Feb 4
SeanPersonal, Site News Blogging, Fitness
I’ve decided to change things up some with my blogging. This website, the seanwillson.com domain, is going to become the jumping point to the different online things I have going on. Trying to put everything in one place is really getting kinda messy and hard to manage.
Because of this I’m moving all of my health & fitness blogging over to my LearnFitness.com domain. I’ve owned it many years now but only really used it for health and fitness things way back in 2000. Well I’m going to be posting all of my status updates, venting, and fitness stuff over there going forward. Also, if your looking for most of my old postings on health & fitness, don’t worry they aren’t gone, I’ve already moved most of them over to their new home.
As always, if your looking for any iPhone or iPad development done you can check out NaNil. It’s a company I started with a friend and we have five applications in the iTunes AppStore with more on the way. One of our newest offerings is the FanGuide Architectural Tour Series for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Look for more posts on the NaNil blog about development of our projects and for developing on the iPhone & iPad platform.
If your looking to follow me in a more social and less structured way you can follow me on Twitter with my nerd or fitness personas. They are definitely different people with different groups of interests. I’d try to join the two but to be honest they have very different goals and friends.
As you can likely see I’ve been working on modernizing this blog as well. I will still be posting here from time to time. It’ll likely be things like Astronomy, Family, Technology, or other things not related to the other two blogs. Not all things are iPhone and Fitness right?
I hope people will take the time to check out Learn Fitness and help me grow it into a informative Health & Fitness community. Have an great day … in fact, do something today to make someone else smile. You’ll be happy you did.
Feb 4
SeanTechnology Blogging
well i completed my upgrade to movabletype 3.0d. it was painful for a number of reasons, the biggest being that i am running on an iis server. i had lots of trouble getting my database to migrate over. if you have a lot of posts then be sure to use a web browser that has a long timeout period as it can take a really really long time to convert all of the database files. if it dies in the middle of the conversion, which it did a few times on me, then who knows what ya have then. my biggest suggestion to anyone upgrading is to back up your database a few times before you start this process.
my reasoning behind this upgrade is that i wanted the new administration controls over the site that 3.0d offers, but most of all i’ve been getting hammered with 20-30 spam per day and mt-blacklist wasn’t handling the job cleanly. plus the manual task of having to go clean them out was a pain in the butt. plus, if i didn’t have time the bad porn comments would be sitting on my site for a few days. i wanted to be able to control who was commenting or at least be more comfortable that they were being screened by me or typekey. no, i won’t close the comments up and i won’t be a comment nazi, i just don’t want people putting porn and other crap on my blog.
anyhow, there may still be some tweaks i need to make to my templates, but i’ll fix em as i find em. for now, you shouldn’t see any changes except in comment posting. there is a small but with iis and movabletype not setting typepad cookies right but the moderated comments should work fine. anyhow, i should be returning to regular posting now. it took a while to get the conversion done.
Feb 4
SeanBlogging, Technology Blogging
after the severe public backlash from movabletype weblog authors it seems that sixapart has decided to change their licencing/pricing scheme. they altered the sites and authors limitations in their various tiers to bring it more in line with their user-base. the change that effects me is that the low end personal edition now has 5 weblogs and 5 authors (up from 3 and 1) which brings it in line with my usage model. the pricing is still a bit high considering the feature set but i’m starting to think that i might give them a chance rather than jump. i’m going to look into it more and make sure that it fits my usage and make a decision from there. a few of the things i’m really looking for them to add are photo blogging, email posting support, and easier file uploading. time to think on it …
Feb 4
SeanBlogging Blogging
even google’s getting into blogging by eating their own dogfood, and by that i mean blogger. i used blogger in the not so distant past but prefered hosting my own content management system rather than trusting someone else to “do the right thing” … seems that didn’t work out to well for me ahe?
Feb 4
SeanBlogging, Technology Blogging
if your into blogging you likely saw news earlier this week about sixapart changing their usage policy of their movabletype blogging tool. they’re changing the terms from a free usage policy, with donations accepted, to an overpriced tool that hasn’t seen a decent feature added in a few years. they released the news on their (in)appropriately entitled blog, “it’s about time”. lets just say people were less than pleased with the changes. yes, movabletype is one of the most popular blogging tools on the market but i’d be willing to bet that’ll be changing soon.
i personally use movabletype for two blogs, my wife uses it, and i have a few private less known blogs. if i were to go forth and throw sixapart some of my cash i’d owe them around $99.95 for the same exact features that i’m currently receiving for free. i find it very troubling that they’re sticking their hands out without having innovated or added a new feature since i started using movabletype almost two years ago. it would be different if i felt like they were progressing their feature set, but that’s far from the truth. don’t take get me wrong, i’m happy to support software developers that have applications i use and enjoy. i’ve done it with net news wire, unison, omnioutliner, and many others … heck i even donated to sixapart when i first started using movabletype. i just have a certain standard that sixapart hasn’t met with this new 3.0 release or the past few releases for that matter.
thus begins my search for a movable type replacement, stay tuned for all of the fun. maybe i’ll throw a redesign in at the same time.
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