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New Taking the blog plunge
I. have. a. blog. All right, several, actually -- between now and September, we hope to get most of our staff blogging -- but my personal one is here:

[link|http://www.amorhq.net/blogs/index.php/fumanchu|http://www.amorhq.ne...ndex.php/fumanchu]

It'll develop slowly, but feel free to let me know when it breaks. ;)
New Nice. Can you elaborate a bit more on your choice?
It looks nice. I hope it works out well for you.

Can you tell us a little more about why you picked b2evolution over some of the other things mentioned [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=191359|here]? Which ones did you try and what were they missing?

Redirect the thread as you think appropriate. Heck, you can even put it on your blog if it can make it through your rassin-frassin profanity filter. :-)

Cheers,
Scott.
New OK, more written.
[link|http://www.amorhq.net/blogs/index.php/fumanchu/2005/02/02/more_about_the_choice_of_blog_software|http://www.amorhq.ne..._of_blog_software]
Expand Edited by FuManChu Feb. 3, 2005, 01:21:38 AM EST
New The irony is just so ... ironic
From your blog, I followed the link to the cow-orker's blog. The title seems strangley apropriate just now.
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Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link|http://DocHope.com|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats].
[link|http://DocHope.com|http://DocHope.com]
New Heh, heh, heh.
I'm going to work out the technical kinks for a couple more weeks, then get her on board. After Spring Break, I'll get 3 or 4 more going, then open it up to all staff in September, when the demand has reached a fever pitch. Gotta plan these underground rollouts carefully. ;)

But I gave her the title and tagline because she's witty, yes.
New Thanks. I'd "trackback" or whatever if I knew how and why.
Should I worry about the effect on zIWeThey's mighty [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/1/19/35627/2443|PageRank]?!?

;-)

Never mind, I know nothing much about blogging and have never "trackbacked" anything. So many of the blogs I've come across have been so awful to read (the lack of comment threading is a real problem on them IMO) that I haven't bothered to learn the terminology.

Thanks for taking the time for the summary. I'm looking, off and on, for something simple to allow collaboration at work on some projects without the overhead of overworked and undertimed people having to learn HTML, etc. E-mailing .DOC and .PPT and .XLS files back and forth, or using a shared directory as a dumping ground gets old after a while. Maybe we'll advance to the 1990s one of these days...

I'll check out b2e and some of the add-ons you mentioned. Gracias!

Cheers,
Scott.
New That's why I feel rather brave
...I don't know anything about blogging either, but I went ahead and announced like a fool. ;)

Trackbacks, by the way, are pretty much just a way to say, "I want to comment on your article, but I'm going to put my comments on my blog instead of on yours, and just link back."

Re: threaded comments. That [link|http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm|blog breakdown] I pointed to earlier seems to think bBlog, Serendipity, and SPIP have threaded comments.

Re: collaborative documents. Have you seen [link|http://me.sphere.pl/indexen.htm|Moonedit]?


The Sig:
"Despite the seemingly endless necessity for doing
so, it's actually not possible to reverse-engineer intended invariants
from staring at thousands of lines of code (not in C, and not in
Python code either)."

Tim Peters on python-dev
New Moonedit looks an awful lot like "talk" to me.
Talk with edits going everywhere like a text whiteboard or something. It's a little disconcerting actually. :-)

It's a neat idea, and having something like that would probably be handy, but it seems very young and is just a text editor at the moment.

What I envision is something that lets multiple users paste in bitmaps, have formatted text, have spreadsheet widgets, have access to database information, and print nicely, all without having to spend days learning how to use it. In other words, a true multi-user hyperdocument office system. Something that's also extensible to add, say, mathematics packages, e-mail broadcasts or notifications of updates, calendaring, threaded discussion, etc. (Lotus Notes was supposed to be something like that, wasn't it?) I'm not asking for too much, am I? ;-)

Thanks for the pointers to bBlog and the others:

bBlog claims to have threaded comments by default, but, e.g., [link|http://www.bblog.com/viewtopic.php?t=1079|this] doesn't look threaded to me. :-/

[link|http://www.s9y.org/1.html|Serendipity]'s site seems very sluggish. [link|http://ethicalmajority.com/archives/1-Welcome.html#comments|This] is a Serendipity blog with some comments. They do seem to be threaded OK, but it also seems to be very sluggish.

I looked briefly at [link|http://www.spip.net/en_article2009.html|SPIP], but wasn't able to find a site with comments.

It bothers me that something as basic as threaded discussion, something that was worked out about 20 years ago on USENET (with TRN), seems so foreign on so much of the blogging software. Oh well, it wouldn't be software if it wasn't reinvented, poorly, every few years. :-)

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Scott.
New b2evolution... Nice Choice.
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[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"]
No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
New obK5BlogStory.
Heed it. Heed it well.


Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
New I promise...
...to not sip latte.
...to never use an iMac.
...to not live in the suburbs anytime soon.
...to never discuss presidential elections. Ever.
...to never discuss "the economy". Of any country. Except maybe Mexico. Maybe. Doubtful.
...to never discuss political parties. Ever.
...to work tirelessly toward the eradication of proof-by-analogy.
...to never temperately argue down to a single, unified viewpoint. So shut up about the K5 post, already, Peter. It doesn't even have its facts straight anymore--the Google trackback example fiasco is no more. Instead, the #1 hit is a navel-gazing blog about the Google trackback example fiasco. ;)

Unless you had some other ob* in mind.


And now:
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

Mark Twain
New Re: I promise...
Blogs. Feh. Ugh. Etc.

And Google's search results are still infested with blogshite.

It's the incestuous unctuousness of the "blogosphere" that I detest. "Here's my blog! Isn't it wonderful! I've deleted all the comments that point out what cack I'm talking! Here's a zillion links to more of the same self-reinforcing shite!"

Jesus, people. What's wrong with a .plan? Same amount of useful info, less space. What about a regular ole web site?

I miss fingering people. Um. That didn't come out right.

</rant>


Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
New ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #193026 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=193026|ICLRPD]
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
New ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #192996 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=192996|ICLRPD]
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
     Taking the blog plunge - (FuManChu) - (13)
         Nice. Can you elaborate a bit more on your choice? - (Another Scott) - (6)
             OK, more written. - (FuManChu) - (5)
                 The irony is just so ... ironic - (drewk) - (1)
                     Heh, heh, heh. - (FuManChu)
                 Thanks. I'd "trackback" or whatever if I knew how and why. - (Another Scott) - (2)
                     That's why I feel rather brave - (FuManChu) - (1)
                         Moonedit looks an awful lot like "talk" to me. - (Another Scott)
         b2evolution... Nice Choice. -NT - (folkert)
         obK5BlogStory. - (pwhysall) - (4)
             I promise... - (FuManChu) - (3)
                 Re: I promise... - (pwhysall) - (1)
                     ICLRPD (new thread) - (inthane-chan)
                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (Silverlock)

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