I’m still playing with blogging from the blackberry. I’m starting to realize I’m spending way too much time futzing with blogging and my new website. I hope I don’t get sick of it before it really becomes interesting for readers.
I’m dealing with bankers to finance the farm. I’ll try to write about that tomorrow (it’s [...]

Here is my Technorati Profile

I’m not at Lotusphere2007 this year but a bunch of people (over 7000) are. Among those at the conference are a bunch of bloggers. A small group pulled off an amazing feat - they created a live blog solution. I’m watching them blog from the opening general session which started 30 minutes ago. For [...]

On more than one occasion I have blogged about content from Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users. Today, I read something that made me really think (it made me sick too). Before I go on, I should warn you, Kathy has been very open and her post contains some explicit content. She is courageous [...]

There has been a significant amount of blogging and press regarding anonymity on the Internet. I have recently blogged on the subject.
However, now I am taking a look at the issue from the other side. In the back of my mind, I knew there were two sides to “authentic sources” and the Internet but the shock [...]

I was reading a blog the other day and it had a lot of personal information. At the same time, the author made some conscious choices in what and how he wrote. It got me thinking again about privacy issues - both of bloggers and those they may include in their blogs.
The blogshere is an [...]

A friendly reader complained about my “spam preventer”. For the historians out there, I started this blog with no “user challenge”. It was good for readers wanting to post comments and great for spammers. In the first month I got 30 or 40 spam comments. By the end of March, I was getting thousands each [...]

I’ve gotten some comments (or complaints, depending on how you hear them) regarding the time it takes to load my blog. I’ve tracked it to the external JavaScript includes I have for making the maps of visitors. While I like seeing where in the world visitors reside, I don’t feel that is the purpose of [...]

Zen and I (or probably more accurately, the Arnold & Lewis clock) hosted “Return to the Center” author, blogger, and photo artist. In addition to catching up after far more years than we care to admit, we had a great time discussing the clock, the research process that went into the restoration and the [...]

At Lotusphere a small band of talent created a live blogging service and took to the ether[net] with “live blogging”. Well, the concept has a new contender - Gizmodo!

Live Blogging from Apple WWDC 2007

Gizmodo’s liveblog updates automatically. Source: Gizmodo Live from Apple WWDC 2007 - Steve Jobs Keynote (Note: live blogging of the keynote finished [...]

The purpose of this post is to try out the latest beta of Microsoft’s “Windows Live Writer”. I’ve been very happy blogging with beta1 of WLW. At the same time, I will admit to a couple small annoyances and one big one

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p for work. I have an IBM Thinkpad X60 (refurb) for my personal computer. Given the corporate policies enforced in today’s business world, there I keep my personal content (blogs, personal email, photographic work, money manager, etc.) off my work computer. However, when I travel, I don’t want to carry [...]

I was talking to some people over the weekend that are still stricken with the dreaded “dial up”. It got me thinking about the performance of my blog again. I found a very helpful website for determining the bandwidth needed for a given web page - for instance my blog’s home page.
It turns out my [...]

I finally got around to upgrading this blog to the latest WordPress. the straw the broke the camel’s back - so to speak - was that Windows Live Writer now supports more XMLRPC interfaces included creating categories (in addition to just selecting from existing ones). There are also more complete interactions thru the XMLRPC interface.
I [...]

This morning, while reading some blog comments, I came back to the front page. As you may notice, over on the right side, at the top of the sidebar, there is a image that appears from a randomly selected blog entry. I like this feature in part because it gives new visitors a chance [...]

I finally finished (relative term) setting up my older T40 Thinkpad with Ubuntu Linux. The basic install was quite easy. It took about 15 minutes to create the CD image, boot and install Ubuntu. It took another 45 minutes as it automatically checked for all updates (119 of them) and installed them on one pass. [...]

Well, I said the one thing I really needed on my Linux PC before I could call it my “daily driver” was a blogging client. I’m now trying out “Flock“. I hope I get thu this without too much angst but you can be the judge.
Flock is actually a lot more than a blogging client. [...]

The title is nearly a complete rip-off of a number of posts I read in my vain attempt to find a useable blogging client for Ubuntu. I tried three native solutions and three “Windows under Wine” solutions. All of the windows solutions crashed and none of the Linux solutions could do one of the most [...]

I got an email from a colleague over the weekend. In her ’sig’ she listed all they ways to reach her including two different blogs -  one for work and one for personal stuff. Interestingly, it was her personal blog that had the following …
Managing an online identity is much more challenging that managing a physical one. [...]

Well, I did the voodoo dance, sacrificed a virtual chicken, installed QEMU and KQEMU (and that deserves a post all its own) and finally have Windows Live Writer running in a VM.
It took many nights and showed me many BSOD’s and other crashes but I have my blogging client and I have Ubuntu too [...]

I really want to use WLW for my blogging client. Unfortunately, the open source VM solution (QEMU) is not cut out for the task. It either ran really slow or it crashed (or both). All of which left me less than happy. However, the solution was sound and only the implementation was flaky.
Fortunately, I [...]

This should be interesting. I am authoring this blog entry from within the text editor on the One Laptop per Child. It is a test system so it is not the easiest to see what I am doing. The text editor is configured for “English” and is underlining words that I misspell - and [...]

I am in the process of moving my website and blog to a new host. For this reason, I won’t post for the next 2-3 days and there may be a hiccup or two as the domain and files transfer. I’ll blog about “why” once I am on the new host. I should be back [...]

