My Blogging Platform
After much consideration, I've decided Posterous will be my blogging platform moving forward and my primary blogging URL will be http://www.clintonsecurity.com. Now to move my older posts scattered around the web to this blog.
After much consideration, I've decided Posterous will be my blogging platform moving forward and my primary blogging URL will be http://www.clintonsecurity.com. Now to move my older posts scattered around the web to this blog.
Listen to what the Internet is saying ... I think this could be big!
http://coworkthailand.com/say/
Because there are limited checks on what is entered this is NSFW. But, I could see new versions of IRC or group chat where you could just listen as a lurker (with your ears) instead of reading (with your eyes).
Jason Fried (Source: ITConversations)
Anyone ever see ants form up in star formations like this? There were about two dozen of them in our driveway at about 6am this morning. Strange.
So, I just discovered LyX - The Document Processor. Very nice if you want to write structured documents and have them exported to PDF (or PS or DVI or other formats. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux; Open Source. I'll be writing more about this application soon, I'm sure.
This post is coming from an email address that normally attaches a big disclaimer at the end. I hate those things. Haven't they been proven to be worthless? So why do some organizations still insist on attaching them to outgoing messages? I'm not sure ... I think it keeps the lawyers busy and is used as a scare tactic ... "This message might contain confidential information. Don't forward it, or we'll take you to court!
How about a way to set my own default font, font-size, and font-color?
The WYSIWYG web-based editor seems to need a little work. Changing fonts and font sizes didn't work well for me when I tried it.
How about a way to tell Posterous to automatically strip any signatures that are attached to your email. Perhaps anything after ### in an email post should be ignored? How about a feature to allow user defined text macros, so each time a keyword is in an email post it automatically gets expanded to user definable text (these could be defined in the Manage section of each user's Posterous blog). For example, I've been referring to Posterous a lot in my first few postings. It would be nice if I had a text macro defined that automatically expanded the keyword "Posterous" so that it included a link to the Posterous site (so I wouldn't have to type it manually). Then again, many email clients and operating systems already have text macro features, so one could just use those instead. Posting with Emacs, with it's awesome text macros, could make this a breeze :-) I'd like to have a "Contact Me" form in the sidebar, perhaps with a captcha, so I don't have to put my email address there. I get enough spam already, thank you. Lastly, it would be nice to have at least some control over the colors on the site ... however, I do applaud the minimalist design. It is refreshing.
