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Weblogs — 14 Comments
27
Jan 07

moving to wordpress

okay, i’ve decided to move from typepad to wordpress (hosted at dreamhost, which seems fantastic so far), and am making a few decisions. my experimental blog is here for the moment, but it’ll change. (the hardest part so far seems to be finding a domain name. yikes.)

anyhoo, the thing i’m wrestling with now is where to store pictures. kathy’s put a ton of sam’s pictures on sam’s typepad-hosted blog, but that’s part of the reason we’re moving — their options are super-limited for how you display photos. part of me thinks we should just put everything on flickr or photobucket and link from the new dreamhost site — but part of me thinks we should host all our own stuff, as there’s really no practical size limitation on dreamhost’s plans, and then use gallery or some other photo sharing server software.

anyone have thoughts?

(incidentally, i’m thinking that getting all our photo links moved over from typepad, and the photos as well, is going to be a big pain.)

Personal stuff / Weblogs — Comments Off
8
Dec 06

tough to watch

i’m not an overly emotional guy in terms of reacting to news on the web or tv. but the story of james kim, a 35 year old father in the same industry & location as me, is just incredibly tough to watch. it’s hard to even think about. they had to make some of life’s most challenging decisions as a family last week, and what he tried to do blows me away. here’s a video about him that cnet posted.

Design / Weblogs — 12 Comments
15
Nov 06

typepad

i’m finding typepad harder & harder to love lately. the web-based UI seems like it’s always slow, the photo uploading for sam’s blog is about 2 years behind anyone else, and it costs money every month to run as well. starting to think about moving, but it’s a little stickier than i want, to be honest. i’ve got about 3 years of posts in typepad now, not to mention nearly a year and a half of videos & pictures of the little guy. but it’s still just hard to stay on typepad. i’m taking a bit of time off next week; think i’m going to do the evaluation. any ideas? (and if you’ve got suggestions, would really like suggestions on how to move the mass of content that i’ve got, too.)

basic requirements, though, are this:

- want to be able to run my own blog, plus sam’s blog

- want to have a feature-rich, easy to use + gallery-ize picture capability — with easy integration to iphoto

- want to make it as easy as possible to put up video from our DV camera — videoegg currently is the easiest to do importing; it also has integration with typepad

and free would be nice. :-)

thoughts?

Design / Weblogs — Comments Off
27
Oct 06

totally sidetracked today…

sometimes it happens. 2 from john maeda’s blog (which i stumbled on from diego’s):

- on technologist v humanist

- on freaky MIT trees (by my friend Ben Fry)

enough with the bloglinking. going to finish cleaning out my mailbox & go home.

Personal stuff / Weblogs — 7 Comments
13
Jul 06

back to blogging

okay, it’s been about 3 weeks since i’ve written anything, but i’m going to try to write a bunch more in the coming days. been thinking about a lot of things lately across the board, have a trip coming up to Tokyo, and just a lot going on. so watch this space.

in the meantime, here’s a bit of a speech by Ted Stevens, my favorite cranky, crazy Senator from Alaska about the Internet. it would be really funny if he weren’t in charge of the committee who’s regulating it.

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially…

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck.

It’s a series of tubes.

And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

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