The New TennesseeTicket

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February 28, 2008

The New TennesseeTicket

I've been playing with new toys in my "spare" time, and I'm once again turning my attention to building an application that would present customizable candidate lists to visitors, as opposed to the static HTML pages that I've sort of hacked out of MovableType templates in the past. The past seven years of project methodology exposure at my day job has conditioned me to lay out a high-level overview first, and I'm just at that stage; but I'm also pretty convinced that my solution will involve PHP, MySQL, and Apache. Hence the new (free!) toys.

Then — because it was, like, super easy to install Wordpress on a local server using MAMP — I will probably wave a fond farewell to Movable Type, get my own server space [Bluehost? or someone], and install the new TT with the blog as a component of the overall site, or "inside out" from what we have had here. Times are tight, but I find hosting rates to be quite affordable.

I won't have to leave Chattablogs altogether, though, because some time back they started aggregating non-Chattablogs feeds on their main page. Cool deal. I'm nowhere near making this move, so I'm just announcing my intent in the spirit of blogging transparency.

In other news, a snippet of my Barack Obama endorsement found its way onto the pages of The New Republic (thanks to Sean Braisted for the tip). (Full article)

I was telling my lunchtime friends about being quoted, and one of them asked if the magazine was William Buckley's. I said that no, Buckley's is the National Review. Later, I was looking up a TNR link to send to my friends, and the first entry on the mini-feed from The Plank was simply titled "William F. Buckley, Jr., RIP." That's how I learned of the esteemed conservative's death, and it's somehow fitting that my source was a respectful obit in a rival publication.

Stay tuned; it's going to be an eventful year.

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