Gordon's Tech

I recently decided not to renew a domain managed and registered with DreamHost. That domain had an associated WordPress site. This is the se...

I’ve been contemplating migration to WordPress for almost a decade, but Google kept Blogger good enough to keep that headache at bay. Alas,...

I’m far from a WordPress expert. I’m not even a WordPress fan — it’s too complex and powerful for what I do. That complexity means it is als...

In the beginning we wrote web pages in BBEdit and we FTPd them to a NeXT box. Things progressed quickly. Almost two decades ago, when Micro...

I had comments turned off in Gordon’s Shares  [1], but on a rare visit to my admin Dashboard I found 15,000 spomments in the Pending queue [...

This week there's a  brute force password attack on WordPress sites . That inspired my security review, here are a few things I learned ...

I've revised my microblog flow, built on  IFTTT / My Recipes , pinboard , wordpress, and app.net . FWIW, here's how it works for to...

Despite concerns about too many moving parts , I'm still using Reeder, Pinboard and IFTTT as my core information process workflow. I jus...

I was quite pleased with my jury rigged replacement for my long lost Google Reader Shares . (Few remember them now, the net years have passe...

The WordPress visual editor doesn't include tables . Neither does Blogger of course, nor, for that matter, MarsEdit. FrontPage had terri...

I haven't found a replacement for the rough annotation-share-feed ecosystem that had grown up around Google Reader Social (RIP). I'...

I think my microblogging experiments will likely end with WordPress. It's a complex world to learn however. For one thing, there are hun...

I'm continuing to examine exit strategies from Google 2.0 as I prepare to delete my TrueName G+ Profile [1]. Other than Gmail and Goog...

Since I'm distancing myself from Google 2.0 , I was receptive to Phil Bradley's alternative engine advice . I'm testing blekko (...

I liked many things about Posterous . Alas, it doesn't seem to have a revenue stream. Recently, in a desperation move, they tried to bec...

After dispensing with Posterous as a Google Reader social replacement, I'm looking at microblogging with WordPress. This seems a good s...

It's tough to replace Google Reader Social ( damn you Google ). I've been generating tweets from Google Reader, but the workflow is ...

Both at work and at home i've been studying our current toolkit for sharing knowledge. At work I'm supporting our software developme...

It took considerable restraint for me to write this so politely. Please stop using div tags to define paragraphs - Blogger Help My blogs ...

I need to move from Blogger to WordPress (via Dreamhost) . I'm studying how to do this, starting with these guides: The New Ultimate ...