Blogging

This post has been sitting around in my drafts for a while.

A few people has talked about finding stuff out on my blog. Their is a few ground rules that I keep telling everyone when they ask me about it.

1: I never, ever use last names. Come on, I know people can read this from anywhere. Only first names.

2: Don’t put in too much detail. If you don’t work with me and you read some entries you might go “what the hell is he talking about” Due to the nature of some of the stuff I do, I write some entries in such a way that you most likely wont have a clue what I am really talking about unless you have a frame of reference. You might think I am eluding to something, but I am ambiguous. That is the idea some of the time. Deal with it. On the other hand if you are at work or are a friend of mine, and you read something and “get it”, and ask how did I put that on the internet? You have to realize that most other people won’t “get it” so it is probably ok to write about. Remember this blog is more for me than for anyone else. Half the time you may be reading this and have no clue as to what I am talking about, or think I ramble on. That is true, deal with that also!

3: I am a very direct person. If someone does something and is a total ass to me I might not just write (person X was an ass today). This is published people, I will be politically correct, or reserved with my comments to keep things civil, if possible. if something/someone was awesome or did something cool, I will say so. I try not to be too negative.

4: No pictures of me on my site. Of me at least. I remember back in the day when people had a picture of themselves on their website. Not going to happen. I may have pictures of me on my photo blog, but nothing staring out at you when you read this blog.

5. Probably more to discuss but I think I covered the main points…

I predicted it. I said when I no longer spend an hour on the rail road each day I would be blogging less. Unfortunately it is true. I haven’t wrote an entry for almost 2 weeks. I still have plenty to say. I still like blogging, but I don’t want it to take up time when I could be doing something else. that was why train time was perfect.

I am now putting several drafts of things I would like to talk about into ecto (my blogging software) and writing about them when I have a chance. I have been really busy (always say that) recently with work and settling in after my move.

More soon…

I have said many times that I get most of my blogging done on the rail road into work every day. I don’t do it every day, but most days. That will soon change. Since I am moving, I will not be taking the rail road to work after the middle of July. That is good. But that means no more train blogging. I wont be blogging from the subway. I will hopefully find time at night to blog here and there. I doubt that the move is the death kneel to my blogging efforts but it will slow it down a bit.

As it is now I don’t write about everything I want to. I just don’t have enough time. What I do write about is usually condensed so I can move onto the next topic. Maybe quality is better than quantity but I want to get what is in my head out onto “paper”.

My awesome blog hosting company (cheesy suck up attempt) was down today for a while. We are obviously back online now. No word on exactly why the outage happened. Well actually I do know but I don’t know if they wanted the reason public knowledge!

I also learned that we may be moving to a new blog software. This is partially due to Moveabletype’s change in their licensing for the new version 3.0. More details on that when it happens.

Just in case I backed up my entries again today. I don’t do that often enough. I usually do it monthly. I should do it weekly since I do put time into writing these entries. My rambling is not reproducible so I need to keep it backed up when I can.

This blog entry was written while listening to Superman Kryptonite by Three Doors Down

This blog is running on Moveabletype. It is an awesome piece of software. You should read their own company blog they started. It is a nice insight on a tech company.

Moveabletype runs run’s on linux if you didn’t know that already. For me Linux is still the wild west. I need to learn allot. With Gus’ help I got Moveabletype working on a Red Hat box when I first started this blog. For the past 6 months or so I have been running the blog off of Gus’ Mandrake Linux server. I had issues with my cable modem and using 2 box’s for web sites. I needed an IIS box for something and the port forwarding to the linux box was messy. it worked but I didn’t like to see the :port# in the URL.

Now with moveabletype 3.0 coming out this sprint (or so) I want to build another linux box to run my blog on. Gus’ machine is stable, and works great, but I am a tech guy. I should be able to host all my own stuff. I will need to overcome the same port forwarding issues I had before but now I have the resolve to figure them out, or so I hope.

This means breaking out the old dell desktop in my closet out and configuring my KVM again. This means less desk space and a messy living room again, but it also means I can be more flexible and have another server. If I can do this in VMWare I will, but I don’t know if I am ready to do a “production” system in VMWare yet. Hey, it may be my site, but it is a production environment to me. Updates on what I do as I do them!!!

This blog entry was written while listening to 100 Years from the album “The Battle For Everything” by Five for Fighting and Sympathy from the album “Gutterflower” by Goo Goo Dolls

I am actually using this MoBlog by Textamerica. It is fun taking pictures and sending them off to the web. During the week I realize that things are repetitive. I have a routine. I take the train to work, get breakfast, goto work. Then I take the train home. That is what I will be taking pictures of, since that is what I do 5 days a week! I have already found some interesting things to snap. I am waiting for the novelty of the whole photo taking thing to wear off, but it hasn’t yet.

It has been one year since I first tried this blogging thing out. I can’t believe it has been a year. I have done journals before, but never for this long. I actually like sitting down and writing about what is on my mind or what is going on in my life. On this one year anniversary of my blogging adventure I say this is still cool.

I hope that I continue on with the blogging endeavor for another year.