Away for Christmas
Wowsers. I’ve been busy since last I posted. Don’t know where to start, maybe I just won’t. Right now I’m blogging with Wicked Intellect’s new flash interface using the XML-RPC Blogger interface; an excellent proof of concept, but practically , not very useful. It doesn’t even do automatic line-breaking. Oh well, maybe that’ll come in a future version. I also dlled another, more traditional style blog tool. BlogBuddy provides an alternative to the browser-base interfaces: it runs as a traditional win app, but uses the blogger.com interface. Pretty cool, but it would be even more useful if you could write your blogs out, save them to the hd, and upload them later whenever you wanted to/had time to connect to the net. You could do that with a text editor, but would it be as cool? Probably not.
I’m so tired. I’m not used to going out for more than a couple of hours at a time, and then returning to the safety of my computer. But today, I was out and about for more than 6 hours. All because I’m visiting my uncle in Maryland for Christmas. Excuse me if my blog isn’t as coherent as it usually is, I feel strange. Plus too, my uncle is distracting me…
On the good side, I found a new web hoster to replace F2S- l33t.ca. You see how diligent readers are rewarded? There’s always something to learn from me =) Seriously though, l33t.ca is cool– they provide a motherlode of tech for free, and let you do virtual hosting off of them, and you can charge! It’s enough to make me cry. Compare that to F2S- the evil company that I thought for a while, was the best hosting service: they lured in hundreds(?) of sites’ webmasters with lures of free hosting and access to PHP/mySQL, and when they’d taken the bait, dropped the bomb. Pay up, or ship out; and so many people had designed their sites to use PHP/mySQL, myself included. And its so hard to find those offered for free… so you can understand why I love the people who own l33t.ca. Of course, they could just be plotting in the same manner, with a greater degree of seriousness, but I doubt it– they are nothing but a free hosting site. How wonderfully strange! So my new site ‘MindShare’ will be up @ nucoder.l33t.ca sometime soon. I dlled some site designs from OSWD and started messing with them, so I think this site will have some kind of coherent artistic look to it. Hopefully, I’ll also workout a way to base the site on MovableTyple– everysince I saw the site Streams of Consciousness based on that engine, I’ve been drooling to use it.
I also am renewing my knowledge in several areas: Scheme, Haskell, DHTML, CSS, history, and sci-fi =) Isn’t winter break wonderful?
Possibly relevant posts:
- LaTeX blogs– sounds sexy! (8/3/2001)
- It’s alive! Hum, ha ha ha! (6/25/2002)
- Blog Rolling (Rolo-dexing) (2/21/2003)