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frugal technology, simple living and guerrilla large-appliance repair

Regular blog here, 'microblog' there

Many of my traditional blog post live on this site, but a great majority of my social-style posts can be found on my much-busier microbloging site at updates.passthejoe.net. It's busier because my BlogPoster "microblogging" script generates short, Twitter-style posts from the Linux or Windows (or anywhere you can run Ruby with too many Gems) command line, uploads them to the web server and send them out on my Twitter and Mastodon feeds.

I used to post to this blog via scripts and Unix/Linux utilities (curl and Unison) that helped me mirror the files locally and on the server. Since this site recently moved hosts, none of that is set up. I'm just using SFTP and SSH to write posts and manage the site.

Disqus comments are not live just yet because I'm not sure about what I'm going to do for the domain on this site. I'll probably restore the old domain at first just to have some continuity, but for now I like using the "free" domain from this site's new host, NearlyFreeSpeech.net.

Thu, 03 Jan 2008

Cool Blogger trick: "Post Options"

Ilene clued me in to the joys of Post Options in Blogger. Just click on the blue Post Options link in the lower left portion of your Blogger post window and you can either allow or disallow comments (which I don't care about) or ... change the date and time of your post. The ability to make posts appear as if they were made in the past (not entirely Kosher) or future (I do it all the time in Movable Type) is something I miss from the earliest days of Blogger. I'm glad to see it's either still here or has made a triumphant comeback.

This post originally appeared on The CTRL freak blog.

Mon, 12 Nov 2007

Blogger ... not washed up yet

I thought Blogger had been eclipsed by WordPress.

That's not quite the case. I'm working in both and will try to get comfortable enough in WordPress to make an evaluation as to which I should stick with.

This post originally appeared on The CTRL freak blog.