about this weblog…
Note: This is all way obsolete
welcome, dear reader! you are reading the weblog of patrick niemeyer. i should not be confused with various other patrick niemeyers the world has known or who google knows more intimately (like the peace
corps volunteer or the guy who wrote the java book). i’m the patrick niemeyer you’ll find if you traverse to google links 81-90 and then look for the page listing upcoming.org
users. UPDATE: Since signing up for adwords I got to about #65 in Google (which I’m assured should have nothing to do with adwords) and about I’m about #32 in Windows Live Search. therefore I have no choice but to replace the Google search box with Live Search. i’ve found live search equal to or better than google in a bunch of ways lately, anyway.
this blog is based on rael dornfest’s excellent blosxom platform and with a few of its plugins for comments, syndication, the calendar view, and a few other things. i use the webservice provided by captchas.net to do verification on comment posts and prevent comment
spam.
my blog is hosted by dominet, who have combined able hosting, support, and reasonable prices. if you are in the market for a linux based host, i definitely recommend them
(and thanks to nick for referring me to them!)
occasionally i post entries to my blog from my phone using a modified flavor and the wikieditish plugin for blosxom. those entries (including this one!) are usually recognizable by their lack of formatting and hyperlinks (special characters are a relative pain with my phone’s keyboard) as well as higher density of typos (partially the keyboard, partially me being a modern spell check cripple). please forgive me. for this post i have done some post-processing to fix typos and add links, though.
when i do post from my phone, that is with an hp h6315 pocketpc phone. i recommend the windowsce line of pdas and think they have gotten to the point of integration where it is definitely worth considering a pocketpc phone or smartphone, but the h6315 (which is about a year old by now) has a few obvious annoyances and while i would not advise someone against getting one, i can’t really advocate
it. when i’m on the go, i use the mobile flavor of this site to see if anything has broken.
I also have a cat named Jupiter and dog named Io - sometimes good friends help take care of them.
here are some qr codes that used to be on my navigation bar:
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this entry will be updated directly as seems necessary. thanks for visiting!