Category Archives: about the blog

standard blog post procedure here: the next 48 hours will see a guaranteed 20 minute downtime plus some occasional glitching while I upgrade the server I’m hosted on and upgrade some software, notably WordPress, which runs this blog. The upgrade will literally cost double what I’m paying now, but will allow me increased storage from [...]

web trends 2007

located somewhere in the East End, north of a Social Networks tributary, near some news sites we’ve never heard of, in the vicinity of a loop-d-loop and just to the east of a junction of Sharing and Tools, you’ll find normalblog. Listed as a ’station’, it’s odd, because we have absolutely no connection to the [...]

WordPress is great.
I finally got crackin’ on those changes I mentioned over two weeks ago. Actually, I’ve had these changes in place for over two weeks, but just haven’t gotten around to clicking that left mouse button!
the first incarnation of the blog was an attempt to understand how to setup a database, install the software, [...]

every blog does it

well, that time has come.
for me to spam my own blog and let everyone know that some changes will be happening ’round these parts over the next 24-48 hours. I hope it won’t interrupt service too much but some of the code I’m running on now is already outdated (9 months old) and needs to [...]

personal achievements, however they are measured, are a simple way to remind oneself to keep going. my ‘digital achievements’ are exactly that - is it worth it? do i keep going? are my energies being exhausted without return? it’s not a financial concern - no matter what, I’ll keep pouring and pouring financial resources into [...]

well you know you’re on to something when you’ve been linked in Wikipedia!
And I’m not talking about an ‘article’ about me or you or anything like that. en dot wikipedia dot org forward-slash wiki forward-slash ‘insert_article_name_here’. All that stuff is pretty straightforward. Nope nope nope, I’m talking about something which to me is much more [...]