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- July 16, 2006
Increasing My Website Opportunities
July 16, 2006Read moreFor the past couple of weeks, I’ve focused on making the website a little easier to grasp. It’s been a fairly organic process, which in itself is something of a breakthrough for me; in the past, I would have obsessed about getting everything just right first, but then I wouldn’t have had a website. And that’s the way it was for 5 or 6 years: a few half-finished, empty shells taking up space on a server.
I thought it would be interesting to catalog what I’ve done. Being in business for myself is continuously challenging, exciting, and at times scary. I find sharing what I’ve been up to be a good way of reviewing and assessing what I’ve done.
- July 14, 2006
Editable Comments and WP Cache 2.0
July 14, 2006Read moreI’ve been making various improvements to my WordPress installation, hopefully making it a little easier to play here on Better Living through New Media. One long-standing peeve was the lack of user-editable comments. I had seen Andrew Sutherland’s Edit Comments Plugin before, but had put off installing it because the post warned of the “complex modifications” needed to your theme files. As it turns out it actually isn’t bad, but I had to fix a compatibility issue with WP Cache 2.0 to get it to work right on my install of WordPress 2.0.3.
Geeky notes follow.
- July 14, 2006
Reader Question: Moleskines and Weekly Goals
July 14, 2006Read moreTrying something new here: reposting a reader’s comment as a question that I thought would be interesting to discuss.
Todd writes (slightly reformatted/reworded by me):
I started using GTD – and found I am too hectic for it – though some of the rules and the tickler do work great for me. I have also started trying out the PCEO, and have a question.
- I want to try and get everything into Moleskine notebooks. and I am concerned with running out of pages in a particular section.
- Goals have tasks (top level).
- Top level tasks then have lots of subtasks.
- I also have random notes, and task related notes.
Moleskine Expansion
I’m afraid I don’t have any suggestions for hole to expand a Moleskine notebook. Do they need to be Moleskine? What is it about Moleskine that makes it an essential part of your system plan?
- July 13, 2006
Google Maps Scrollwheel Zooming!
July 13, 2006Read moreI was looking up something on Google maps, and I used the mouse scroll wheel to scroll down the page. Except this time, it zoomed in on the map in realtime! And the developers even implemented it correctly, by zooming in on the current mouse pointer, not toward the center of the screen. The last program that I used that did this well was DeluxePaint, back in 1986; there are a few others that implement it, but they tend to be subtly broken. 3D modeling programs also tend to have this, but zooming in 3 dimensions is a bit trickier to predict.
- July 13, 2006
Good, Cheap Subversion Hosting?
July 13, 2006Read moreThis is a geeky posting; some of you may wish to avert your eyes :-)
I’m running my Subversion server off my cable modem connection, using dynamic DNS to allow outside peeps to get in. I’m thinking of hosting some source code examples publically, and am thus seeking a hosted subversion solution that’s:
- Inexpensive (w/ multiple users and multiple projects)
- Reliable (availability, backed up)
- Usable web interface (that is not ugly or confusing)
- Issue tracking a bonus (if it doesn’t suck)
Thought I’d ask to see if anyone had any strong opinions on this. Assume inexpensive means free to maybe 10 bucks a month. A service that has multiple levels of service and ease of upgrade/downgrade would probably be ideal.
I’ll post what I find in a few days.
