Newest Industry

Ok, all I have to say is: If you do not have the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, go get it. The update took all of 30 seconds.
Thanks to the authors of that extremely useful piece of code.

Since November 5 2004 (Geez! Have I been blogging that long?), I have written 1,744 posts (this is 1,745). So, as you can well imagine, I can’t remember whats in most of them. I know which ones are the most popular and what’s in those, but on the whole, I couldn’t tell you what’s in [...]

For FriendFeed has become my replacement for Google Reader, which I only visit occasionally now to see if there are blogs I need to add to my feed.
But, if you are going to replace a reader with FriendFeed, how do you manage the flow of content. While tools will likely improve over time, I have [...]

Or should I say, welcome back.
Three years ago when I started blogging on a regular basis, the blog was name The Newest Industry after the Husker Du song of the same name. Then I migrated the content to Wordpress.com, and relinquished hosting it myself.
Well, I have decided to resurrect Newest Industry, but with all the [...]

So, the last post I put up simply stated that I had failed in installing Worpress 2.6 on my own server. The permalinks were messed up and it looked a lot like an issue that a lot of people were having.
But, the catch was: the problem persisted when I tried to use Wordpress 2.5.1. Hmmm…wonder [...]

I decided over the weekend to have a go at running my own install of Wordpress 2.6, with an aim to perhaps hosting my own blog again, with the obvious gains in flexibility and monetization.
Let’s just say that it was frustrating.
The most frustrating part was the permalink issue. All known and posted fixes failed to [...]

When FireFox 1.0 was released, the sites hosting this eagerly awaited software effectively were overwhelmed by the number of users attempting to download it.
A colleague of mine referred to it as a Success Failure. What is that? It simply means that you have been so successful at getting the word out and getting people excited [...]

Today, I want to talk about what happens when you aggressively adopt an online strategy, but leave your print subscribers behind.
I subscribe to a great architecture and design magazine, whose name I will exclude from this discussion, with a fantastic and informative online presence. The archive and articles available to subscribers are a fantastic resource [...]

I am spending most of my non-work time reading and discovering about modern design and architecture. As a result, I have started a new blog to isolate my thoughts and ideas on these topics.
Come over and join the conversation at blunderWERK Design Notes.
Tags: blunderwerkz, design, architecture, blog

After months of using Live Writer, I am back to Qumana. Simple, lightweight, does the job.
Tags: Qumana