nothoo.com » Site News http://blog.nothoo.com meritorious marginalia Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Thoughts on Blogging Again… http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/11/26/thoughts-on-blogging-again/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/11/26/thoughts-on-blogging-again/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:58:17 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/11/26/thoughts-on-blogging-again/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This blog has never been focused, literate, thought-out, or widely read. Because of all of this I have more often than not though of blogging as a chore. Maybe in the beginning heady days, or after the many long hiatuses (like this?), maybe then it was exciting. Anyhow, I am considering diving back in with a foodie blog. I have always had foodie type posts mixed in but it was never my focus. I have been cooking a lot recently and have been devouring cooking and foodie books. I think that if I do start in again I need to figure out my focus. Local food, home cooking, restaurants, … all of the above?

Anyhow, I just might be coming back.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/11/26/thoughts-on-blogging-again/feed/ 2 The End? http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/08/10/the-end/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/08/10/the-end/#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:35:29 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/08/10/the-end/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I have been posting to this blog on and off since February 2002. I had another blog that was pretty much the same idea as this one before, but it was hosted and I lost all the posts. I started that one in the fateful days after September 11 2001. Before that I had a plain old website that I hosted via my ISP. I created and maintained that site since I was in college circa 1994 until I created nothoo.com. That is about 13 years! I have started, and abandoned in some cases, various other blogs and sites over the years. All of this reminiscing is because I am going to close the doors on this blog. I am not sure if I am going to keep the site running or not, though I do plan to keep my only other active web presence, Fairfax Birding going.

In case you were wondering the most popular post that I ever made, to any blog was this one.

So, its over and out…

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/08/10/the-end/feed/ 1 Test Blogging From TextMate http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/06/26/test-blogging-from-textmate/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/06/26/test-blogging-from-textmate/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:33:39 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/06/26/test-blogging-from-textmate/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Textmate is reason enough alone to own a Mac. I am just now trying out the blogging bundle and it is really quite awesome. One of the biggest barriers to more frequent blogging, at least for me, is the PITA that it is to open a browser, go to the admin interface of one of my blogs, type it all up in an ugly HTML form and then submit it. It is primarily because of this that I have been doing most of my posting via my nothoo Tumblr. Tumblr is a very cool application but I do not like that I do not have absolute control over the server and my posts. With the TextMate blogging bundle it looks like my woes will be solved, at least if I am at my Mac. Posting from my work machine (running Ubuntu Linux) will not be so smooth but then again I probably should not be posting from work. Right Frank? ;-)

Here is what it looks like from within TextMate. This is an update so there are all kinds of fancy details in the header section:

Blogging With Textmate

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/06/26/test-blogging-from-textmate/feed/ 0 About the Nothoo Server http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/06/18/about-the-nothoo-server/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/06/18/about-the-nothoo-server/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:14:39 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/06/18/about-the-nothoo-server/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Help me if I ever get Dugg. For the past 5 years this site has been running on the same server. The server hardware has changed very little, the OS has gone from Windows 2000 Server to Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux. The hardware specs are kind of humorous:

  • AMD Athlon 900mhz
  • 1GB 133mhz SDRAM
  • 250GB of mirrored hard drive space
  • A 32mb Geforce Video Card
  • USB 1.1!!!
  • ADSL 1.5/128 Connection provided by the wonderful folks at Transbeam

I built this machine from parts back in the Fall of 2000 or thereabouts. It has been running almost constantly since then. There have been several hard drive failures, until I switched to Western Digital drives which so far have been very good. The only other hardware failure was the CPU fan. I had to replace that about 6 months ago. This server hosts not only nothoo.com, but also my other sites (some of which are currently fallow): fairfaxbirding.com, nielsclark.com, and brainonblog.com (remember when this site was called Brain on Blog?).

As far as software goes I have been through the gamut of blogging software. I started on the original blogger but it frustrated me so I decided I needed my own server. I then became an early adopter of MovableType and actually gave them money back when it was not mandatory! Getting that running on Windows with IIS was not fun. I then spent a brief period of time on BlogCMS, and one or two other Java based systems. None of these lasted very long. I finally moved to Wordpress sometime 3 or so years ago and have not regretted it.

There you go, not that you asked or that you care.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/06/18/about-the-nothoo-server/feed/ 0 10,000th Visitor http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/05/11/10000th-visitor/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/05/11/10000th-visitor/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 20:52:03 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/05/11/10000th-visitor/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> It has only taken 5 years of on again off again posting to this blog for it to reach its 10,000 visitor. Thanks to both readers for visiting 5000 times each! It even looks like the 10000th visitor was my brother (based on the SiteMeter logs at least).

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/05/11/10000th-visitor/feed/ 0 Tumblr http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/04/04/tumblr/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/04/04/tumblr/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:02:05 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/04/04/tumblr/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I am playing around with a new way of posting to my blog, it is Tumblr. You can find my Tumbler here. RSS is supported so you can subscribe to the feed also.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/04/04/tumblr/feed/ 0 mii have a wii!!! http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/02/12/mii-have-a-wii/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/02/12/mii-have-a-wii/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:52:07 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/02/12/mii-have-a-wii/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> yep i now have a wii. in fact i am writing this post from my wii. yes it is insane to use the wiimote for so much typing. anyhow fry`s had poor communication but they came through in the end!

the wii rocks!

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/02/12/mii-have-a-wii/feed/ 0 Hard Drive Failure = Downtime http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/12/15/hard-drive-failure-downtime/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/12/15/hard-drive-failure-downtime/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:03:58 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/12/15/hard-drive-failure-downtime/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Thank goodness for backups! I took the opportunity (if you can call it that) of my primary hard drive crashing to go ahead and abandon Windows in favor of Linux, Ubuntu to be exact. I have been using it on my work laptop and love it so it seemed natural to put it on my server. I think that I have all of the glitches worked out, also upgraded WordPress to the latest 2.0 release. Let me know if you see any issues.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/12/15/hard-drive-failure-downtime/feed/ 1 My Brother http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/11/my-brother/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/11/my-brother/#comments Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:07:27 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/11/11/my-brother/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> My brother too has a blog. He was even interviewed by another blog author. Check it out, especially if you are at all interested in the world of trading stocks for a living. Reading his blog, in spite of my being a rather profound ignoramus when it comes to trading stocks, I find myself drawn to the world of day-trading.

P.S., don’t forget to look at the goat video in the previous post.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/11/my-brother/feed/ 1 DIY Google Search http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/10/24/diy-google-search/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/10/24/diy-google-search/#comments Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:58:34 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/10/24/diy-google-search/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I am playing around with Google’s build your own search feature. It is pretty cool. I am going to stick the search over on the sidebar and keep refining it.

Mine is a Birds, Birding, etc… search. Try it out:


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