A Curmudgeon Technologist » wordpress http://www.lolindrath.com Get off my lawn! Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:45:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Rant: LiveJournal doesn’t lend to your credibility http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/02/01/rant-livejournal-doesnt-mean-credibility/ http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/02/01/rant-livejournal-doesnt-mean-credibility/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:22:43 +0000 lolindrath http://www.lolindrath.com/2007/02/01/rant-livejournal-doesnt-mean-credibility/ Mark Cuban predicted the death of BitTorrent and and the creator, Bram Cohen, responded yesterday on his LiveJournal blog. LiveJournal?!?!?! Oh come on, using a service full of 13 year old girls having their hearts broken by boys that didn’t know they had crushes on them doesn’t exactly lend the the credibility to BitTorrent.

BitTorrent is an awesome protocol and works really well. It has made moving large files like video podcasts around the internet much less painful.

What I don’t understand is why its so hard for Bram to use his own domain and install some blogging software so his posts come from a more credible source than LiveJournal.

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  • WordPress 2.0.7 Released – a few bug and security fixes
  • How to Tag and Categorize Your Content – you should only have a handful of categories, but lots of tags
  • WordPress Post-install Checklist – Step-by-step things you must do after a new installation (I don’t agree with turning off the visual editor but that’s mostly your own opinion)

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    In your wp-config.php file, below the database stuff, add this line:

    $wpsmiliestrans = array();

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