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Blogging from TextMate

by mitch on May 18, 2010 in Blog Stuff, Geekery

I have reluctantly been using TextMate for a couple weeks. No text editor can ever take the place of Vim, but there are several features that attracted me to TextMate. So far I am impressed, and TM makes editing HTML and CSS a snap. I will write about my experiences when time permits, but for [...]

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Site Functioning Normally

by mitch on March 12, 2007 in Asides, Blog Stuff, Blogging, Geekery

According to Dreamhost, the slowdown my site experienced earlier was due to “IO requests getting backed up due to networking issues between [my] HTTP server and the File server.” Things are fine now; let’s hope they stay that way.

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Site slow today…

by mitch on March 12, 2007 in Blog Stuff, Blogging, Geekery

Every page on my site is taking for-flippin’-ever to load. What’s the deal?! Sent support request to Dreamhost… 4 hours 27 minutes later and not a word. Tweaked wp-cache and enabled FastCGI, but still no joy. Are all the rants about Dreamhost right?

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Thinking Before You Comment

by mitch on April 24, 2006 in Blog Stuff, Talk

I know I’m not the first, but a recent experience taught me a valuable lesson: There is no “undo” button when posting a comment to someone else’s weblog. Stumbling upon a post offering what I thought was a bad piece of advice, I felt compelled to inflict my personal opinion on the site owner. While [...]

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Linkto: Rushi’s Weblog Client Review

by mitch on April 18, 2006 in Asides, Blog Stuff, Geekery, Links, MovableType, WordPress

Rushi quickly reviews a couple of weblog clients, or “blog editors”.

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Back Up del.icio.us Bookmarks

by mitch on April 11, 2006 in Blog Stuff, Geekery, WordPress

Lifehacker shows you how to back up del.icio.us bookmarks on your blog. As the article points out, aside from backups, there are other benefits to doing this: It also kills two birds with one stone: participate in the del.icio.us community AND update your blog daily with one del.icio.us post. This is a “no-hassle” solution done [...]

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Redirecting WordPress Feeds to FeedBurner

by mitch on March 22, 2006 in Blog Stuff, Geekery, WordPress

If you want to simplify delivery, management, and analysis of your site’s feeds, FeedBurner is a great solution. This page will give you a quick summary of what FeedBurner is about. One of my favorite features (complete list of features) is SmartFeed™, an option that provides a subscriber-aware version of your feed to an aggregator, [...]

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Performancing for Firefox

by mitch on January 5, 2006 in Blog Stuff, Geekery

Cool extension – Performancing for Firefox

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