Live blog is coming back

In preparation for major changes to the website, I’m doing some housecleaning. I’m saddened that Posterous is shutting down… To keep our existing posts alive, I am moving our LIVE subdomain here back in WordPress. What’s unclear is how well the archived data will meld into the website. I plan to use the techniques outlined in a recent WordPress dev post:

• http://wpmu.org/how-to-migrate-from-posterous-to-wordpress/

Next up, RSS

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The future of Feedburner is unclear so I’m taking the subdomain “RSS” and keeping it as a standard A-Record until I find a polished alternative, in the event Feedburner goes officially belly-up.

Theme change

I admit, my 2011 theme wasn’t done well and was rushed out the door. “Pedestal of the Lunar Fang” was my adaptation (child theme) of WordPress’s Twenty Eleven parent theme and served as a way for me to understand the child theme process, inherited CSS, and proper customization workflow. The next theme, launching spring 2013, will also be a child theme but from a different source. If I have edits, I will publish them in my GitHub repository.

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After about a week with this new TV exclusively on Boxee, I miss the grand polish and simplicity of Apple TV. The YouTube Leanback app on Boxee was driving me absolutely nuts and the flakiness/inconsistency of the other apps made me want to throw it out the window. Its saving grace was the Crunchyroll, Navi-X, and fitness channel apps.

The Apple TV has limited channel sources so far but what little it carries, it presents them very well and very intuitively. AirPlay is a big bonus and if iOS 4.3 allows Crunchyroll videos from iPhone/iPad to stream to Apple TV then the Boxee looks even worse. Don’t get me started on the fact that Netflix support is STILL absent on Boxee. On Apple TV it’s a cinch to use!

I have to keep reminding myself that Boxee’s killer feature is its ability to stream local LAN content of nearly any type (AVI, WMV, RVMB, MKV+subtitles, MP4, etc) from any sort of UPnP or SMB share –in my case, $200 whitebox PC running FreeNAS.

Jennifer Van Grove from the high-powered social media site Mashable wrote a great, comprehensive article about Google Maps and how to take advantage of its various features beyond simple address searches.

Excerpt:
Google Maps has become the standard mapping utility for everything from getting directions and finding nearby food options to viewing the surface of the moon. Are you getting the most out of your Google Maps experience? Keep reading to get some helpful hints on how to maximize (or minimize) all your mapping desires. 

See entire article at Mashable…