Vanderbrew » Blog http://vanderbrew.com/blog The shared bits Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:04:36 +0000 en hourly 1 Rebooting the blog http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2010/02/15/rebooting-the-blog/ http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2010/02/15/rebooting-the-blog/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:05:02 +0000 matt http://vanderbrew.com/blog/?p=260 After letting it languish for well over a year, I’ve decided to return to the blog. I’ve realized that my life is marked by consumption. I’m subscribed to hundreds of blogs, I listen to audio books, I watch movies and videos online – but it’s all passive. There’s no synthesis. There’s no creation.

I know that I’ve got thoughts and ideas. I know we’re doing neat things around the house. I know that I’ve got things to share. I just need to make the effort to do more than simply consume.

With all that in mind, I’ve upgraded WordPress and installed a new, cleaner theme. I also really stripped down the categories because I felt like they were just too unwieldy. If you find something broken, let me know and I’ll see what I can do to fix it.

So, keep an eye on this space – the blog will be more than it was before and the focus will be changing. There will be less of the simple, one-off, un-related posts and more actual content. I’ve been working on some AppleScripts to help me keep track of stuff that I’ll be sharing and I’m going to talk more about what we’re doing around the house, in addition to internet technology thoughts at large.

]]> http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2010/02/15/rebooting-the-blog/feed/ 2 Books are back http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2007/07/03/books-are-back/ http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2007/07/03/books-are-back/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:55:36 +0000 matt http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2007/07/03/books-are-back/ I finally got my Currently Reading and Currently Listening widgets going again (fed by LibraryThing). They’ve been off since I upgraded my theme a while ago.

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I’m going to try to post more often what with the house-building coming up so that people are more aware of what’s going on there and I felt like I wanted a more advanced blog infrastructure so we’ll see how it plays out.

]]> http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2007/01/15/blog-upgrade-and-feedburner/feed/ 1 I’m not dead yet… http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2007/01/15/im-not-dead-yet/ http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2007/01/15/im-not-dead-yet/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:30:43 +0000 matt http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2007/01/15/im-not-dead-yet/ …and I can’t even claim to have been sick. No, just busy with lots of stuff and never really finding the time to blog – but I’m gonna try to make up for it.

]]> http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2007/01/15/im-not-dead-yet/feed/ 4 Subscribing to your own RSS feed http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2006/01/24/subscribing-to-your-own-rss-feed/ http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2006/01/24/subscribing-to-your-own-rss-feed/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:43:09 +0000 matt http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2006/01/24/subscribing-to-your-own-rss-feed/ I’m curious if anyone else out there subscribes to their own RSS feed. I’ve done it for as long as I’ve had a blog and an aggregator. It just plain makes sense to me. At first Amber thought it was odd, but I think that she’s come around to my way of thinking now.

It just makes sense:

  • You can tell that your RSS feed is working
  • You can tell how frequently you’re posting compared to the blogs you read
  • It’s harder to forget to publish a post *cough* Charlie *cough*

So, here’s your opportunity to offer up your views. Do you or don’t you?

]]> http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2006/01/24/subscribing-to-your-own-rss-feed/feed/ 3 “Welcome, to the real world” http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2006/01/09/welcome-to-the-real-world/ http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2006/01/09/welcome-to-the-real-world/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:13:32 +0000 matt http://vanderbrew.com/blog/2006/01/09/welcome-to-the-real-world/ Yes, this is the new home of the Vanderbrew blog powered by WordPress 2.0. The biggest changes from Blogger are a little different design, better LibraryThing tie in (really, I’ll be better about keeping what I’m reading up-to-date), and Categories.

I’m really excited about the categories because now I can throw stuff up here w/out having to quality it and give you, my readers, some sense of the relevance of it all.

Anyway, welcome to the new arena, sit back, and enjoy the musings.

-Matt

PS – bonus points if you can identify where the quote is from

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