After completing the really basic training on Apple’s Weblog solution that made its debut in Mac OS X 10.4 Server, I decided to give this a try. Since it was mid-2005 you could tell, Apple was late to the party because most people who knew anything about this style of writing/posting/hosting used better, more powerful, customizable solutions such as WordPress (2003) and Drupal (2001), not the Java-driven Blosjom (sic). It certainly didn’t impress Apple’s dedicated customers. Mac OS X Server 10.5 went with something built from the ground up and I rarely recalled any serious support calls.
The shift to ‘blog also provided something to take my mind off of how much I was missing Somara working in Phoenix. It was nice to go with a tool I could just whip out stories with on the fly. I had been doing it the “hard” way for years with GoLive. I also have the bits and pieces from my PageMill days in the late Nineties! Good stuff.
I wish these were happier times to celebrate a decade this incarnation of Maggi Picayune. There have been varying storm clouds for some weeks; they weren’t all about nor around me neither, seems some friends in my orbit have been encountering their own struggles. I have “powered through” by posting like crazy since I wanted to hit 4000 posts by today, I fell short by 19, damn it.
On the Media‘s last show was dedicated to Plan B should we experience an EMP burst which would wipe out all the digital crap we’ve done. Hell, many things from merely a decade ago are unreadable thanks to planned obsolesce (this is what happens when tech is driven by Capitalism). It’s seriously got me thinking about “archiving” past things to paper. Similar to what I used to do in the Nineties after making a print copy of Maggi Picayune for my friends. Somewhere in the storage shed is the box with all the final copies of what I wrote to them…fonts, graphics and all.
Let’s see what the next year has in store for everyone, not just me even though this site is all about me.