Okay… so I’ve been fighting myself to stay positive about Serendipity, but the reality of the matter is that their permalink methods and philosophies just aren’t pretty. Okay, they pretty much suck. Mixed-case URLS just aren’t my thing, man.
Additionally, I’ve been fighting my .htaccess file to redirect all the pages from my WP blog to the new URLs, when in fact would much rather just keep the URL structure I already had because it already kicked ass. Can I help it that I’m a huge fan of RoR style URLs? Now it’s serving different content if I add a trailing slash to a category page… and sending 404 to the HTTP headers. These are pages that are ranking for me. I’m not exactly thrilled.
I should probably just write my own blog software in RoR. In the mean time, I switched to something that’s next-best IMHO. I am using SilverStripe CMS now and it pretty much rocks. It’s really young, so there are bound to be some annoying bugs, but it gives me enough control to make me happy.
You guys have one seriously kick ass operating system. It’s intelligently laid out, speedy, friendly and you’ve attracted everyone from grandparents to bleeding-edge developers to the OSX circle. Now, will you please adhere to better computing practices and stop limiting your operating system to your sexy-but-overpriced hardware?
Mac: “Hi, I’m a a Mac,”
PC: “And I’m a PC.”
Together: “Under the hood, we are practically the same!”
Seriously. It’s a just computer. Get over yourself. The original Macintosh was almost 25 years ago. Move on. Sure, I want a mac, but I don’t want to pay for your marketing budget.
I posted on Twitter a week or so ago about AEAcoming to New Orleans. I think that’s great! After my recent relocation from Seattle to Northwest Arkansas, it couldn’t be more splendid for Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman and the gang to make a stop closer to me than Chicago… but alas! Liam’s due to be born right around there sometime so I can’t make it. I’d say it’s a fair trade off though. I wouldn’t miss my first child’s birth for the world.
Catch everyone at An Event Apart next year. Hopefully in San Francisco!
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