My first blog with an iPod touch. Not as painful as I thought it would be. More on it later .

squarespace sponsors a lot of the podcasts i listen to so i thought i’d give it a shot. the thing i was interested in the most were the stats.

hmmm, where to start. ok, it’s not for beginners, and it’s not for anyone who wants to do something really advanced. and it’s not for intermediate bloggers either. i’m not really sure who the intended audience is supposed to be i had a problem at all stages.

first i chose a template. i was disappointed at the lack choice. but because i was testing a trial account, i picked one i thought i was half interesting and tried to work with it.

once i had the template i tried to do two things i thought would have been obvious. one, i tried to change the colour of part of the template, but it couldn’t be done, clicking on the section i wanted and changing the colour didn’t change what i thought was highlighted, only part of it.
two, i tried adding a widget for comments. not possible but at least the comments can be accessed from any post.

finally the showstoper. tried to import my current blog (ie. this one). i tried each method. i couldn’t do it via login, but i got a “successful” import via a previous xml export. problem was that it didn’t show up on the journal page (yes i checked the structure menu, etc.) nada.

so 1 day into my 14 day trial (giving it a good couple of hours) and i think i’m done with squarespace.

i can only describe my first use of boxee has s dismal failure. granted i was using it under snow leopard but there were two issues that make the program distinctly unfriendly to use.

when boxee fires up you have to login. why? what if i’m only going to access local content? is it for the “social networking” aspect? if so what if i don’t want to get or send any recommendations? dumb idea, i expect when it gets out of beta there will be workarounds from people who feel the same way.

and speaking of local content why do these media aggregators make it so hard to get at your local content? ok i didn’t read any boxee docs but it should have been relatively intuitive to set and use a local directory.

plex makes you jump through a few hoops also. but works for the local content.

and front row doesn’t even let you.

as much as i like using the command line on the mac, BECAUSE it’s a mac i like to use gui software whenever possible.

one of the first things i do on a computer i’m going to use on a regular basis is install the pager most and Vim.

i tried macvim but it was not the vim experience i wanted. i have my .vimrc and .gvimrc in the obvious places but no joy. eventually gave up on it and started using textmate.

i started using macports because there were a few linux programs i wanted to use on the mac, the above mentioned most being one of them.

recently decided to see if there were a gui for macports and found porticus. browing through the software available i found gvim. plugged in my favourite .gvimrc and now i have a real working gvim on the mac.

well that was under leopard, dealing with macports under snow leopard is something i want to tackle when i have the time to do any troubleshooting.

just upgraded to snow leopard. relatively painless. probably spent too much time trying to boot to 64 bit mode using the various tricks. not too worried about that. my boot time is lightening fast compared to what it was, and i saved about 18gb. i’m going through a little withdrawal, missing finderpop a bit…