<rick_c> when i used wp a lot i used a remote client most of the time. since i'm usually in habari now, i've discovered the reason was i don't like the wp interface.
<rick_c> i've even written in my local habari install, then cut and pasted to my wp blog. :)

Things have been incredibly busy and stressful at chez nous recently. The beloved is acting in a senior role for a couple of months, which basically means she's doing two jobs, I'm trying to get some serious work done on my PhD so I can submit before the end of the year (a little late, but not outrageous), we're looking at interstate business opportunities, considering getting some work done on our house (it _really_ needs it), I'm trying to continue to contribute to Habari, and there are all those other little bits and pieces of life that seem to take ...
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My new buddy Andy C recently said to me:
I used to enjoy blogging a lot more and I actually have a couple of humourous blog articles that I am genuinely quite fond - no more than that - proud of. Twitter is just the ultimate in 'disposable' blogging. All that crap posted from Heathrow T5 just fills my time in. It's hardly earth shattering, is it? God - I can't remember any of those stupid tweets (apart from the lads in Yellow Lurex suits that was pretty funny) let alone be proud of all those throwaway one-liners.
But Twitter ...
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Over on wordpress.com,
... everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb.
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After mucking around with Habari for the last few months, including porting the Connections theme, and loving the community, I'm now posting from my brand new, shiny Habari installation. I'm sure there will be some fine-tuning of the theme over the next month or so, to move it from alpha to beta. There are a few issues I know about already, like incomplete support for multiple entries, and there may be other things I don't know about. If you find anything, please let me know. Thanks to all the Habari community for helping me migrate.
Thanks to concise advice from Owen Winkler (aka ringmaster), my test Habari install now has the same URLs as my existing WordPress blog. That means that when I move, all my links will still work. It would have been a pain to redo all my internal links, but those three sites out there in the wild web that link to me are really valuable ... For reference (lines wrapped for clarity): INSERT INTO habari__rewrite_rules (name, parse_regex, build_str, handler, action, priority, is_active, rule_class, description) VALUES ('display_entry', '%(?P<year>\\d{4})/ (?P<mon0>\\d{2})/ (?P<mday0>\\d{2})/ (?P<slug>[^/]+)[/]{0,1}$%i', '{$year}/{$mon0}/{$mday0}/{$slug}', 'UserThemeHandler', 'display_post', '8', '1', '0', ''); [Update: Don't copy ...
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When travelling, I keep a journal. I've been doing this for almost eight years now, with varying degrees of commitment, and have filled a couple of moleskines. This last trip to Iran is the first trip I've done since I started blogging and using Twitter, but I realised that I've been doing both for years, albeit low tech paper based blogging and tweets. Typically I'll have a couple of entries like, "Mannequins are freaky enough but someone got an import deal in Iran for extra freaky mannequins" and "Found veggie soups!" and then a longer entry about somewhere we've visited ...
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