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the internets: threat or menace?

chaircrusher — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:30:04 +0000

Trying to keep shit simple. My blog posts were showing up twice in my facebook feed.

All this multi-social-networking-app integration gives me a headache.

If my blog looks weird it’s because the latest WP version broke my theme

chaircrusher — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:39:13 +0000

… all of a sudden, the stuff that’s supposed to be to the right of posts is down at the bottom of the page, and I lost my ‘older/newer’ links to step backwards in the blogs.

Grrr. Like I want to go and edit a bunch of PHP code that’s highly nested and has no comments.

LiveJournal Readers can now post comments on LJ

chaircrusher — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:58:39 +0000

As per ’s suggestion, I’m no longer forcing anyone to go to my blog to post comments. In a perfect world, the comments would get pushed both ways, but that would require WordPress and LiveJournal to cooperate in ways they do not, and would probably end up being a mess of cross-posted spam.

So knock yours elf out, as we like to say on chat. I would welcome it if you click through and do your comments on the blog itself, but it’s not a big deal either way.

And on that subject, why a blog and not just a Live Journal? Three reasons:

LiveJournal is a world unto itself. It’s great in so many ways, but having a LiveJournal is different from having a blog. A lot of people use RSS aggregators that don’t bother ever looking on Livejournal. If you post something on a blog you show up in Google searches in ways Livejournal Posts do not.
WordPress is things that LiveJournal is not, like a content manager and web page editor.
Because I can. I’m paying a not-insignificant amount of money for a web server and domain, might as learn some of these newfangled web doohickies. Of course PHP hardly qualifies as newfangled any more.