26 February 2016
During November 2015 I decided to start a daily journal - an activity which soon changed into an almost-daily series of blog posts. During the time since I’ve noticed a shift in the way I approach social media. I’m not sure I like it.
The blogging exercise quickly morphed into a need to create a test site, added to GitHub.com in parallel to my main 10Centuries blog account. I’ve also been experimenting with rudimentary self-hosting.
As this has happened I’ve been neglecting both my blog and those people who comment on the posts. I’ve not even been keeping up with the shiny new 10Centuries.org after my initial flurry of (hopefully constructive) fault reporting during the early private beta stage.
So it’s time for a rethink.
Sure it may be the time of year at fault; I’m not alone in noticing a realignment of priorities away from social media. But this time around I’m analysing in a bit more depth.
So…
Rather than concentrate on ‘self’ I think it’s time I looked at others’ blogs. It’s only fair.
I’ve quite a backlog of posts in my RSS feed reader. Time to read, folks.
If you have a blog of your own please let me know, if I have or if I haven’t already got it queued up I’ll take a look!
Thanks!
25 February 2016
February 29 (Wikipedia) is a date that appears only during years divisible by 4 (with an integer remainder!) - apart from those divisible by 100 (but not 400) no, don’t stop reading…
There are a lot of interesting notable dates, people and legal facts mentioned on the Wikipedia page, so it’s quite a scroll to get to…
In this modern age Bachelor’s Day doesn’t retain the same importance it once had. But if you’re on the edge of popping the question to the subject of your undying love, it’s a heck of a day to do it.
Gloves on standby!
24 February 2016
Finally, we have liftoff! A week-and-a-half in, and I’ve managed to configure a £30 computer and create a functional pair of shell scripts to post blithering idiocy to my test site/blog.
Streamlining it all to improve security, to post only changed files within the site, and to have the computer run connected only to power & the local network are my next goals.
Achievable.
24 February 2016
I’m annoyed that it’s still not working. My blog post build thing.
This is indeed a test post; thanks for your patience at this time.
24 February 2016
I’ve been asleep, honest! Knowing there would be a solution to my Raspberry Pi automation woes I started to search around 2am.
Google and Stackoverflow.com are pretty handy at this time of night; ‘rvm installation not working: “RVM is not a function”.
It turns out that all I needed to obviate my need to run the scripts in a login shell was to copy the second line of code from ~/.bash_profile to ~/.bashrc.
Thankyou Haris Krajina!
No, I’m not going to wait up.