A couple WordPress blogs over the weekend

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Heartsong Studios Earthsea Pottery

Over the weekend I created two blogs for my parents, Heartsong Studios and Earthsea Pottery. I’ve used my own hosted server for sites in the past (and do with solyoung.com). I used WordPress as the host this time… Their distributed servers and pricepoint (free.99 + $10 for DNS name server hosting) is better and cheaper than a personally hosted solution.

Each site, soup-to-nuts took less than six hours and were fun weekend projects. The blogs themselves took less than an hour, really, with image editing for Earthsea and the audio cleanup for Heartsong taking the real time.

I need the ability to modify the source of my solyoung.com blog, but if you’re looking for a clean and hosted solution that lets you personalize, WordPress was a good experience.

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Seeded 2025 for Broad Street 10-miler, Sunday May 3rd

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Last year I ran Broad Street with 25,000 other runners and live blogged it (actually, live Twittered and Utterlied). It was a blast. I’m thinking about something similar this year, but probably a modification based on an iPhone app… More on that later this week.

Something cool happened this year that didn’t in the past. The organizers of the race appear to have implemented an automatic seeding algorithm for runners who have raced before. I got seeded 2025, which I’m proud of, but am in no shape to live up to.

We’ll see how this shapes up. My first run after about nine months off was a couple weeks ago. I’m hoping for a 7:30 pace. Runs last week ranged between 7:00 and 8:00 during 4 to 5 mile runs.

This is gonna hurt.

Posted in Running, Twitter, Utterz

iPhone 3.0 as Blogging Platform

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Finally! The new iPhone OS brings something exciting to the table for blogging. It’s rather stupid and trivial, and yes, other devices have had it for years. Copy and Paste finally makes the iPhone a decent blogging platform.

Until now it was impossible to offer decent linking, which is one of the most important aspects of a blog – sharing information.

It’s still not the easiest to post. switching between apps can be a pain, but for one or two links, it’s finally possible.

The pic in this post has nothing to do with the content, but was taken with my iPhone.

— Posted via iPhone 3G

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