Archive for the ‘ blogging ’ Category

Grinding

The Real Reason Blogging is Hard [via Weblog Tools Collection]. It’s the grind. I’ve been more consistent these past few months, but no where near as prolific as i’d like. I have so many ideas. Some get started and abandoned as drafts. Some never even make it that far. I write too slowly, because i [ READ MORE ]

The Spoils Of WordPress 2.0.1 & Akismet

WordPress 2.0.1 is alive and kicking on miahz.com. The upgrade from 1.5.3 went hitchless[ly?]. Initial impressions: i like the cleaner admin interface, the abbridged reverse-order drafts list, the Akismet plugin included by default, along with all the other i’ve-been-spoiled-by-wordpress.com features like in situ file uploading and on-the-fly new categories. I’m especially relieved by the prospect [ READ MORE ]

Welcome Home, miahz.com

Well, i finally got around to doing a little remodeling. If you’re expecting to see the LCD page, it has moved to miahz.com/projects/lcd/. Now the WordPress-powered blog which used to live at the undiscoverable URL http://miahz.com/index.php is at the root, which should make things flow much better around here. I’m wondering if and hoping that [ READ MORE ]

WordPress 2.0.1 Soon?

Just took a look at the WordPress 2.0.1 roadmap, and 99% of the issues flagged for 2.0.1 are resolved with only one remaining [via Ryan on WordPress]. So hopefully we’ll have a bugfix after not too long. I’ve been wanting to move up, but jumping onto a point-zero release can be sketchy sometimes. technorati tags: [ READ MORE ]

The Firefox Extensions I Must Have

As i prep to upgrade my home box to Firefox 1.5 i’m making sure all my must-have extensions are 1.5 compatible. Last i checked, many weren’t, which is why i didn’t upgrade right away. But now it looks like most have been updated, so here they are[ READ MORE ]

The Years