a timocracy of one

As you can no doubt see, this blog has return from its hiatus. As I’ve complained about before, running Typo on Dreamhost isn’t that dependable, so while I was busy wrapping up the sale of my condo and then moving to Tucson, I let it slide. But now that I am somewhat settled in, I’ve gotten around to the updating, tweaking, and praying required to get everything working again, and will probably be keeping a little closer eye on it.

I’ve turned on various spam protection measures (such as Akismet, disabling non-ajax commenting. moderation, etc), and am hoping that will alleviate some of the performance issues. If not I am thinking of moving onto a new system- looking for something that is less of a pain for me to maintain with this set-up, since I will be needing to get a job, and thus will have better things to do with my time than getting frustrated with Typo/Dreamhost-fcgi. I’ve been considering the newest kid on the block in the Rails blogging world SimpleLog, but maybe things will stay functional enough that I don’t have to go down that road and spend more time converting everything over.

Either way, I’ll be posting again here some, as I work on finally getting the Lost River Outfitter’s site updated with the new functionality that I promised them as a Christmas present ages ago, and then finally get around to playing with some of my ideas for InfoSauce 2.0. If I get a non-tech job (like my plan to work in a bike shop), I’ll probably be willing to spend more of my spare time developing, but either way I’ll try and post semi-regularly as I come across cool stuff.

As well, I’ll probably be working on getting the design updated with Stf’s work (after I feedback to her on the first round logo stuff), so I can get rid of the stupid placeholder header image, fixing the homepage nav in Safari, putting my resume up, and other house-keeping as I have time.

Usually I patch together some dead reckoning summaries at the last minute to send to the accountant who does my family’s taxes, but I am going to be trying to get my books in order before the end of the year this time. Since I’ve rented out, fixed up, and am trying to sell my condo I really need to do this, just to track my deductions.

Well, some of my good friends run DimeWise, a very Web 2.0 finance manager, so I’ll be giving that a shot. At five bucks a month it couldn’t hurt to try it, and I have a free account, anyways. As such, it’s quite likely I will be posting here about my experiences, over the next however long it takes me.

I’ve been fairly busy with the combination of fixing my condo up to sell and helping out on the app for the #caboose Rails documentation project. I’ll probably be posting some thoughts and things I learned working on that soon, and then I’m off to my granpa’s funeral for a week, so silence again.

I need to get Steph to whip up a real logo or something, one of these days. I just wanted to swap out the InfoSauce logo, because even though I like it, this is my personal blog, so I busted out a copy of Inkscape and went wild.