I’ve moved hosting providers from the atrocious Dreamhost to the more website-friendly HostDiscovery.

Thanks to Dave for the video find.

Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke died today. He was 90 years old.

Clarke’s 3 Laws of Prediction:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

He’ll be missed, Dave.

This weekend I finished migrating this blog over to WordPress, thus ending a six-month experiment with Typo, the WordPress-like blog tool built on top of the web application framework Ruby on Rails. I originally went to Typo for two reasons: To evaluate RoR performance on my ISP (The much-maligned Dreamhost) and to keep up with the numerous blog platforms available floating about in the ether. In the end, I gained a better understanding of some determining success factors for open source software projects.

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