But I'm doing it anyway. It's because I trust
you.
Don't let me down...
What is it that I hate?
This:
I'm asking for
advice.
Yeah. I know. You're a guy.
You're not only a guy, but you're a fighter pilot guy. Even if you're not
current. You don't ask advice. It
simply isn't done.
Whatever: I'm
thinking of migrating from the iBlog tool to something more, I dunno: Powerful.
Crazy, I know - one of my first blog posts was about the allure of
"power," as it pertains to computing. It ain't all good. Sure, "power" is a sexy
beast. But the fact that it's one should not be allowed to obscure the fact that
it's also the other. So.
But! While
iBlog was a good engine to get me off of top-dead center in the blogging world,
it's starting to feel a little. Mmm. Restrictive. You could call this adolescent
rebellion, but I'm afraid that right now? I know a great deal more about
adolescent rebellion than I would truly care to know, and this ain't in it.
Different ball park. Different whole league. Not even the same game. Trust me.
After all, I'm trusting you.
Anyways.
I'm down to choosing between MovableType and WordPress, and leaning towards
WordPress .
Because it's free, and everything. Open source, too. Which is a good thing, I'm
reliably informed. Everyone says so. On top of the price. Which is free. And
therefore hard to beat.
But I'm pretty
sure (not entirely, but pretty) that you can't host a WordPress blog on the dot
Mac server. Which is a damned shame, because I've got all that server space over
there, and it's already paid for. No bandwidth constraints either.
Not that I've had a problem with that.
But who knows? Maybe someday...
It's
clear to me, having gone through the documentation, that I could host a blog
right here on my own machine at home. Except that I'm all firewalled off with an
Apple Airport Extreme Base Station, which, because I followed the Good Book's
guidance and went forth to be fruitful, and multiply, allows the resultant
progeny to connect their machines wirelessly. And I'm not entirely sure how the
rest of you are going to get past that firewall to my hard drive. Or that I want
you too.
And the goal is that not only
do I have a more professional looking blog, with lots and lots of (unexploited)
power - call it: room to grow - but that I can fling up the occasional thing I
notice while away from my home computer. A server-based solution, in other
words, rather than a machine based solution. And it's not entirely clear to me
that this is possible in a cross-platform environment.
Could I build a blog and host it on my
home machine - a G5 Mac that you'll wrest from my cold, dead hands (unless you
buy me a replacement G6) - and also send updates from my cell phone or (God
forbid) workplace Wintel machine? Or
not.
Because if I go to one of these
monthly fee web servers, then I'll have to do the distasteful act of rattling
the tip jar a bit more often than I have done so far. And you know you don't
want me going there...
In sum, being
short: Movable Type of WordPress? Local hosting, or web hosting service?
Possible to cross-platform post, or not? All the world
wonders... -
"Be plain, good son, and homely in
thy drift;
Riddling confession finds but
riddling shrift."
- W.S. Shakespeare,
Romeo and
Juliet, Act 2, Scene
3
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