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Blog Rebuilt

I've finished rebuilding this blog again, this time on the Ghost blogging platform. Unfortunately, although Ghost does have migration tools for WordPress and some other CMSes/blogging tools, they don't have one for Nikola. And anyway my Nikola posts were in a weird mix of imported-from-Wordpress (two files per post,

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Moving this blog to static hosting - hosting options

I discovered the other day that the Jekyll static templating system has the capability of importing content from various blog systems. At the same time I was setting up static hosting for a client at $work on Amazon Web Services. Since then I've been thinking about moving this blog to

Podcasts

New Amrit Williams security podcast

While cleaning the house this morning I caught up on Amrit Williams' newish security podcast, Beyond the Perimeter. It's an excellent high-level view of security issues and policy, and the 15-20min duration hits my ideal for podcasts. Good stuff. I've also added Williams' blog to my RSS reader. It really

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New theme, upgraded WordPress

I've upgraded WordPress to 2.7 and am trying a new theme. All seems good so far. In particular the new WordPress dashboard is quite slick.

About

John Scalzi Kibozes the Web

John Scalzi's recent blog post, explaining how he searches the Web for mentions of his name and occasionally comments on sites he finds, strongly reminded me of Kibo. This strong reaction prompted me to do some searching of ancient Internet history using Google Groups, in particular looking for some reference

Useful

Wordpress code/pre tags

More things for posterity, as I had to search several times to find what I wanted... To make the pretty formatting boxes for command output in the Grails post I just finished, I had to use both pre and code tags, like this: <pre><code>[content

Work

Job hunting

The company I've been working for since January has just shut down their North American branch because they were unable to find funding. So I'm job hunting again. One resource I just found that's really quite neat is a blog called Toronto Technology Jobs. The guy writing it, Geoffrey Wiseman,

Geek

Telus cel porn

So Telus is selling porn on cel phones. Apparently some people have problems with this. I'm not entirely sure what the basis of Tod's objection is, I've left him a comment to ask. He's certainly entitled to his own opinion, but if he's making a moral judgment I'd appreciate if

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Canadian TV

Denis McGrath rocks. I'm not much of a TV geek compared to some, but I watch enough and worked at CBC long enough to have some idea about how Canadian TV works, and this guy knows his niche. How Corner Gas Ruined Everything. Should be required reading for anyone working

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Wil is back

Wil is back. Rock it.