I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to save all the little snippets of stuff I find on the web — pictures, quotes, links to articles, and so on.  ReadItLater is a way to save links to web pages I don’t have time to read right now, but I don’t have it synchronized across my multiple computers.  Also, it only handles the links.  Google Notebook is another option I’m using but it’s better for more detailed stuff, or when I need to add comments to pages and such.

A blog would work as well, but I don’t want to clutter up Art of the Firebird with miscellaneous uncategorized stuff that probably is meaningful only to me. I could create a sidebar, but that still leaves me using the WordPress interface, which is overkill for this sort of thing.

What I need is an application that lets me create what Skellie calls a “swipe file,” accessible anywhere I have access to the web. So on her recommendation (and a few others) I decided to try Tumblr.  I can quickly store all my snippets there, feed a few into my sidebar here, and we’ll see how it works.  I’ll report once I’ve used it for a couple of weeks.

Check it out — Art of the Firebird’s Tumblelog.

I finally tried to work a little bit today on the PHP mailing list for CCSC:SE. I followed the directions for editing the config.php file, inserted all the data Hunter had given me, and oops! It couldn’t find the database. This exchange of email followed:

Okay, Hunter, maybe I’m just an idiot. I just got back to this, changed the config.php file to put in the information you gave me, and get a Fatal Error saying unknown database.

I was also thinking about installing WordPress in my public_html area, but it’s not happy because there’s no wordpress database for it to find and there’s no way for me to automagically create it, apparently. Damn, this was so easy at my own web hosting service — they provide us with Fantastico which makes everything a no-brainer.

Can you help me some more ::sheepish grin::?

Thanks,

Julia

I’m not sure, but I think I get the idiot title this time… I think what happened was that I did all the prep-work for creating a DB for you, but I didn’t actually create the DB. (Oops!)

I’ve created the DB now, so things should behave a little better for you now…

I think I’m supposed to tell you to talk w/ (the web master)before installing any blogging software like WordPress. If she doesn’t have a problem with it, I’ll be happy to help you get that up and running…

–Hunter