By the way, I use the Thesis theme for WordPress. I have gotten quite used to it, and used to customizing it. There are other great themes and blogging platforms out there, but finding one to tweak and sticking with it makes life a whole lot easier, especially when one is running multiple sites on WordPress.

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Movable Type or WordPress: a crossroads

May 31, 2010

I am at a crossroads. I currently run several blogs, some personal, some group/professional, and over the years I’ve mostly used Movable Type. I’ve tried Blogger, Typepad, wordpress.com, and even for a brief period Tumblr. But I always get bored with hosted blogs because I like having endless capabilities to change things. I’ve had my [...]

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Reading, Writing and Will We All Go Tablet?

April 1, 2010

This recent blog from CNN’s Money got my attention. Read this first (if you want), then come back here. I’ll be waiting with my 2 cents. 10 luminaries look ahead to the business of reading My 2 Cents I love Apple, I really do. I have been going on these machines since Apple IIe–you remember, [...]