I switched to running Ubuntu on my Thinkpad. I’m very pleased with the experience. The install was painless, and everything thus far has just worked. It really feels like linux is maturing on the desktop.
I’ve also installed a shiny new tool, Gnome Blog. It’s a panel applet that makes it easy to enter blog posts. [...]

I’m just testing the gnome-blog client.

I recently finished upgrading
href=”http://typo.leetsoft.com/”>Typo (the software that runs
href=”http://innocuous.org/ntsh/”>Nothing To See Here) from 1.6.8
to 2.0.x, and at the same time moved my local changes into
href=”http://subversion.tigris.org/”>Subversion. Subversion is a
definite improvement over
href=”http://www.gnu.org/software/cvs/”>CVS. Being able to
rearrange my repository (I did this twice before I was happy with it)
was really nice. Once I was used to it, I gained the [...]

I took most of my evening last night to set up FastCGI and lighttpd. My goal was to serve a Typo, a blog engine based on RubyOnRails. I was thwarted by not knowing RubyOnRails very well, and by knowing FastCGI and lighttpd not at all.
The first issue was that Typo doesn’t like to run in [...]

I’m currently using BloGTK with Typo and am not all that happy with it. I’m not a big fan of GUIs. I should find something command line based.

I’m trying out Typo, web log software, and liking it. It uses Ruby On Rails, and seems to work quite well.