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by Bill on May.13, 2009, under Uncategorized
…because I am moving to Swiftcurrent Reflections 2.0. Hopefully, everything will stay the same. http://billanderson.name will still take you to the right place, and I hope you wont even have to change your RSS feed, for those cool cats who use RSS readers, but if you don’t see any updates for a week or so, check back here and resubscribe.
Technical Mumbojumbo: Since January 2005 I have been using Blogger, the Google owned blogging tool. It’s easy and gets the job done, but it always had problems FTPing data over to my server. People who host their blog right on Blogger’s servers, like Meg, don’t have this issue.
My solution? Start running Wordpress. This software runs right on my server and has a lot more flexibility and options than Blogger. It’s more complicated to set up, but will hopefully be worth it in the end.
Hopefully, everything just doesn’t explode…
May 13th, 2009 on 8:51 pm
So, if I understand this correctly, you will host your own blog at your house? Looking at the requirements for WordPress, you need a server on your network. Sounds cool, but maybe you can dumb it down a bit for me. This really intrigues me, and will be sure to read more information thanks to your helpful links.
As far as your comment on the Kindle goes. I too can read PDF, but I have to email them to my Kindle, which has a charge. I have not read that much about the larger screen Kindle 2 but is that free on that version? If so, that would do wonders for me on the plan as I try to read admin guides and other lame PDF’s for work.
May 18th, 2009 on 3:57 pm
YAY! You’ve joined the Wordpress revolution. I really liked it best about, oh, 8 iterations ago, but I think you’ll like it way more than blogger.
Altho … and I hate to bring this up … but your template is hard to read what with the small type and reversed out text ….