Just a short note to let any potential commenters know that this blog is being rocked by spammers right now. None of it is getting through, thanks to my moderation settings and a few anti-spam plugins; but it’s possible your comments might be getting lost. I value all (actual made-by-humans-who-are-reading-the-articles) comments to this blog, positive [...]
The word processor has been a part of computing platforms since the earliest days of the home computer; I’ve used a number them over the years, including PFS-write on the Apple IIc, WordPerfect (both DOS and Windows versions), Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, and AbiWord. A couple years ago, though, I got frustrated with the whole word [...]
When I first set up this blog, I attempted to use the weblogger.el extension to blog to this site. Alas, it gave me quite a bit of trouble, so I had to scrap it. Recently, though, I’ve been trying to get a handle on Emacs org-mode, and noticed an extension called “org2blog/wp”. If it can [...]
Apparently due to my failure to read directions, comments have been broken on this site for a looooooooooooooooong time. So now they are fixed, I expect everyone to bless me with their profound wisdom.
WordPress powers 14.7 per cent of the top million web sites – The H Open Source: News and Features. I knew WordPress was popular, but jeepers!
Just testing my ability to post from Emacs. Test test test. I’m posting via weblogger.el, but there are some bugs involving timezone offsets that mess with the publishing time. I’ll see if I can sort those out somehow….
After years of not blogging much to my geekblog, I’ve decided it’s time to join the herd and get a real blog engine behind my writing. True, I may still not find much time to blog, but at least I can get some experience playing with WordPress – a worthwhile bit of knowledge for a [...]