WordPress, Time Obsessions

Finally got around to upgrad­ing WordPress to 3.0.1, and it seems much nicer than the 2.9.2 ver­sion I was using. I also switched away from the old fcgid con­fig­u­ra­tion, and dumped the cus­tom Lifestream – based theme which I used to have in favor of a nor­mal blog, and a theme I down­loaded. It just wasn’t worth …

Thoughts on Privacy

This post is pretty heavy on the pon­tif­i­cat­ing, but I’ll tie it back into GNOME at the end, I swear. I’ve been think­ing quite a bit about pri­vacy lately. Most of the shiny things here on the inter­net are some type of ser­vice where you aban­don some degree of pri­vacy to an inter­me­di­ary in return for …

Status Report

I’ve fin­ished read­ing How to Lose Your Altruism How to Win Friends and Influence People, and the review is up. Also upgraded to WordPress 2.7, although since I’m using my own cus­tom theme the changes will be all on the back­end. I attempted to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my Macbook, which failed pretty spec­tac­u­larly. The …

Sellin’ Out

So I’ve got Adsense on my blog now, hope­fully in a taste­ful way. I’m wrestling with doing the feeds as well, but that’s a more ugly prospect: adverts on my own site are one thing, hav­ing them show up in aggre­ga­tion on PGO, for exmaple is an anti-social other. (Yes, this is me mak­ing my …