Back up and running

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Aug 192011
 

Finally took the time to get this blog back up and running. This time though I’m hosting it myself from the house using our iMac. Wait, did you hear me correctly? Yep, you can indeed set up your normal Mac as a webserver if you have decent upstream bandwidth from your ISP.

The downside to this is that since I also sometimes boot that machine into Windows to play certain games then the site will be inaccessible. I think a small price to pay for the cost savings over even a cheap shared hosting plan.

Aug 182011
 

These are my latest links bookmarked on Pinboard

Habari

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Feb 272009
 

This site is running Habari, a state-of-the-art publishing platform! Habari is a community-driven project created and supported by people from all over the world. Please visit http://habariproject.org/ to find out more!

Site Changes

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Nov 062007
 

Well you might notice a few changes around here. I used to have 3 separate WordPress blogs on my domain. One was used primarily for personal and tech stuff, one was primarily used by my fiance to post her cooking exploits, and one was purely poker related.

Well neither of us really post all that much and each time WordPress would release a new version it was pretty much a pain in the ass to upgrade all 3 installs. So I decided to just go ahead and combine them into one blog. They all used the same theme anyway with just color variations. Some of my family doesn’t really understand my interest in poker but since I never really was trying to monetize that blog anyway, they can deal with hearing about it. For those of you who know me from the poker world, hopefully you won’t mind hearing more about my fairly boring life. If you had been subscribing to a feed, you’ll need to delete it and start again with the feedburner link to the bottom right.

Oh and Astin, I don’t know if you had ever stopped by my blog before but I think you and Stephanie could swap a few good recipes!

Alternative Blogging Tool

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Nov 062007
 

I’m posting this using the MarsEdit blogging tool. I actually have a license to the previous version of this software from a bundle but ended up using Ecto instead. A new version of MarsEdit has been released from a new developer that has taken the project over. It seems to add a few features such as Flickr integration that make it seem viable for me so I decided to give it another try.

Compared to Ecto 2, MarsEdit appears to be a much cleaner layout. Ecto 3 is closer but you have to appreciate the simple beauty of MarsEdit. For beginning bloggers there might be a little bit more of a learning curve with MarsEdit though as it does not appear to provide a rich text editing option. So you are creating your posts in HTML. It has a simple drop down with basic things like links and paragraphs to help you along though.

It’s too early to say for sure if I’m going to go ahead and pay the $9.99 upgrade price and start using MarsEdit exclusively but I’m going to give it a shot for the 30 day trial and see how it goes.