Geekery Updates and Such
Things only my geeky friends will care about:
1. I’ve updated this blog to WordPress 2.0. I’ve always been a HUGE fan of tiny MCE and the good folks at WP have now built it into the latest version. I’ve been meaning to do it myself for a while but I never got around to it. Yeah for them for having more time and initiative than I do.
2. Unfortunately there were two causalities of the upgrade. Live+Press, which synced my blog to Livejournal and Kitten’s Spaminator, which kept me free of comment spam. These have been replaced by Livejournal Cross poster and Akismet respectively. My impressions are good, although Livejournal Cross poster is clearly pretty beta at this point, but it gets the job done.
3. BSG (Battlestar Galactica for those not in-the-know) season 2 resumes tonight! Woooohoooo!
4. I had to do a complete format and re-install on my work machine. I didn’t heed my own advice and turn it off over X-mas break. A domain administrator’s password was compromised (not mine I might add) and when I got back to the office on Jan 3rd my machine was happily serving up warez and midget porn to the l33t community at large.
The silver lining is I’ve really gone to town with the latest and greatest release candidates of all of my favorite software. It took some fudging about to find the proper plugins and extensions that would work with Firefox 1.5 but now that it’s all happy I’m quite pleased.
Long live the free software movement and to hell with Microsoft (they don’t even get a link)!
January 6th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Is this Ian who knows Andrew? This is a fan who saw your posts years ago, and my friends are trying to figure it all out!! We are friends of Debbie Key, and still don’t know where she is. Please say Hi and know that we are friendly, and not out to hurt anyone.
January 7th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Hi!
Thanks for the note. My e-mail address is on the resume pages (both of them), feel free to drop me a line if you’d like to chat about it all. Although honestly I feel I summed up my feelings on thge whole thing pretty well a year ago in this post:
http://www.ianknox.net/?p=82
January 10th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
Hey - this is Evan, the guy that wrote LJXP.
Just so I don’t make the system opt-out instead of opt-in, if you send me an e-mail (my address is in the sidebar on most pages of my site), I’ll add you to the notification list for new releases.
In the mean time, I hope to release a major upgrade that will add a lot of new features. If you could take a look at the list of things that remain to be implimented on the LJXP page and let me know of anything you’d like to see that’s not there, that’d be awesome.
- Evan