nosuch.org

My one line review of ecto, a blogging client for Mac OS X and Windows:
You frickin’ piece of shit you ate my god-damned post, even though I hit save before I hit publish and you beachballed for an eternity.
For the review to have the right effect, read it very loudly through clenched teeth.
In the trash [...]

[Read more →]

It’s time to reboot this thing.
A new year is a good time for a fresh start. Transitioning over to WordPress is more of a pain in the ass than just cutting over, so I’m going to start with that. All the old Blogger content is still around (and the last index is here). I’ll import [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve helped a couple of friends host blogs, and one of them needed to convert to a private, members only blog. It was pretty clear the right way to do this was to have each user have their own account and password, and ideally, the users could simply register and get approved, minimizing administration time. [...]

[Read more →]

After years of being with Blogger, I am now making preparations to move to a new weblog system. I won’t say precisely when this will happen, since I can’t miss a deadline I don’t set.
I’ve always been reasonably happy with Blogger, so much so that I was one of those wacky “Blogger Pro” users. And [...]

[Read more →]

I rather recently learned the hard way the hidden costs of using a crappy hosting company. My own hosting needs are rather tame, though we do manage to serve up about 20 GB of data a month, the TalkAboutUSA web forum being most of that traffic. But that same forum is rather dependant on MySQL [...]

[Read more →]