Blog

First (typo) post!

I’m taking the plunge and making Typo my primary blogging engine.

It’s going to take a while to get used to the markup filter method of blogging (vs. the WYSIWYG method I was using before).

Typo gives you three choices for markup:

New blog up and running (hopefully)

I think I’ve got my blog converted over to Typo now. It’s going to be a bit of a pain getting my old article archives up and running, but the tough part was just getting the blog ported over.

I’m not going to worry about importing all my old articles into the new blog. I have some mod_rewrite rules set up to ensure that all the articles are redirected from their many old URLs to their new homes.

I have the old news archive available here, but Google is still the best way to find stuff on here.

The State of Wine

I’ve been very much impressed with the state of the Wine project lately. It’s gotten to the point where I can assume that a program will work under Wine, rather than assuming that it won’t.

One of the major supporting companies, Codeweavers, has done a great job with packaging up Wine and putting a fair bit of polish into it. It installs flawlessly (just run their custom installer) and then gives every user their own virtual Windows environment. It also has support for a system-wide environment, but I haven’t played around with that much.

Considering Typo for Blogging

After seeing Typo on a few high-profile blogs, I’m considering making the switch to a different blog engine. I’m hoping this will help me post more often than I do.

Switching to a new blog system is tough when you consider the problem of legacy blog posts. Thankfully, I can probably use mod_rewrite to archive my older posts without having to worry about importing them into the new blog system.

With any luck, I’ll be able to jam my current site template into Typo and have a seamless switchover.

Treo 650

Just got myself a Treo 650 last week off Ebay. It’s an aftermarket-unlocked, Cingular-branded phone, about $100 cheaper than purchasing an unlocked GSM phone directly from palmOne.

This device is very cool. It supports a form of dial-up-over-USB through its virtual serial port. Under Linux, I just need to point pppd at the /dev/ttyUSB0 device and the device gets itself a nice internet connection:

pppd /dev/ttyUSB1 :192.168.145.200 ms-dns 192.168.145.2 nodetach proxyarp

If you’re running Windows, it looks like Softick’s PPP client does the same thing.