FreeSBIE — the FreeBSD-based live CD

I returned to FreeSBIE today. I haven’t reviewed it so well in the past because it’s a bit kludgy. But now that I have many more months of Linux (and X Window System) experience I can approach FreeSBIE and at least get it running.
I forgot that by default, FreeSBIE boots to a shell, not the [...]

WordPress charges for uploads beyond 50 MB

That’s a way to make money. I don’t anticipate uploading anything beyond JPEGs. So how many images is that? Let’s say the average image is 50 KB. Ten such images would total 500 K, 100 would be 5 MB, and 1,000 would be 50 MB.
But not all images are that big (although some might indeed [...]

WordPress vs. Blogger

I’ve only been doing this for a few hours. It’s too early to tell.
One thing that attracted me to WordPress was the built-in statistics. Not that counting up traffic is what this is all about, because it isn’t.
Right out of the box, I’m not super-impressed by the pre-canned blog “themes” in WordPress. I assumed there [...]

The WordPress ‘tag surfer’

I had no idea what the “tag surfer” was. I clicked and found out.
What it does is take you to other WordPress blog posts on topics that match your own. It’s a great way, from their standpoint, to get you to link to other WordPress blogs, and it’s equally great for you because … you [...]