this blog is girtby.net

Posted
18 September 2009 @ 1am

Categories
Meta

Last Post!

On the 18th of September 2004, I unveiled the first post on girtby.net.

And today, exactly 5 years later, I’m posting the last.

Posted
3 August 2009 @ 11pm

Categories
Meta, Nerd Factor X

Tags
amazon s3, google app engine, hosting, wordpress

Sleeping Bloggy

It should be apparent to prettymuch anyone who reads this blog that I have lost the impetus to publish regularly. Although I still have many things to say to the internet, it seems to be getting harder and harder to find the time to put these things in a blog form that I’m happy with.

But [...]

Posted
12 May 2009 @ 10am

Categories
Meta, Personal

Tags
furniture, garage, hardware, ikea

I Fought The Gorm

There’s a kind of internally-generated tension that builds up when you haven’t blogged for a while. It’s not as bad as that other kind of tension which builds up over time, but it’s still there in the back of your mind. And after a while you need to do something, anything, to release the tension.

So [...]

Posted
24 February 2009 @ 10pm

Categories
Meta, Nerd Factor X

Tags
bzr, vcs, wordpress

Staging Wordpress With Bazaar

Version Control Systems, I’ve had a few. But then again, too few to mention.

Keen observers will have noted that I have tended to blog each time I try out a new version control system, and this really isn’t an exception. Except that, well I’m not just trying it out, I actually use Bazaar daily at [...]

Posted
7 January 2009 @ 10pm

Categories
Meta, Nerd Factor X

Tags
javascript, jquery, prototype, wordpress

Monkeying With JavaScript

It’s funny really, one of my main reasons for switching to a Rails-based blogging platform way back when was to become more familiar with web technologies. As it turned out I never really did much of that, but since switching back to Wordpress I’ve been tinkering away madly, and astute observers may have noticed the [...]

Posted
28 December 2008 @ 9am

Categories
Meta, Nerd Factor X

Tags
css, layout, theme, wordpress

Great Designers Steal, And So Do I

Welcome to the new girtby.net site design. If you’re in an aggregator, please feel free to head on over to a browser and admire the countless hours of work that I’ve put into … stealing someone else’s site design.

For a while now I have been in awe of Khoi Vinh’s Subtraction blog, with its amazing [...]

Posted
8 December 2008 @ 11pm

Categories
Meta, Nerd Factor X

Tags
mephisto, wordpress

Blog Migration Secrets

So given that the world (still) lacks a decent common export format for blog software, you might wonder how I managed to move the collection of assorted nonsense that is girtby.net from Mephisto to Wordpress.

Actually, there’s a real chance you might not wonder this. But let’s press on anyway for the sake of Google and [...]

Posted
1 December 2008 @ 10pm

Categories
Meta, Nerd Factor X

Tags
hosting, mephisto, rails, wordpress

And We’re Back

So girtby.net has been a bit quiet lately. You might have assumed that $WORK or $LIFE had both gotten crazy busy. In fact they had, but that’s not the only reason why girtby.net was in stasis. There’s a story behind that, but the short version is that I’m back. Not quite the same as before, [...]

Posted
9 July 2007 @ 10am

Categories
Linkpimpin', Meta

Blog Tinkering

Some blog updates, the details of which will no doubt enthrall and excite very few of you.

Invisible Changes

Under the covers, the entire girtby site (such as it is) is now stored in an SVK repository depot. SVK is a great little distributed version control system built on top of Subversion. I want to say more [...]

Posted
4 April 2007 @ 12am

Categories
Meta, Nerd Factor X

May Contain Ponies

Since the last entry on the .xxx domain proposal, and subsequent discussions in another forum, I’ve been thinking a bit about how content rating should work.

To my mind a key requirement for technologies to rate content on the internet is that it should allow for multiple content classification criteria originating from many different, disparate sources. [...]