Posted by timgoh
on Monday, January 21
Alright, I’m back. Not quite completely settled in Los Angeles yet, but I’m getting there.
ProgProg will be a whole new blog in 2008. Don’t believe me?
Just the infrastructure alone:
- Typo -> Mephisto
- Dreamhost -> Slicehost
The second change is not in response to their latest billing fiasco (although it did shock me because I was planning to leave anyway and I suddenly got stuck with a huge bill). It’s just that I haven’t needed that much hand-holding on the server side for a long time, and the increased flexibility of my own VPS appealed to me.
Topic matter will change as well. As I mentioned in my previous post, I won’t be writing too much about Python and Django anymore (I do have a post brewing on Django, but it won’t be a “Django is a Ghetto” entry1).
Once again apologies for the break – I’m back and good to go.
1 See here if you don’t get the reference.
Posted by timgoh
on Sunday, February 11
There was a distinct lack of personal touch in my previous entry, no? I’ve been playing around with del.icio.us more recently as I tried to reorganize the way I process information. More on that in the future.
And I found this nifty feature (which their naming committee took great pains to christen – it’s called a “thingy”). You can enable it by “Daily Blog Posting” under the Settings menu. Just feed it the name/pass for your blog and an address to XMLRPC to. Then every day at a time of your choosing it posts the links you’ve added that day for you.
There’s just one thing I don’t like about this feature—your blog password is displayed in plaintext in your list of thingies. Strange design decision there.
Another caveat of this feature is that it brings my del.icio.us habits into the spotlight. I can just imagine the Joneses whispering away:
“What a convoluted and inconsistent tagging methodology Tim has! Tsk tsk”
“Tim’s del.icio.us usage has dropped recently. Do you think he’s been cheating with ma.gnolia?”
