Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Thinkers Among Bloggers

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Website maintenance is a near-continuous process, something they don’t tell you in those seminars about how easy it is to put up a website. When I first realized that having a website meant I had to figure out how to fix it when it was broken, I was filled with dread. Over the years, though, the process has gotten easier to manage. I chalk it up to my Philosophy of Dreadful Jobs: when faced with any daunting task, if you actually start it at some point, then continue until it eventually is completed, it becomes less daunting. Who knew?

Blogger’s Lament

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Oh why oh why did I choose wordpress for my blogging software? It’s great, I love that good feeling that comes from using open source software, and I’m proud of figuring out how to upload and configure it all by myself. But it is a little too geek-ified for me. Every time I upgrade to [...]

The Gnosis Cafe blog is up and running!

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

I thought I couldn’t do it–navigate the back end of my server and set up a blog, but after an hour and some change, I think this thing is ready to run! All the while I was building it, I kept reminding myself that this goes against my business principles: I am creating something I don’t yet have a specific use for. But the gravitational forcefield of the blogosphere was too great to resist, so here I am with a blog of my very own.