A post from somewhere other than my home subnet :-)
Author: John
A Digital Archive
I wonder how many other people out there want this too? I have, on my various computers:
- Email, mostly complete, since about 1993 (ish)
- My music collection
- A few years of photo albums
However, this weekend was a practical first step. I brought up an IMAP server, and started transferring all those archives (over 10 years) to it.
I copped out – having tried to run an OpenBSD server, and hack around on Mac OS X client – I just bought Mac OS X Server, and installed it on my desktop. About 10 minutes later, the server was running. When Apple make it easy, boy do they make it easy! I can access the archive via SSL/IMAP or SSL/HTTP, so most internet connections can reach it. By far the best is my Mac client – spotlight for over 10 years of email is awesome!
A Start of Something
Well, I’ve been wanting a blog for a while. I’ve been following several for a number of years, and there is definitely a budding writer in me (my English teachers would probably be surprised!).I had a go at editthispage, and have been evaluating a few packages on mcaleely.com, on and off, for a couple of years. WordPress 1.x, plog (now something else), and greymatter were all hosted here at one time or another.I’ve been looking for two features:
- Hosted at my own domain
- High quality URLs