As the world says goodbye to Steve Jobs, I’d like to share a few stories and photos of my own as I reflect on his death and legacy. Growing Up With Apple I’ve long had a love affair with Apple and its products. My parents purchased an Apple II computer for the family back in … Continue reading Steve Jobs Was Technology's Change Agent
I finally got around to installing SecureImage to deal with comment spam. I had been using SpamKarma for some time until it started spewing PHP warnings all over the place. We’ll see how well the new system works to prevent spam floods on the site. My old version of ImageMagick didn’t work for some reason, … Continue reading Comment Spam
Kaplaaa! I’ve succeeded in transferring most of my old photojournal entries into WordPress! The process was greatly simplified after I wrote an AppleScript to handle each post. The script parsed two files used by my old entries: (1) an XML configuration file containing the post’s title, publish date, and header image and (2) a text … Continue reading Transferring content to WordPress
Well, it’s finally done! I’ve been meaning to redesign tow.com for what seems like an eternity. My old custom content management system was getting quite creaky and unwieldy. The site is now powered by WordPress, a “state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.” Updating the site in the … Continue reading Site Redesign
This past weekend, I installed two 2U servers from King Star Computer (ask for John, he’s a great salesperson at King Star!) at my new co-location facility at United Layer. Matt and Sean were very helpful getting everyting configured and installed properly. I know a bit about Linux and server management, but my skills pale … Continue reading Server Migration
The past few days have been pretty busy in the Bay Area. I have been doing some extensive plumbing work on tow.com. Like Scotty did to the Enterprise in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, I’ve got tow.com running so that a “chimpanzee and two trainees could run her.” In the past, updates to … Continue reading Books, Red iPods, and RSS/RDF
July 9, 2001 marks the one-year anniversary of relaunching of tow.com as a personal web site. This musing reflects on the days before tow.com, its five year history as my company’s web site, my decision to transform it into my personal site, and its future. I remember first seeing the Web, as embodied at the … Continue reading Musings on tow.com
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