My apologies to readers who have attempted to comment since my blog moved to its new host ten days ago. A reader reached by email today to say comments were broken. I guess I was not a brilliant as I should have been during the migration. I forgot to disable the cryptograph-p before moving the [...]

I’ve written a few times about my transition to Ubuntu Linux for both my work and personal computers. In that time, I have also commented (as have others) on the lack of a good blogging client. For those that agree with me, it it interesting that many of us have gravitated to Microsoft’s “Windows Live [...]

I can finally say I have a useful and productive blogging tool for Linux - more specifically, Ubuntu. Thanks to the “Postie” plugin for Wordpress, I get to use Thunderbird - my email client - as my blogging client too. It’s great to have something that is quick and ubiquitous for blogging. I get all [...]

Well, my “drop shadow” dilemma didn’t last long. I found a quick and easy feature of GIMP - my graphics editor or choice. GIMP is probably as complex and complete as Adobe Photoshop but GIMP is open source and free (and runs on many different Linux distributions, Windows, and Mac OS X).
GIMP has the [...]

I was surprised when I could not find a good blogging client for Ubuntu. I was even more surprised that more than a few others had the same dilemma. And I was really surprised that others had the same solution - using Windows Live Writer. (Note to self - get a message to Simon Scullion [...]

Just a short entry to mark the milestone that yesterday at about 9:30 pm, my blog marked its birthday. No fanfare was expended but I was pleasantly surprised that I stayed pretty consistent and active throughout the year without feeling it was a chore.
The “blog stats” were interesting … 357 posts and 316 comments, contained [...]

This is a public service announcement …
I realize, looking over my past few blog entries, that I have little if any consistency with regard to content. Personally, I’m not all too concerned with that realization. I’m just not yet sure where I’m headed - or where I want to head for that matter.
The most interesting [...]

A short one this time. I have written two blog entries in the last two days. Strangely, I lost both. More strangely, both were questionable posts. Perhaps there is a force at work … or play ?

It would appear there is a feedback loop playing out across the blogshpere - or at least, the small part that I watch.
Every day, I engage in research via a list of very diverse blogs. I read the blog entries; pick the ones that interest me; dig out the resources that prompted the [...]

I’ve been using Wordpress for my blog and recently using the ‘Postie‘ plug-in to have robust blogging using an email client (all of this because there are no good blogging clients for Linux).
I noticed that my embedded links were not opening in a new tab or window - even though I was using [...]

I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with theSalmonFarm.org blog’s “persona”. At the same time, I’ve been trying to learn GIMP. When I combined the two, I settled on an idea - one that is not unique. “I’ll do what Google does.”
So I am starting to settle on a simple textual [...]

A few days ago, I announced I’d be trying to update my blog logo to reflect events, holidays, etc. Thus far, the idea is working (at least for me). The problem is one of timing. I got the St. Patrick’s Day logo up (a few hours late) and took it down (many hours late). [...]

While it may have all been a joke, there is a question of ethics …
I read an interesting post via my feed reader this morning. The “author” of the blog fourhourworkweek writes that all of the posts for the past year were not written by him even though they all say “written by [...]

For those few who lost my cookbook entries and the chronological story of my clock restoration from last year, it is because WordPress made some major changes to the way categories are managed for blog posts. Rather than bore you with the details, I’ll bore you with the code …
Old query …
SELECT DISTINCT posts.ID, posts.post_title
FROM [...]

I read about Wordles so I created one out of an old post I wrote. Here is the results …

I took a look at my blog’s statistics for June. I’m not sure what has been so interesting to the Italians … ?

 
Countries
 
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth

Italy
it
49710
49894
83.76 MB

United States
us
16080
40003
583.54 MB

Unknown
ip
509
1714
31.27 MB

European country
eu
361
1104
18.95 MB

Great Britain
gb
280
863
13.60 MB

Canada
ca
173
756
11.82 MB

Brazil
br
167
277
6.53 MB

Australia
au
160
718
10.12 MB

Germany
de
100
365
4.80 MB

Netherlands
nl
99
481
10.20 MB

Spain
es
77
327
7.29 MB

Denmark
dk
62
129
1.93 MB

Sweden
se
58
160
2.68 MB

France
fr
32
116
1.77 MB

Taiwan
tw
26
96
806.70 KB

Singapore
sg
24
104
1.13 MB

South Africa
za
24
82
1.50 MB

Poland
pl
24
91
1.35 MB

Austria
at
23
73
1.38 MB

Hong Kong
hk
22
101
1016.82 KB

Switzerland
ch
21
85
1.42 MB

Croatia
hr
19
89
2.11 MB

Hungary
hu
17
51
1.07 MB

Mexico
mx
16
95
1.23 MB

Portugal
pt
14
43
843.97 KB

Czech Republic
cz
14
40
667.48 KB

Finland
fi
14
41
703.90 [...]

I’ve received a strange error from my ISP a couple of times over the past month. You might have seen it as well. “This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota”. I don’t really think it is true but I’ve learned, with ISPs that your are guilty until proven innocent. So I am digging around for [...]

I read a lot of blogs. It is part of my morning ritual. It is part of my personal education, my creative outlet, and even benefits my career. I take the first 30 to 90 minutes of each day “blog surfing”. This process lets me see what is going on across technology, politics, design, [...]