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Comment on Goodbye Typo, Hello Wordpress! by emanchado

emanchado — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:11:58 +0000

John,
Thanks for your comment! I also dislike PHP, but figured that I wasn’t going to touch the code so I’d be fine. Movable Type looked good, but too complex for my needs. Not that I couldn’t use it or anything, but Wordpress seemed to do everything I needed with a much more “focused” UI. If you really prefer using a Perl-based system, you’ll most probably be just fine with MT.

Comment on Goodbye Typo, Hello Wordpress! by JohnP

JohnP — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:00:11 +0000

As I read through your Typo rants, I have to agree.

I jumped on the Ruby/Typo bandwagon a few years ago since I needed a trivial, personal, blog that used SQLite and was interested in Ruby. I was coming from WebAPP. Well, as you know, Typo uses Ruby on Rails and all the requirements that entails. It is not light weight in server resources, requiring over 512MB of RAM just to update Ruby Gems. In fact, I’ve had `gem update` lockup with 512MB and had to upped the RAM to 768MB just to get it to complete. That isn’t a problem for a home-hosted server running in a VM, but at a hosting provider, that change almost doubles the monthly cost. I also ended up running pound as a front end to Mongrel running 3 instances since requests were taking too much time.

I’ve noticed that Typo RSS feeds broke sometime around 1/1/10. I also missed some of the other features that disappeared rather than being disabled by default. I can appreciate that some users had problems with them, but I didn’t so why remove them completely?

After seeing the results of your migration, I’m convinced and will be migrating within the next month. My dislike of PHP is great. I’ll be going with MT in my first migration attempt and may drop back to WP if that fails. I know perl.

If these are too complex, I’ll just go with Joomla or Drupal which will be helpful in my day job.

For the most part, I’ll miss Typo. There are many excellent things about it. I just wish it had better regression testing built into the release process.

For anyone seeking Typo help, the IRC support room is fantastic. Every time I’ve asked a question, it was answered accurately and quickly.

Comment on Goodbye Typo, Hello Wordpress! by emanchado

emanchado — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:47:59 +0000

Haha, I was wondering if anyone would say anything about that ;-)

Comment on Goodbye Typo, Hello Wordpress! by rvr

rvr — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:27:39 +0000

Esteban using PHP in his site!! It’s the end of the world, prepare for 2012! :))

Comment on Vegetarianism by Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Two movie suggestions:

Food Inc
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

Earthlings
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sx7HS6Bp7E
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358456/

For the “shock effect” that might awaken “that moral thing with animals” go for Earthlings, but i highly recommend Food Inc. It covers a lot more than just animal cruelty.

Comment on Vegetarianism by Vetle

Vetle — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve pretty much learned the hard way that overfishing isn’t good. From http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/27/us/new-hope-for-species-depleted-by-overfishing.html?pagewanted=1 :

“Dr. Hutchings said that Norway proved that cod stocks can recover. He said the fish population plummeted because of overfishing off Norway in the 1980’s. The country put strict limits on the catch and now the cod has recovered enough to support a reduced level of harvesting.”

There were also some whale species that almost disappeared completely, but we now have restrictions on that as well to make sure it’s a sustainable industry. That said, I don’t know if overfishing has stopped completely on all areas. In addition, we’ve had problems with fishing boats from other countries coming into our territorial waters and fishing without giving a fuck.

Comment on Vegetarianism by Esteban

Esteban — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Cool! After watching Sharkwater, I wanted to find a list of what is overfished and what is not too bad. Do you have such a list for Norway?
And I love the “gastro-political” thing, haha. I’d like to become one just because of the name :-D

Comment on Vegetarianism by Awakedreamer

Awakedreamer — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Even if you still eat fish like I do from time to time, I still think it’s a huge improvement both: for your health and for the world. Go for it ;-)!

Comment on Vegetarianism by balzac

balzac — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Back in the 80s America was importing Brasilian beef at the expense of the rainforests when there was a surplus of american beef at the time. That was what triggered me to give up imported beef at first and all mammals not long after. Even within fish, my main source of protein, I try to be what one friend calls “gastro-political”; avoiding the overfished and so on. In your case, ethical sourcing may be more important than cutting out the product… for example, I have made exceptions for reindeer on a couple occasions since I know it supports the Sami people, hasn’t traveled far, and isn’t battery farmed or connected with deforestation. Anyway, even if a lot of locals are baffled, you have a lot of support at the office.

Comment on Review: Dingoo (A320) by naroomi

naroomi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Looks quite nice :)

I agree that having emulators for old roms is a cool feature. It is “freedom”, as you describe it.

Actually I have an Ipod Touch, with its cheap games and apps and its cool multitouch interface and stuff… but apple simply does not allow any kind of emulation on it. >:(

So… yes, I am a bit jealous of your Dingoo :_)

PS: I like a game for Genesis called Wiz’N'Liz . It is simple/stupid but really addictive, at least in my opinion :-P

PS2: and if you mix an avocado and a mushroom you get an extra life! (you will know what I talk about if you get to play)