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Push the tempo?

Posted in Meta, Wordpress by garth on the August 27th, 2007

I'm much more likely to post to Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook than here. The environments are pleasantly slack: I don't feel like I have to write masses of highly insightful prose. 

Today, I noticed another key factor: their tools are optimised for speed of posting. You can tweet or tumble as fast as you can send an instant message. For whatever reason, I feel a lot more drag than that when trying to post in Wordpress. 

I've installed TIQPWP to see if it helps. Already, I've noticed one thing I like: when I hit Enter, I get a new paragraph rather than a line break. 

Result so far: first post in a billion years. Well, a month. Whatever.  

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Posted in Misc, Wordpress by garth on the August 2nd, 2007

My web host just rang me to ask me to upgrade WordPress. Some benefactor of humanity had used a hole in WordPress to turn his web server into a spam-bot, and he was going to get black-holed any minute. Rather than turn me off entirely, he rang me. How's that for customer service? I sincerely doubt I'd get that from, say, GoDaddy. 


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