Well I don’t play games anymore so there must be something I can do with all my game CDs (the ones that I purchased) and there is! Some of the music (CDA) on them is really good! So I’ve ripped the music from GTA, Mechwarrior 2 and Fury 3. It is really surprising! I’m going to good through all my other games and look for some more. hehe! I’ll purchase games JUST for the music. Funny stuff.
Ah I remember back when I had my Pentium 133, ripping mp3s was a painful process. I think it worked out to be 20 minutes to encode a WAV file into a 128kbit mp3. Now it is just instant.
On another topic. My new office is proving to be very good, since I move the servers and the adsl modem my internet "seems" to be much better. Before the modem was running through a 15 meter extension cord, well that is gone. So I think that has helped a bit. The connection has been up since the move, no drop outs etc. *touch wood* although I think the dropouts (when there was problems) were more the fault of telstra/iinet. But anything to make my connection more stable.
There are a few more things I’d like to talk about. I should work on my image thing a bit more but really don’t have time this weekend. Josh has finally turned to the darkside and is now using wordpress (although unsure when that is going to be "live" or maybe it is), I still think his old design looks better ;) Unsure if he wants people viewing yet, but if you do post a link in the comments ;) Doh. Now I’m going to HAVE to code stuff to try and keep up with the features of wordpress. hehe.
What else. n00bies running mail servers?! No, I wont talk about that :p
*goes back to listening to fury3 music*
:)
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No, it's not public yet. I'll be moving it across to your server (if you have no problem with that) as soon as I'm content with L/D/everything else.
I really don't understand why you're so defensive about it!!! It's as though I were switching from your product to WordPress – I'm not! I'm switching from my OWN under-developed tool to something better suited to my usage!
The line "…I'm going to HAVE to code stuff to try and keep up with the features of wordpress." seems as though you're trying to persuade me to switch back… to YOUR system!? I mean, I'm sure it's great and all, but really, it's not that different to mine. You want my support and patronage? Give me HTML or human-oriented markup, ala Textile, not crappy BBcode-esque formatting. Give me flexibility. Scalability. Trackback support.
The key thing on my mind right now is flexibility. It's all about being able to do what I want in a post. If that means going crazy with HTML, so be it – I don't want to be restricted by poor syntax for my blog. For other applications? Sure, that's okay: if presentation can be handled with restricted syntax, all the better! If less can go wrong, less will.
Except I'm happy to live with the risk of something going wrong for the added flexibility it grants me. Flexibility to post what I want, how I want. Flexibility to change blogging tools if I were to choose to do so in the future, because the platform I'm currently using is interoperable enough, widely used enough, and supported enough to make this viable.
Scalability? My existing system was in need of an overhaul. I'd say yours won't scale much better – possibly worse. You've got "Short Archive" and "All Posts", which isn't exactly the best way to structure archived content. My "Page x" system was better, but still, it was starting to look ridiculous, and didn't really assist in access to information.
Trackbacking, contrary to comments made by yourself previously, is something which I think to be an important part of blog culture. Not only does it extend the range of content viewed as people click through, it also provides scope for someone to reference information, and notify that they have referenced information, without necessarily staying as "on topic" as a comment on the original authors page would require.
Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, the use of trackbacks allows for attribution… this isn't the most immediately apparent aspect of the technology, but that doesn't deduct from its potential.
That said, though, if you're going to sway me away from WordPress towards your blog system, the first thing which needs to change is the size of this darn comment box… ;)
1: Comment by Josh - Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:33:51 EST
Yep that's fine.
I have no idea why you're bringing my software into this. The code running your site was written by you, it has nothing to do with it. That comment confused me. I have nothing against your software. My problem is with wordpress.
lost me again. You've never used my system. What are you talking about?
Don't get me started on wordpress. It sucks CPU usage like no tomorrow. I've watched Stuart site cut my CPU in half. My stress testing involves holding down F5 and watching the CPU usage (very advanced huh? ;)).
Wordpress: 100% Usage, everything comes to a stop.
Your site: 60-70% Usage, not too bad.
This site: 35-40% seeing where I am coming from?
If I visit Stuart's site (1 hit) the CPU jumps to 22% where as this site goes to 4% (about the same as yours).
I understand my archive system may not be great but I'll come to that when it becomes a problem. That is the great thing about designing your own. Currently if you go to the All posts link it still takes about a third of the time to generate than Stuart's front page (sorry Stuart, nothing against your site, just you're the only one on this server currently running wordpress that I can compare to).
My thoughts on that are here:
http://blog.dalegroup.net/archive/blog/newsid/94
Okay I should make my argument clearer. If you're going to use wordpress that is fine. My problem is really with the program, not your use of it. Although it is a bit of a step back, considering you coded your current site yourself ;) I just liked the fact that your site was different and complete done by you. Cool factor.
I'll just leave with a quote from you ;)
2: Comment by dale - Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:17:05 EST
urls become clickable
[b]place text in bold[/b]
[i]place text in italics[/i]
[quote]place text in a quote[/quote]