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Forking the Blog

By brock on Sun 1 Aug 2010, 1:13 pm

For those of you who don't want to hear about Drupal and other nerdy web development stuff, fear not: I will soon be launching a separate blog for those posts.

And for those of you who don't want to hear about religion or my thoughts about it, you too should fear not: I will soon be launching a separate blog for that, too, with my lovely wife Erin.

The religion blog has been in the works longer than the Drupal one - which is to say, I've been sitting on the domain for that one longer. I'd like to make time to launch both of them in the next month or so, because I am well aware that I'm using this blog to write to about four different topics and audiences. I'll be sure to post announcements on both and details on RSS feeds for the sites, so you can choose what content you want to follow.

Spammers Are Getting Smarter

By brock on Wed 25 Aug 2010, 8:45 am

Have spammers started employing people to actually read and comment on blogs? I just got a comment on a two year-old post about Devner:

I do agree that Denver is weird, though other parts of Colorado are perfectly beautiful. Also, it is a pity that you didn't go out of your hotel/conference venue for your entire trip to Vegas, there is so much to see and to do! Maybe next time, in fact, no maybe about it - you simply MUST. Trust me man. Tim from leather armchair

Somebody actually took the time to read the post, comment on it with some context, and sign off with a link. I'm a little bit impressed - but not impressed enough to leave the comment there.

Garland? Seriously?

By brock on Sun 9 May 2010, 8:06 pm

For the moment, yes: Garland.

I finally made some time to migrate my blog from WordPress to Drupal. The content is all moved over and the old paths are still intact, and one of these days I'll find or build a new theme. But for now, yes, I'm using the default Drupal theme, which is the web developer equivalent of wearing a fanny pack to the opening night of a cool new bar. Read more »

Blog Bankruptcy

By brock on Fri 18 Dec 2009, 8:17 pm

Not unlike last time, I've been putting off posting because there are more important things I haven't had a chance to write about. Read more »

Update for LiveJournal Users

By brock on Fri 9 Jan 2009, 11:52 pm

Friends on LiveJournal --

I'm canning the brock_blog syndicated feed.  My biggest issue with using LJ this way has always been the comments left on posts there.  I had an import script that would copy over comments, but not very well, and I got tired of maintaining it.

I am now using the LiveJournal Crossposter WordPress plugin to crosspost my blog entries into my long-dormant LiveJournal account, brocklisoup.  Comments will be disab Read more »

Reboot

By brock on Tue 23 Sep 2008, 7:32 pm

Every now and then, I neglect my blog for a few months. It's not for lack of interest, or lack of things to write about; I just don't have any time for a little while, and then when I have something quick I'd like to post about, I feel like I'm doing a disservice by not making time to write meaningful posts about the stuff I wanted to post about, either for my own selfish reasons or because it may legitimately be useful to someone else who is looking for information I've found or has a question that I can answer. Read more »

.htaccess and WordPress

By brock on Mon 19 May 2008, 12:14 pm

Lesson learned: WordPress re-writes part of your .htacess file every now and again, namely, the part between the "BEGIN WordPress" and "END WordPress" comments. So, you know, you shouldn't put your own rewrite rules in between them, or you'll wonder why they keep going missing.

Movable Type vs. WordPress

By brock on Fri 16 May 2008, 4:51 pm

I've had this site on WordPress for a few days now, after using Movable Type for over three years.

So far, I love it.

I don't want to place blame, but for the past couple months, Movable Type was giving me hell. I kept getting 500 Internal Server Errors on almost every other page load, and I don't know if it was because of MT, 1&1 (my web host), or because my 650+ posts were too much for the system. According to the Google, a lot of other people were having this problem - long run times seemed to be the issue - but no one seemed to have any solutions. Read more »

The Chore of Blogging

By brock on Fri 16 May 2008, 7:00 am

After reading Getting Things Done and trying a couple times to implement the system, I think I've only taken away the parts that actually add MORE stress: everything is work, and you just need to prioritize and do it.

With that mentality, blogging falls in with booking hotels and airfare, planning bachelor parties, regular household chores, and of course, actual work work. Read more »

LiveJournal Comments

By brock on Mon 28 Jan 2008, 8:47 pm
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