Thursday, January 12, 2006

Here we are, almost two years later ...

Last time I posted here, I was writing C++ code to do document analysis and display for reading machines, for a kiwi company.  Now, I'm writing PHP code to publish and aggregate structured content, for a Californian company.

In a few months I'll have been blogging for four years.  How things have changed over that time...

... and yet, how things have stayed the same.  Four years ago I was using Radio, typing in its WYSIWYG editor and communcating with the web server running on my desktop.  Now Wordpress 2.0 has just come out and finally has a WYSIWYG editor of its own.  I think Movable Type is yet to go WYSIWYG.

SB is finally bringing richer content to blogging.  You can now publish text-based microcontent fairly easily.  Podcasting is getting people to publish audio.  Images are pretty well-established.

Discuss

Thursday, January 29, 2004

Hmm, I'm going to have to do something with this site.

Monday, December 8, 2003

Hey, this is so weird; I have a Manila site on Scripting.Com.  Is this going to stay around?

Update: It looks like it will.  Cool :-)

Steve Kirks hit the nail on the head in his explanation of why it feels weird to have a Scripting.Com site.  This may not have originally been the intention (see: Python.Scripting.Com), but today Scripting.Com is very much Dave's blog.  It feels very very odd to see Edit This Page buttons on a scripting.com URL.

Anyway, now that I know that this blog is going to stay here, I might as well start writing about something.  Perhaps I should move crash over here ... ?

Steve is calling for suggestions for people who should have scripting.com blogs ...

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I'm starting a web hosting service, by the way.  If you want to host your blog on my server, drop me a line.  I know a lot about hosting Radio weblogs, and can do things like import comments from radiocomments.userland.com, so if you have odd requirements, ask me.