My new hosting provider is Nearly Free Speech and I am now running WordPress.
One benefit of Wordpress over Typo is the maturity of its plugins and regular releases of the software itself. Even without much knowledge of php or Wordpress internals, I think I’ve been able to get my site set up to behave the way I like. I’m [...]
It seems that Typo lacks good ping/trackback integration (e.g. for pinging services like Technorati). I’m playing with moving over to Nearly Free Speech for hosting: their prices are good and their infrastructure seems more advanced than what PlanetArgon currently has. There will be some DNS cache incoherency and URL changes as I migrate [...]
On our webserver, we run a wiki for tracking various administrative bits. Today, we migrated it from MoinMoin 1.3 to DokuWiki. This was not entirely trivial but at the same time not that difficult. The following method doesn’t preserve history, users or attachments, but seems to basically work. The handling of categories could probably use a little [...]
I’ve been thinking about having a blog for a while and now here I have one with my own domain name running on outsourced hosting. That doesn’t really seem like me–I usually like to have more control–but I think Dan Sandler has really summarized the whole argument: it’s a lot of work to have featureful blog software and if someone [...]
