A while back I had a tumble category on this site and I posted links with short commentary, but I didn’t like the way everything ended up in the single category. Now that I have tags on the site, I am going back to tumble posts. I will retain the main category for all short posts, but will tag them for further identification.

So why am I doing this? Well, I have a problem with content. I don’t have much time to write longer posts and the blog gets stale. Tumble content will help me keep it fresh, as long as I don’t go overboard. I don’t plan to make this my social bookmarking site. Tumble will be for links that I want to say a little more about than I can with twitter. Longer posts will still be separated on the Articles page for easier browsing.

Speaking of twitter, I have installed a twitter aggregator that will post weekly summaries of my twitter activity at the end of each week.

tags: Tumble

I have been hosting my domains out of my basement for the last seven years. First they were on a linux box and then on Mac OS X Server. The move to OS X server really made things pretty easy, but I still had to maintain the hardware, and most of it is getting old. Since I didn’t want to buy a new server right now, and I would like to save electricity and reduce the fan noise in our family room, I decided to search for a hosting provider.

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tags: hostican | hosting | internet | wordpress

I just finished a major overhaul of this site, including a migration off of the server in my basement to a real hosting service. Not that there was anything wrong with hosting it in my basement, but I am getting a little tired of being a system administrator when I should be spending my time writing for the site instead. While moving the site, I made extensive changes to the theme to make it look more modern and also did a lot of extension work to makes sure that the site is behaving well with Google, Technorati, and others.

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tags: blogging | hosting | wordpress