dasman’s World

Had some fun last week installing the latest and greatest version of WordPress - version 2.1. And in related news, I’m announcing a new blog!

So, the technical details first - the installation was a snap. Just like the 2.0 series, a quick unzip and point your browser to a particular page, and minutes later the blog is up and running. From the admin perspective it feels like an incremental improvement - things seem a bit snazzier and smoother, but its hard to put your finger on any one “knock-your-socks-off” feature.

One item worthy of note is that the editor is much improved, so you can do your posts in the WYSIWYG editor reliably (I found the earlier incarnation a little flaky - so much so that I turned it off, and did my posts “manually”).

In terms of the new blog, this setup was all about bringing the latest incarnation Low Impact to life. A while back, I’d noticed that more and more of my posts had an environmental leaning which, while not clashing particularly, were starkly different from my tech-related posts. So, as an experiment, I setup a blog on Blogger called Low Impact.

I got a lot out of the experience - enough to know that:

• I liked the setup of having a specific blog for environmental topics, freeing up dasman’s World for more tech-related postings, and
• While Blogger is a great site, nothing beats having full control of your own website!

So, the domain was registered, a webserver setup, and WordPress 2.1 installed.

Low Impact’s purpose is to provide postings specifically about reducing our impact on the environment. If that’s a topic that interests you, you might want to check it out!

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2007 at 3:05 pm and is filed under Environment, Green, IT Stuff, computing, general. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.