From Blogware to Wiki
No. I am not changing from blogs to WiKi. This page stays. So are the rest of my blogs. They are my precious babies, each operating/surviving with its own conscious mind..
I didn't say "from blogging to WiKi." Rather, I said, "blogware". There is a difference there.
To cut that short, I have been looking for an appropriate Wiki engine for my website.
How that whole idea began was that I had been trying to study for job interviews. I haven't get my resume quite together yet. But I do have to multitasking quite a lot (work, friends, parents, job hunting, study for interview, and my precious
never ending development website) to get everything going at the same time.
Then I realized, how little did I know about WiKi, and how difficult it is to choose the right one!
I once wrote a blog about choosing a blogware for my site. I read reviews, installed, played with, and uninstalled WordPress, b2, b2evolution, plog, TextPattern, Serendipity, and Nucleus. I finally settled with WordPress. No more hunting around. It's just too time and energy consuming.. Actually I much prefer plog and TextPattern, but I had quite some problems with plog's template installation and uninstallation because I do not have root privilege.. Long story.
I thought I had learned my lesson. Unfortunately, I didn't.
Wiki opened up another big knowledge hole in me. I got sucked in almost immediately,, digging and poking at different choices, looking for reviews and comparisons websites. What I found was:
A list of Wiki Engines, equivalent to 17 printed pages!
This sounds more dreadful than the experience of looking for a blogware!
So far I have tried
DokuWiki. It has a very simple and nice interface, WYSIWYG for editing, backtrack, revision history, doesn't require a database. Only problem I have so far is making it to run under Linux when I do not have root privilege. Once again, I am stuck.
I am not going to list all the wikis that I am going to try this time. I have a few more in mind. Perhaps I will write a little review and comparison of the ones I try next time. =)
To be continued...
Fish snack and pet fish
No technology or internet talk for a day.. woohoo.. No quoting on news, either. How crazy is this?
I must be out of my mind.
No, not because I don't talk about my beloved computer/gadget/internet related topics. But I just want to be a bit "personal" today. Ya.. Just a bit.
Once again, I must be out of my mind. How weird do you think it is to eat fish jerky in front of your pet fish?
I am going to take care of my once-beloved-now-been-adopted betta fish for a week. Before I take them over to my cubicle, I was enjoying my fish snack that my friend brought for me from China. Oh, they are soooo delicious. I drooled, okay, almost, when I saw them in my friend's hands. I wanted to bark and run over her and lick her face like a 83lb puppy. I love that stuff, totally irresistible...
So when I was biting tearing and drooling, I suddenly felt weird when I saw the two fish bowls in front of me. Would they know that I am eating their distant keen? I feel self-conscious that they might watch me intensely eating their
(father's sister's distant uncle's grandmother's cousin's ancestor's distant great great grandfather's great great great son's long-lost brother's wife's sister's son-in-law's brother's ancestor's ancestor's descendant's descendant)^36... o_O"
WOULD THEY KNOW?
p.s. seems like quite a few people have trouble understanding ^36. It's C/C++'s way of writing "to the power of 36." It's old school. ;)
Non-standard Server Messages
I have been hitting 404 server messages a lot lately when I was testing my website. I got sick of it pretty quickly. It kept looking for some pages that did not exists. Sometimes it was due to wrong paths in the program, or application configuration, or Apache ModRewrite rules... Oh obii.. Anyhow, I began to appreciate some non-default non-standard server message. =)
From Gmail:
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
From Orkut: (you get this pretty often as you browse there long enough. ;p)
Bad, bad server. No donut for you
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Unfortunately, the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a few minutes.
It's likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months. We apologize for the inconvenience and for our server's lack of consideration for others.
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From Bomb Site:
(you gotta see it yourself. =)
Try:
http://thebombsite.com/wordpressmingus/txp/
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Anybody has some more?
