Upgraded Wordpress… and I kinda want a more relax blog
By David Fisher. Filed in technology |Tags: blog, cms, friends, livejournal, Uncategorized, upgrade, wordpress
I really like having a semi-serious blog. I don’t generally talk about friends, dates, drinking, parties, or other innane facets of life. However recently I’ve been reading a friend’s Livejournal and really enjoying it. They have a lot of super-short entries that I replace generally by using Twitter, but I somewhat miss and want to have something that’s permanant that I can log my daily life and such in and have close friends keep up with. More than for them, it’s for me to be able to remember my life. Realizing that many of my friends have been actively blogging since 2000 or so with LiveJournal and that I have no such log. A semi-professional seeming blog just doesn’t do the same.
So what I think I’m going to do is use the massive power of Wordpress and create a private section (or a few) with permissions so that I can give various people rights to read certain parts of my blog. You’ll have to register on here (or use OpenID) but I’ll start writing private posts soon as well too and if I like you I’ll let you read them. At the same time, don’t be shocked if I don’t give you access to the entire thing as it will likely be a brain dump of everything that I’m thinking and doing and I’d rather that not be out there for everyone in the world. Hope Wordpress’s security is decent.
So uh, register or something. It takes all of two seconds.
No, I won’t be whining like a depressed 13 year old on MySpace, but there’s stuff in my life that I’d love to log and share with a few people.
On another note, I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and I really like it. These guys know how to do Open Source software well and design accessible and killer UIs. I know it’s not as strong/robust as something like Plone/Drupal/Sharepoint (and the fact that it’s PHP bothers me) but it does a lot that I’ve seen is rather difficult to implement on the larger CMSs. Also upgrading versions didn’t require the dreaded “migration” and nothing broke that I’ve found yet. +1 on Wordpress. I remember using Movable Type when I was at Berklee as the CMS for the Production and Engineering program’s website and it made me want to shoot myself. I love Wordpress.