Mikes Thoughts

The fff or that f’n thing has got me down. I had to figure out how to make it all look like spam and I’m tired and need a beer. I’m hoping that Akismet learns this stuff soon because I actually had to do some reading It took me all of [...]

Seems that I’ve reached a new pattern with writing blogposts of late which include only weekend posts.  Work is getting pretty busy of late with a variety of good things going on so writing here takes a hit.  I still like to record the comings and goings of things, what I see and feel, and [...]

This is a test using Window Live Writer.  So far, I like it.  Its got a pleasant interface; buttons, knobs, and dials in the right places.  Seems to offer a nice set of features for blogging.  Gonna continue to write some blogpost in this editor and weigh it against the others I tend to use [...]

Sunday is one of those days that is the beginning and end type of day.  The weekends seem to speed by sometimes and then work dawns again.  This weekend was pretty quiet and I got play a lot with Debian Sid on my AMD64 box.  I figured out how to get totem working better with [...]

Some bit of time ago, I read Dan York’s retrospective on blogging and it got me thinking about things.  I then started wondering when I wrote on Advogato first time. Turns out it was September 2001.  I then went forward in time from my first “hello world” post and it was quite entertaining.  That year [...]

Here it is Saturday and no work. My current work is quite pleasurable and I was just telling my friend Ed, I feel for the first time in some time, happily engaged with what I’m called upon to do. I had ordered two Seagate 160g laptop drives and they just arrived so I [...]

Dave Sifry has published his latest annual reports on the life of technorati and the life of the blogosphere or whatever we call this grand pyramid and word dance that we all do.  I notice that Dave S. does his big blog postings around midnight most nights so perhaps he is at his most introspective [...]

I’ve done consulting services for a bit of time so I’ve had some time to consider the question regarding what we use online.  In a regular day, I may use Newsfox to aggregate RSS inside my web browser of choice and not ever really have to visit the “real website”.  But we have a number [...]

Thanks to the WordPress support team for helping me out.  Much appreciated.  I was able to get almost 2 full years of posts back which number in the hundreds.  I have a few other drafts which I never posted to my old blog which I am gonna polish up and post as well.  I’ve exported [...]

In keeping with my recent blogging history of actually blogging stuff which has a bit of merit, I started dwelling upon what is the most popular in terms of downloads or use of the major blogging players out there.  I considered a few things which were important to me:

I wanted a blogging platform which was [...]