These comment plugins have really screwed up the wp-admin side of things, and the longer I held off on trying to fix it (which required me to just delete the plugin folder) the longer it took me to get back to this blogging thing.
Screw the commenting systems, let’s go old school and do it like we used to in the 90s.
Wow, I’m old.
Just in case my not writing here wasn’t clue enough, stuffs on hiatus.
And comments are finally really closed. I’ll figure out a better way to keep in touch with you.
Probably going to keep WordPress around for a while though. I may get the urge to write something worthwhile to share.
Glad to get a chance to get off the crap that is Feedburner.
Not sure why it’s broken right now, but I’d much rather go with a homegrown solution in the long run, anyway.
Regardless, I’ll let you know when I’m done tinkering here. Well, not done but when I’m moderately satisfied with how things are here.
That was painless. Coming to you from the servers at Rackspace.
In the meanwhile, I did some moving with my domains as well. Good riddance, GoDaddy. I am now with the lesser of two evils, NameCheap. They haven’t done anything to anger me too much yet. UI isn’t completely retarded like GoDaddy’s is.
It’s that time again. Now I’m moving to Rackspace hosting, graciously offered to me by Derek Remund.
Derek, me know how you want me to link you on the Internetz, btw.
Site’s probably going to down for a day, but hopefully it’ll be back up sooner than that.
BRB.
Whatever you do will be different.
The choices you make to add or subtract, hopefully more of the latter, will effect the final product.
So writing yet another blog engine? No. Journaling engine? Eh… need a better name for what I’m attempting to write.
Gotta figure out what I want specifically and then figure out how I’m going to migrate into this system without breaking too many things.
September 25th was when I started on WebFaction. It’ll be a good date to close out this blog. A little more than three months left.
First, it was the feed ads that went away. Then, it was two of the three page ads that followed.
Today, I have no more Google AdSense to clutter up my stuff.
More changes coming soon. Except I will be on the iPad for the next couple of days.
You’re probably going to see this post as soon as I hit publish. I’m almost certain PubSubHubbub went live today on Google Reader.
There was a period of some weird instability with Google Reader earlier today, and I think there was something more than recommendation that hit.
Well, this changes my plans a tiny bit.
Considering some drastic changes here, and I might be changing blogging engines.
As soon as an export tool was written by Marco Arment, Tumblr became one of the candidates.
On and off, I have been blogging (and tumblogging just should be a word, and I’ll stick to this stance like I did against the word “blogging”) at joshkim.tumblr.com. If you’d like, you can follow to me there.
Things are definitely all up in the air, but you can bet I’ll be blogging it when it all falls down on the floor.
The initial spark of inspiration fades quickly over time.
In high school, I happened upon a hidden cache of matchbooks. Completely disobeying the familiar warning of not playing with matches, I started lighting them on fire, one by one.
Then I got curious. I wondered what would happen if I set a whole bunch of match heads on fire at the same time, rather than doing so one by one. So, I took one match, ignited it, and set the rest of the matches in the matchbook on fire.
Something awesome happened. The sucker exploded into flames.
The spark could be something small. In this case, it was thinking about indie games again which got me to record a podcast episode.
The spark could be something big. One example of this would be to write a feed reader to replace my need for Google Reader.
At the beginning, things seem so wonderfully exciting. You’re ready to start something new. And then you wait. Whatever the reason, you start to wait. And then wait some more.
The need for perfection? The lack of prioritization? The lack of focus? The crippling side-effect of freedom? For me, it’s been all of the above.
By acting on the inspiration quickly before the spark dies, you cause more sparks with greater intensity to appear, which carries you onto the next phase.
And with this realization, I push on.