Abandon it after about two months.
Not that I’ve abandoned this, yet. I have other writings in the works, they’ve just taken a backseat to more important and, moreover, time consuming matters. But this is why they invented RSS.
off.Root is a much cooler name for this blog, at least cooler than “newBlog.” The idea actually came from our friend Gecko, who in mentioning that he didn’t understand anything on this site said things were easier to follow over in root, which I thought was nifty. So this is now off.Root, because it looked better with the dot in there. Old URLs should redirect to their appropriate locations automagically, you’re welcome. Also worth noting, I upgraded to the final WP 1.5 release.
The site’s back up, we were down yesterday during a server switch. Now we’re residing on a server with a nice 1GB of RAM (my PC has a quarter that) and more free space than the old one. So get back to not commenting.
BTW, WordPress 1.5 stable was released yesterday. No official announcement yet, but I guess I’ll be upgrading my other blog soon (and this one too, but still).
Just trying to pull off an upgrade to WordPress 1.5-gamma, now that they’re having upgrade parties and whatnot. Normally I’d be saying that it’s just an excuse for a geek to have a social life, but one can see that logic is flawed when one considers the fact that only other geeks would attend an upgrade party.
(Note to geeks: please take the above in jest.)
Update: Done, I think. Took maybe 20 minutes in all, now to play around with new settings.
It’s about time, I think, that I started some sort of public blog. I had one before, except then some friendly people who actually knew me got the link and had a bit of a field day with it. So I shut them off from it. That was in May 2003.
So almost two years later, I’m trying something different. Because there’s a nicely sized Intraweb out there, and I’m looking to actually have something of mine available to it. Thus, I established this. Apologies for the name, I’m truly not that inventive (though I capitalized the B in blog to prevent any mistakes in word-separation). Your ideas are appreciated. But we’ll see how this goes.
First on the agenda: developers, how they protect their applications against piracy, and how far they can and should go. In the interest of disclosing relevant details of my background, I am not a commercial software developer, and I’m not running a single piece of pirated software on either my computer or my PDA(s). Personally I rely on freeware and open-source software because I’ve found they can usually get the job done for my needs just as well as any commercial program.
There was a case in the 80s, the reference to which I credit to a poster in a thread to which I will link later, about a subway vigilante. It’s rather interesting if you’re unfamiliar with the case, it’s basically the case of a man shooting four kids because he thought they were robbing him. What does that have to do with software piracy? Keep reading.
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