Tinkering around with the Movable Type stylesheets and templates in MT2.6x to try and get things just how I want them. But it has been a bit of an exercise in futility. They’ll look fine in Firefox but not in IE (or vice-versa). So I’m wondering about scrapping the whole MT 2.6 set up and…

Min Jung Kim has put together a blogging life cycle. She writes, Having blogged in one form or fashion for the last 6 years or so (not including personal journals that I’ve written in, on paper even, with crayon even, since I was six years old), allow me to personally provide you with a rundown…

Andrew Jones briefly answers a question about putting photos into your blog at : Mac, blog and photos. Both the suggestions cater for simple blogging – Blogger + Flickr or Typepad. (Flickr can be used with other blogging systems too – see here for the list). Now that works probably for a lot of people…

Lawrence Lessig’s recent blog post never again links in nicely with the discussion Tim highlighted at SanBlogue: When copyright fails. In it Lessig comments on the restrictive nature of “Publication Agreements” and the loss of author’s copyright. His slant is that he will now “not agree to publish in any academic journal that does not…

Tim’s post here points out that sharing copyright with journal publishers does come with strings attached – as in you might not be able to submit it to an electronic repository (as hypothesised here a day or so ago). See: SansBlogue : When copyright fails… Might be interesting to see what the definition of a…

Following up from the posting about making theological vignettes on video, there might be an easier way to do it first up – via pod-casting. Have a look at : Wired 13.03: Adam Curry Wants to Make You an iPod Radio Star.

Pondering upgrading MT to a later version for a variety of reasons – nested categories being one of them and fixing the CSS Windows IE problems being another. Given AKMA’s problems doing this (see here) I’m thinking a clean install might be the best thing after doing an export and full backup. The CSS might…

STUFF : TECHNOLOGY : DIGITAL LIVING – STORY : Blogs of our lives has a survey of new blogging technologies that will increase the amount of personal information that needs to be managed. While the multimedia diary will continue to be stored across a number of devices, the real challenge, says the CSIRO’s Science Industry…

Some statistics on the growth of Red Hat’s Fedora community-driven Linux distribution for web serving. Of interest to me as I used to administer and use some Red Hat web servers, though with Mac OS X on the desktop now I tend to use that for testing web stuff (e.g. various flavours of Movable Type…