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WordPress, having a CMS website, and decisions.

Greg — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:30:15 +0000

Hmmm, how would that work?

As I struggled with my WordPress instance bombing on me the other day, it occurred to me that I was unaware how dependent I had become to having such a tool manage my website. Once I realized the extent of the issue I was having, I even resorted to uploading my old static website to my server while I figured out the problem. I quickly realized when re-deploying my old website how much of an effort it used to be to maintain it and update it with no current CMS modularity that I have come to enjoy using WP. Then I realized (as if this weren’t enough to think about) that I have 2 “bloggy” sites…one on Posterous and this website you are reading.

So of course, this made me debate why I have a website altogether. It used to be for showcasing my projects and my web based offerings but I left that side of my career behind eons ago. These days I have moved more to the planning/strategy side of the street and so therefore, by design I guess, my website needs are best quantified by what I have to say. Sigh…so THEN, I read through a lot of my posts to investigate if I felt I had something interesting to say. I determined that though I am not providing expert analysis or other kinds of genius through this website I AM having fun and so therefore, WORDPRESS IT IS!

Going forward I plan to be more active in using it too.

If I were still a dev, I’d want to ride Google Wave

Greg — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:35:14 +0000

Google has dropped yet another bomb on the internet world with a new platform for collaboration called Wave.

It’s a merge of email, IM and social media under one construct with a host of API’s for developers to now leverage those API’s for inclusion into their own sites and for them to also make their own services and extensions with it.

The entire preso can be seen below:

It’s truly fascinating and represents the next revolution online.

When I get an iPhone…

Greg — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:59:05 +0000

I’m getting this app for sure: Pinger.

Although this app like so many others that seem cool for iPhone won’t run in the background while you use another app, check mail, whatever..it sure seems cool. Hopefully Apple is working on simultaneous applications running at the same time.

The app provides a connection layer to your contacts giving you power to IM, email, text, or message through Facebook when they are online. Pinger detects what services the user is logged into as well so you can choose what communication means to use. Kind of neat.