12 Oct 2006
WordPress is about writing on the web. It’s about publishing. It’s not about editing video, it’s not necessarily about content management, it’s not, you know, about building communities of tens of thousands of people. It’s really one person, one keyboard, one website.
– Matt Mullenweg at BlogTalk in Vienna
And he reckons this was with him struggling to stay awake. I didn’t actually think I’d ever end up quoting this guy on my blog, but whatever. It’s a really helpful statement. It’s an uncomfortable statement for me, personally, because I’d love to use WordPress as a CMS for loads of stuff (even though, deep down, I know it would never really scale at all) and WordPress MU for loads more stuff (if it didn’t kinda suck)… but at the same time it’s easier hearing it from the horse’s mouth. There is a certain sense in which this gives an emancipation from product loyalty in certain senses, and another sense in which it gives me a kick to develop/find a decent CMS (framework) from which to launch other things.
I spend half a day looking at forward edges of the avalanch that is the web and want to quit uni and go freelance. (But I’m biased until next Thursday…)
12 Oct 2006
Pineapples explode.
I just got it all over my keyboard, far out. It was good and all (in an I-really-need-to-floss-my-teeth-right-now-even-though-I never-do-that kind of way) but far too juicy for inside consumption.
11 Oct 2006
Cut down the trees and build more houses whilst shooting dissident journalists in democratic states and ignoring the event as bombs explode in mountains with Tibetans praying to a man as they fall in gunfire (also ignored, this time in the name of commerce). Closer to home (and the Internet), media ownership becomes homogenous, citizen media comes in above citizen justice, flag-theft is confused with flag-immolation in every major media outlet (some make the decision buried beneath sensationalist headlines) and second chances are met with splattered egg yolk, and irrational rampages leave streets of broken glass without message.
On the plus side, I got a free lunch today.
11 Oct 2006
I’m installing it now, this is so completely painless. And, it even offers an Esperanto dictionary via aspell!! I suppose open-source gurus are prone to obscurity, hey ;-)
It’s downloading ImageMagick and GhostScript (hopefully AFPL… no, wait, they’ve now caught up the GPL version! Yay!)… at a meagre speed because it’s a net-based installer. But this is free. And open-source. And they have net-based installers. And it found my already-installed MiKTeX! Instant cool factor. Maybe this Windows gig isn’t so bad afterall. (On second thoughts, I haven’t tried to get it to run yet, this is just the installer… It’ll probably be all fun and games til I try and change the dictionary from Afrikaans to English… or Esperanto… not that I speak it, but whatever).
Meanwhile, I just discovered I somehow have random papercut-esque things all over one of my fingers. Bizarre. Almost as bizarre as my benefitting from the work of open source on Windows as much as I do. Quite odd, indeed.
10 Oct 2006
…but (just quietly), I made this evening the ludicrous comment of which I am most proud thus far over at Erin’s LiveJournal (that sentence intentionally turgid). It is clearly the work of one equipped with a good dictionary… for that I make no apologies. I only challenge you to discover the meaning of “pampining” using anything but the OED. Yes, the comment does make a tangential sort of sense once you decipher the words. No, the meaning isn’t anything particularly deep. This is why I love the ridiculousness of the English language!