Instead of designing a new theme from scratch I just went with the off the shelf Easel WordPress theme. It suits my needs and I don’t want to spend a lot of time worrying about form over function. I have also migrated this blog to the domain michaelridley.info as I think that’s better personal branding. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure if I ever liked this web site layout. I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure this was just an interim design that I never finished. Anyway it’s pretty horrible at this point so it’s time for a redesign. I think I’m also going to migrate to a different domain that makes more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just noticed two things. First, my Twitter integration seems to have stopped working as I’m sure I’ve tweeted since August of 2010. Second, I have completely neglected this web site and haven’t posted in ages. Life has been very busy with starting a new job back in August. I’m doing a lot of distributed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I have mentioned on here, I have been taking a few classes at the local community college. One of the unexpected benefits of being enrolled as a student is that I have access to the community college library. The physical library itself is fine, but what’s really cool is that I have online access […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week I wrote that I was trying out MacJournal as an authoring tool. While I liked MacJournal for offline private journaling, it didn’t really work for updating this site. I’ve downloaded MarsEdit version 3.0.3 to see if it fits my needs better. So far it does. The MarsEdit screen is automatically divided into a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s digest covers such exciting topics as Chicken of the VNC, Sequal Pro, Open Source GIS with MySQL and PostgreSQL, and the Khan Academy.
I always intend to update this web site more frequently, but for short updates I tend to just post on Twitter or Facebook. And for longer updates I often start writing something and then get side tracked. So I’m going to try something different and start posting a periodic, perhaps weekly, digest.
I have been excited about the prospect of eInk readers for a long time. Back in January of 2006 I wrote about looking forward to the Sony Reader but expressed that a tabloid sized version that would allow me to read periodicals is what I really want. It looks like Amazon’s upcoming Kindle DX will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I bury the lead. A lot. Most of the time, in fact. I am aware of the inverted pyramid structure for writing newspaper articles. I understand search engine optimization. I realize that getting to the heart of the matter quickly is good for eyeball retention and PageRank. But I still bury the lead on most […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After being a satisfied Dreamhost customer for almost 4 years, I’ve cancelled my account. I’ve moved my hosting over to GoDaddy and I find the whole experience very frustrating. While there’s nothing wrong with GoDaddy’s hosting, they don’t offer all the features that Dreamhost does. Frankly nobody does. Which is why I stayed with Dreamhost […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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