The WordPress for iPhone app completely slays TypePad’s.
The question now is, when isTumblr laying down its card?
The sight of a familiar globe in iTunes is actually quite refreshing.
Welcome to the third world, iTunes Store.
iTunes 7.7 (out for just a few hours now) added a nifty little “MobileMe Preferences” icon to Windows Vista’s Control Panel (also on XP). iTunes on Mac OS X 10.5.4 doesn’t have this yet, and I find it quaint that Windows users get the portal to MobileMe first.
As I post this, I still couldn’t sign in with my .mac MobileMe ID - not in my part of the world, at least. The wait for the second coming carries on.
bradgeiser in response to CrazyBeautiful - Plurk.com
It pains me to play the part once again of the anti-Mac zealot, but there’s no denying the wisdom in those words.
This blog post brought to you by the guy whose primary email address ends in .mac -
From Myths of Snow Leopard 7: Free?! — RoughlyDrafted Magazine by Daniel Eran Dilger
Mac bigotry at its finest: sweeping generalizations backed by nothing more than their cult devotion to the Church of Steve. Last time I checked, the Enterprise comprised the majority of Microsoft’s customers. I work in the Enterprise and I make these decisions to purchase hundreds of Windows computers in one fell swoop - at that rate, the price of Windows is almost dispensible.
For the most part, Daniel Eran Dilger writes one of the (if not the) best Apple commentary and puts together very good observations on Apple’s strategies and dynamics. Every so often, it’s comforting to be reminded that it doesn’t take a whole lot to fall for the fanboy trap that is Apple bigotry. No, not even Daniel Dilger whose writing I hold at a notch higher than most.
Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Wont Embrace Microsofts Windows Vista »
And so it continues. The media yakking on and on about how bad Vista is. Granted, the number of individuals who prefer Vista over XP all over the world could be counted in one hand (myself included), but seriously, how since when did we consider “Company X decides Vista is a lemon” to be news? It appears that even mainstream media blogs (this is NY Times, for crying out loud) have jumped the shark.
Vista, you are one convenient target. I feel for you.
Starting over (yet again)
So the theory goes, the dieties of blogging are conspiring against allowing me to keep a blog running for longer than six months. Sometime in the past month, my webhost moved to a new server and it came with a little note that I needed to make changes to my domain registrar. So I did the little NS-change dance and something got majorly screwed in the process; the short of it is: the poor blog was beyond help. The database is still there and intact (boy, I hope it is), but I kept getting errors about something that does not completely redirecting or whatever.
A friend (who happens to be a WordPress guru) thought it was something about some .htaaccess file issues, but (1) I’m too tired of WordPress - flexible as it is, it’s has this Frankensteinian feel to the whole thing, it’s a surprise that the whole thing - WordPress base install + plug-ins + badly-coded themes - actually works pretty well when it does; (2) WordPress has this intimidating effect that distracts from creative writing; (3) I was hosted for free and I was not particularly comfortable about the degree of customer service I felt I was entitiled to. For the record, it’s absolutely generous of Gail to host my blog for free, for life; but it’s freeloader situations like that that I have the least liking for. I have no issues paying for services because it comes with the expectation of good customer service.
(Read: I did have a backup but it’s either corrupted as well - lesson learned the hard way: non-offsite backups are as good as not having a backup at all- or I’m really just an incompetent WordPress user; I highly doubt my host had backups of my blog though, and I’m too much of a wimp to request assistance when I am, as I mentioned, already being hosted for free)
I was going to do what I’ve always done, i.e., set up yet another WordPress blog, when I chanced on this theme by Paul Giacherio and that somehow made a tumblelog all the more enticing. That, on top of the ease of updating and raw nature of tumblelogs (which blogs were about not a long time ago, and what got me started way before “blog” was even coined). FastFact: I initially fought the word “blog” because I thought it sounded gaudy and amateurish, not much unlike how I fought Twitter and Plurk when they first came out - which has a completely different story of its own.
Aside: I think I need to get rid of my habit of saying “TLD” when referring to what’s simply a domain; as in “get your own TLD” when I really mean to say “get your own dot-com”, where the “com” part is technically what the TLD is. Why this is so is because while ICANN (the majordomo of all dot-com and dot-whatever addresses) used to limit what can be used as TLD’s (.com, .net, .org, .tv and .fm, etc.) - and now they appear to have had a change of heart, and will allow custom TLD’s such as http://molly.wood (not the sleazy pr0n actress, mind you). That is, as long as you can prove that you are technically capable of maintaining a top-level domain, and that’s not exactly the most difficult thing in the world either (and yet again I managed to segue into oblivion as I write this).
Feel free to look around and make yourself at home in my new (tumble-)blog.
