April 2008

Linking In…

April 22, 2008 at 4:29 PM

in Operations

Up until now, we’ve been resisting placing links directly into the body of the posts (and pages, for that matter). Rather than keep you all in suspense, here’s the latest news on this: going forward, we’ll try to embed the links (if we remember, that is). I’ll probably go back, as time permits, to retcon [...]

The Setup When I set up the blog, I quickly realized that the default theme was too plain, so I rummaged around a bit and came across the Cutline theme. Not bad; in fact, a simple clean appearance. But I noticed that there was a slight problem with a couple of pages: the Archives and [...]

Paper: Real or Digital?

April 17, 2008 at 8:49 PM · 1 comment

in Convergence,Meanderings

The Setup Quick: when you’re surfing around (or digging, even) the Web, how often do you think about paper? Be honest. C’mon, now! Assuming you’re not a paper manufacturer or a paper professional, you’re probably not thinking about paper, unless you’re attempting to locate some paper to buy. But then again, you may think it [...]

Humor me on the iterative iterativeness of blogging about blogging. Well, that may be a bit imprecise: I’m actually on the topic of software used to blog. On the Server Side As you may have guessed by now, this blog is powered by WordPress. Like many other WP sites, the Web app itself is written [...]

Making It Look Easy

April 13, 2008 at 1:35 AM

in Meanderings,Operations,Programming

Way back in the dawn of modern computing, guys like me– well, let’s face it– nutty guys like me… we weren’t merely developers. If you were going to write code, you had to do everything yourself, soup-to-nuts. That, of course, meant you also needed to perform all hardware and software management. So, you designed your [...]

Cobwebs…?

April 12, 2008 at 3:01 PM

in Meanderings

Cobwebs… In the pre-blog days: sometimes, just as I’m about to write something really-really-really important, my mind goes <blam> blank </blam>. So, all I’m left with this a bare inkling of something that used to be there… but it’s replaced with something else that may or may not be just as important/interesting… One of the [...]

Greetings and Salutations!

April 10, 2008 at 8:45 PM · 3 comments

in Meanderings

Greetings and salutations! For the longest time, although I been engaged in building lots and lots of different systems, micro- to mega-sized, for a variety of employers and clients, I haven’t devoted any time to constructing my own blog. And, yes, I’ve started and maintained a bunch of internal corporate blogs, but it’s just not [...]