What it takes to blog

Seven days on, and I’m blogging. It took that long to get sorted: finding a host, registering a domain, configuring my blogware. Here’s the colophon and name-check:

http://coopblue.com/blog/%year%/%month%/%slug-name%

  • anti-spam plugins: Kitten’s Spam Words and Three Strikes SPAM (update: now using Spam Karma 2 and Bad Behavior)

  • post-by-email: via secret e-mail account and a cron job (calling curl rather than GET, on my host)

I installed Instiki locally as my personal wiki for note-taking. This kept my ahead above water for all the fiddling I did, the usernames and obscure passwords created and mis-remembered.

It’s getting near my bed time. Much more, later.

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    I’m still not sure how Spam Karma works…

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