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Technology

This site is driven by WordPress, a dynamic blogging system written in PHP and MySQL. The template is heavily tweaked from the original to get this fixed-width layout. I'm using three plugins to make the site a little nicer to format: Markdown, an in-line text formatting tool; WP-Cache, a caching system that speeds up page display by caching unchanging dynamic pages; and Lazy Image Layout, a plugin I wrote to provide the image layout and dynamic caching thumbnail generation. Because I hate resizing and uploading thumbnails :-)

For managing files, I used Dreamweaver MX 2004 as the main interface for maintaining the layout of my site. But I don't use the visual layout tools, goodness no! Hand code all the way! However, I find the visual tools are good for quickly highlighting the code you need to touch...just click on the thingy in the layout view, and the HTML editor jumps and highlights the right spot.

I'm giving StatCounter a go for page tracking. I like how their web page sounds, and the tools look more convenient than Analog or Webalizer. And it's free, for a log size of 100. If you want more, then you start to pay.

I'm using Shaun Inman's Mint counter too, as of September 2005. I'm keeping StatCounter in place for continuity.

My web host for the past 5 or 6 years has been Pair Networks. It's been a good experience until I started getting more traffic, so I switched to FutureQuest for a few months. After getting hammered with traffic at the end of 2006 and told I needed to upgrade, I jumped ship to Media Temple. The blog network I have joined, 9rules, has worked out a partnership deal with mt for member hosting at a discount.

Graphics

Most of the site and its graphics are created by and © by me.

The photography is on this site is also © by me. Gotta put that digital camera to use. It's a Canon G2. As of December 2006, I'm now also shooting with a smaller camera, a Fuji FinePix F30.

Um, more when I think of what to say.