The Meta-Post
I keep playing around with the visual theme on this blog, trying to find one I’m happy with. The previous theme was certainly lick-able, but a little heavy in the graphics and images department. I also think I just like playing around in php, which I am required to do anytime I change themes. After dealing with C/Objective-C/C++ all day, its nice to program in a high level scripting language, even as cryptic as php can be. Anyway, I settled on this theme, Rusty, because I like gradients, which apparently are the “in” thing nowadays, and if I’m anything, its not “in”. Unless you’re talking about the OpenDoc Anonymous Support Group.
Hi, my name is Andy, and I like Cyberdog.
Anyway, I’m going to stay with this theme for the foreseeable future. Which will probably turn out to be about more five minutes. I have important work I need to ignore, I’ll have you know.
In other exciting meta news, I got all of the posts and comments from my other blogs moved over to this one. Now you can ignore them all from one convenient location. The previous blogs over at Blogger are now officially deprecated. If you visit them now, you will get a compiler warning stating that they are deprecated, as soon as I work out the technical details of why anyone would care. You will notice, however, that unlike Apple, I have not only given you a replacement for those blogs, but the replacement has the same functionality and more. Take that, the hand that feeds me.
The feature that really got me over to Wordpress were categories/tags. Since this blog is really a merging of two previous blogs, it was really important that I could sort out the trash from the garbage. And it gave me a new toy to play with, which is super important when you’re an engineer. These pointless ramblings don’t categorize themselves, I’ll have you know. It takes excess free time and a strong stomach for bad writing. Braver men have been bored to tears trying.
I originally tried Wordpress with the free hosting at Wordpress.com. It was nice and all, but it wouldn’t let me edit the theme templates. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So we have this blog software, that’s open source and downloadable from many locations, and we’ll host it for you, but dear God, whatever you do, don’t look at the source!! Apparently, the sight of php code makes non-programmers go blind and/or turn into nerds. And you can’t just go around unleashing that sort of destruction on just anyone. They have to be paying customers.
I’m hosting this site with DreamHost, which, despite the name, did not net me any extra nocturnal unconscious escapades. I would write and complain, but, once again, the posts do not categorize themselves. The nice thing about DreamHost is they have Ruby on Rails hosting, which is something I’ve been playing around with. If you know anything about web frameworks you know that Ruby on Rails is vital for rattling off all the buzzwords you know, and ignoring any real work you might have. That’s my excuse anyway.