A couple months ago I started another blog that was inspired by the “Security Tips” page I had here. I thought it was a good idea at the time, or, at least, I thought my concept for it was funny enough to shell out ~$10 for a domain name. Guess we’ll have to see if it goes anywhere.
OMG, MASSIVE COMPUTER NERDINESS AHEAD. YOU ARE WARNED.
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Damn. It. All. Why does this always happen when I have a bunch of other, more pressing, issues going on?
I came home yesterday after lunch and the computer was powered off, with that awesome tell-tale “burnt electronics” smell emanating from its general area.
I can order a new one for about the same price (heh, including Windows 7) as it would cost me to replace the borken parts of the current one. The choice seems fairly obvious.
This will also give me a chance to do that long-delayed update from Kubuntu 8 to Kubuntu 10. And give me an excuse to buy a new monitor. And an external HD dock. And install VirtualBox so I can have Windows as a guest OS instead of rebooting every time we need Windows for something.
Benny just published a post on her site about WP and caching. It makes me chuckle to think about, because essentially the web has come full-circle.
The web was first populated by sites that were all static html pages.
Then, someone thought of using databases and a whole bunch of other neat things to make websites “dynamic” – meaning, you didn’t have to spend hours tediously re-writing static html to make a change across your whole site.
Then, these dynamic sites were great, but if the site was popular, then you needed to back it up with a shit-ton of hardware and load balancing and etc, etc in case you had a lot of visitors.
Now, caching (turning the dynamic site back into simple static html) keeps sites light and serving to millions of visitors.
Strange, innit?
So, my Blackberry, the phone-that-does-everything that I wanted for so long, is now pissing me off. I’ve had it for a little over a year and I’m finding it less useful and more annoying every day.
When my contract is up, I think I’m just going to go back to a basic, non-smart, cheap-as-I-can-get phone.
Just installed the new WordPress app on my Blackberry. This should prove to be fun.
Already found at least 1 problem, not all of my ‘Pages’ show up in the page list. Seems like it picked 5 random ones out of the 16 I have (total, I have 6 published, 6 drafts, and 4 private).