The Loomiverse » Blogging http://www.loomiverse.net The universe according to Loom Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:48:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Gallery2 Integration http://www.loomiverse.net/2008/07/09/gallery2-integration http://www.loomiverse.net/2008/07/09/gallery2-integration#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:30:37 +0000 loom http://www.loomiverse.net/?p=7 So Yay!

My gallery2 gallery is “integrated” with WordPress.  Which means that those pictures on the right of the page are grabbed straight from the gallery.  Apparently, I can also stick a picture in here

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]]> http://www.loomiverse.net/2008/07/09/gallery2-integration/feed 0 So this is it http://www.loomiverse.net/2008/07/09/so-this-is-it http://www.loomiverse.net/2008/07/09/so-this-is-it#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:38:24 +0000 loom http://www.loomiverse.net/?p=3 I’ve had to push myself to start a new blog for the HOPE conference, I’m not sure why, but it seems like a good way to keep a record of where my head is while I’m there.

Since I have a LiveJournal and Blogger Account that I don’t use, I started thinking about why I’d bother setting up another blog – which I probably wouldn’t use either. I don’t like the fact that my other blogs are hosted somewhere else by someone else, someone who could quite arbitrarily cancel them, change them or even decide that my thoughts are not appropriate for their service. So it had to be a blog that is hosted on my infrastructure, or at least infrastructure that I am paying for.

So what blog software to use? It had to be open source, easy to use, easy to set up and generally not have me screaming at it whenever I wanted to do something. After much consideration (at least 5 minutes) it came down to a choice between b2evolution and WordPress. WordPress won, so I installed it, easy, less than ten minutes.

It failed the 5 minute test – anything bad in the first 5 minutes and I switch to option 2. Can you believe that it has virtually no built in plugin search, download and install capability? I have to ftp the what to the where and do thingamy to the file, then refresh the page to make it work, then click activate? Fuck Off!

So bye bye WordPress, hello b2evolution.

It failed the 5 minute test too. Ugly ugly ugly default admin interface. Not intuitive. Menus don’t work in opera. I couldn’t even find the bit where I get to change the theme to something prettier.

Back to WordPress, which at least looked pretty enough. So I decide to search the online pluginny stuff.. First I tried PlugInstaller, which I installed. I tried to use it to install another plugin, which it couldn’t. So maybe it was a bad plugin, maybe I’d done something wrong, try again with a different plugin. Some crazy message about no files in the plugin directory…

Move on to One Click Plugin Updater – this one works. I still have to go and search through 2500 plugins to find what I want, but at least I can install them fairly easily now.

So anyway, welcome to what is my first and quite possibly last post on my new Blog….

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]]> http://www.loomiverse.net/2008/07/09/so-this-is-it/feed 0 Welcome to my mind. http://www.loomiverse.net/2004/11/08/welcome-to-my-mind http://www.loomiverse.net/2004/11/08/welcome-to-my-mind#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:42:00 +0000 loom http://www.loomiverse.net/?p=12 So here we are now, entertain us. Or probably more likely, since I’m writing, I should be entertaining you…

Well, for a first post, you probably won’t get much. Sorry.

I think I may have held off on creating a blog for long enough, it’s not that I think I don’t have anything interesting to say, in fact I know that I don’t. It’s more that I believe that I will need more discipline to do this than I believe that I have. I guess I’ll find out.

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