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Moving from Joomla to WordPress
I tried, I really did but every time I thought about updating the site I remembered what a pain Joomla is and became dissuaded. I like simple, yet extensible, and I’d categorize Joomla as overly complex and extensible if you’re willing to pay money. This is mostly understandable; Joomla is a CMS, not a blogging…
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Photography page added
Hey… content / a repackaging of old stuff! I’ve added a photography page with a few of my best photos along with a category for technical disasters. To make it easy, I’m using the Ozio Gallery plugin to pull my public photos from Google+, so anything new on Google+ automatically mirrors here. While the plugin…
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Microsoft – Splitting the web again
Microsoft has a long and sad history of screwing the web. Internet Explorer 6 is responsible for years of web developer pain, slow web innovation, and a lot of security holes. And because it was built into Windows, it was the dominant browser for web developers (and malware) to target. Flash (but not Adobe) forward…
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Writing is a pain
Let me tell you about being lazy. I’m finding writing to be very hard actually. I have 3 half-written articles on various subjects, but the motivation to finish them is diminished. As I started each of them, I had a grand design of the topics they should be about and what the articles should touch…
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Peculiar habits: Software update checking
Since as far back as I’ve had access to the Internet, I’ve been an obsessive checker, that is someone who will check for website updates every hour (sometimes less) to see what was new. This started with video gaming websites and AOL message boards, but since RSS made this a trivial issue, I’ve moved on to software updates.…
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Moving from WordPress to Joomla
As was alluded to on the About page, I’ve had some previous experience running a web site. At the time, and until this web site, I’ve been using and proclaiming WordPress to be the bees knees™ of free content management systems. But for this site, I wanted to actually try something different, maybe a little…
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Self-debate: Nexus 6
Google recently announced the Nexus 6, the ginormous sequel to the Nexus 5. I’m a huge fan of Android, but haven’t been able to participate in the Nexus program since the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, so this news, the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop, and that Google are willing to give Verizon another shot, have me…