Musings on 140 characters
Sometimes, it seems like my normally quiet nature works against me. I have a blog (you’re reading it right now), but it seems like 95% of the posts in the last few years are the reposts from delicious.com (née del.icio.us). The long format just isn’t something at which I’m very good. Twitter seems to be a little better for me, but I fear that were I to abandon the blog altogether, I’d eventually have something to say that wouldn’t fit into the 140 characters that you get from Twitter (for example, this post, which is up to 555 characters already). But in the same vein, I also worry that the blog has become a wasteland, a remnant of better days when I had more to say (or at least, was able to write more about what I wanted to say). Plus there’s the whole “what happens to your data if the cloud blows away” aspect; what if twitter were to go under? All the posts that I make, even considering the signal:noise ratio, vanish into the aether. The digital world is even more transient than the physical, I understand that, but at least while I control my own sites, I can be reasonably certain that what I’ve written won’t vanish without warning.
…Hosting has moved!
The hosting for devlogic.org (and hez.devlogic.org, and logic.cx, and maybe a few others) has been moved. If you’re reading this post, then you’re looking at the new site. If not, um, how are you reading this?
…New Hosting (finally!)
I broke down and signed up for a DreamHost account this morning. At the price I paid, I could hardly refuse. So some transitions are in order, which means the site, my email, and my jabber server may be “in flux” for a few days while I move various services to the new server (and IP address).
…Micro-blogging
check my twitter page to follow my fun micro-blogging while Heather and I drive to Nevada!
…Birthday Revelations, or On Turning 32
Today is my 32nd birthday. 32 times (or so) around the sun, 11,687 days (give or take). And as I come to the realization that I’m older (even though it doesn’t feel like it), I’ve come to another realization as well.
I’m fat. I’m not going to candy-coat it with the word “overweight” because the harsh reality of it is that I weigh too much, and it’s entirely my fault. I haven’t even stepped on a scale in at least the last 6 months, because I’ve been trying to avoid this realization.
…Hell yeah!
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Solitaire and wasting time
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Paul and Heather, Year 2
I’m about a week late in posting this (at least, I would be, if I cared at all about fake deadlines).
On November 3, 2007, I married the love of my life. We couldn’t have had better luck, in meeting each other, in falling in love, in planning the wedding details, or having the best possible weather in early November in North Texas. Our honeymoon in San Francisco was the start of Paul and Heather, Year 1.
…PHP-CBViewer 0.1
https://sourceforge.net/projects/php-cbviewer/
Version 0.1 is in SVN now. A README file is pending (I can’t work on this project while at work, so when I get home, I’ll be writing some documentation, including necessary modules, etc).
For the un-enlightened, this project is a PHP-based CBR and CBZ viewer, for reading “comic book archives” in a web browser, instead of in a standalone client.
…Option key FTW!
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