TechProsaic

I write about great software, Internet technology, cool gadgets, and The Next Big Thing.

September 5th, 2007

Site changes

Some random web loser had nasty things to say about my web design skills (which I never purported to be all that), so I went out and snagged a new Wordpress template. I do like this one a lot better. It’s called Tiga by Shamsul Azhar. It’s a lot less busy on the eyeballs. Please bear with me whilst I tune it. I’m definitely going to work on the header a bit.

Also this made me realize that my original site sub-title is now (and has been for some time), pretty meaningless. I don’t really talk about web design anymore. That’s kinda an older hobby of mine that others do better at anyhow.

If anyone’s got a better tagline for my site, please offer it up!

Last thoughts:

  • Latest Harry Potter book–liked it a lot. It was much better than ‘Cats’.
  • Lotus Notes–still can’t stand it, but I’ve kinda sorta come to terms with it. I could seriously write a book about how awful this transition has been (and continues to be), but I don’t think I will. Instead, I’m going to see just how well the Notes User Experience team will listen to some random guy in Atlanta.
  • Powershell and VMWare–that’s where my next scripting effort lies. I’m considering making a VMWare Server toolkit of sorts, then will follow it up with one for ESX Server. More to come on that soon(-ish).
February 27th, 2007

Microsoft Live Writer

Windows

Quick blog post to test Microsoft’s Live Writer software.  Pretty neat feature to insert maps.  Therefore I thought I’d point out where we stayed and skiied last week.  :)

 

The condo

 

Mt. Werner

 

And here’s a screenshot of Live Writer itself:

I’ve played with several tools over the years that use an XML-RPC API in order to remotely author blog posts, but for some reason I never stuck with any.  We’ll see how this one goes.  One thing I really liked was that once I gave it my blog URL and credentials, it figured out all the settings it needed.

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June 2nd, 2006

PENDULUMECA[ペンデュラメカ]

As seen on Download.com’s time wasters: PENDULUMECA[ペンデュラメカ]. (I like having this Asides thing.)

June 2nd, 2006

Sabifoo Jabber to RSS gateway

Jabber

Sabifoo :: Instant Possibility
You can instantly create your own Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed and post things to the Web just by sending a message with your present instant messaging account. Publishing your greetings to the world is as simple as saying “Hello!”

Sabifoo is essentially a bot that posts everything you say as an item in your very own RSS feed. It supports IM systems other than XMPP, but I’ll quietly pretend it doesn’t. :)

I can see using this for a shoutbox on my blog…hmm…

May 29th, 2006

Playing with new blog theme

Found this neat thing called Canvas. It’s a meta-theme, or maybe a CMS for Wordpress. Cool stuff anyhow, you should check it out.

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