For quite some time, I’ve been pushing for something and it has been bothering me but lately I’m beginning to lose my patience over the matter. It’s about something that’s to me was as clear as gin but to some other was as muddy as mud and silly as a donkey’s bray. I don’t know how else to make some people see beyond the fence, think outside of the box or at least try to put the money where their mouth is.
I’ve heard of a quote which is a mutated version of the original infinite monkey theorem, saying that if you put a thousand monkeys to a computer, they will come up with a software quite soon enough. I know how remote the quote is from the truth but just for the sake of arguments here; you don’t want to end up managing a thousand monkeys and cleaning up piles of banana peels while they’re hysterically punching on the keyboard, right? Granted that you don’t have to pay them monkeys any money, because they’ll end up buying bananas anyway so might as well keep stocking them with bananas which is probably cheaper when bought in big bulk, right? There you go, a thousand monkeys running around stomping on the floor, hanging from the ceiling and taking turns typing the keyboard.
So, moral of the story is… if you don’t want to pay people for creating something, then go find a thousand monkeys to do it and start planting lots of banana trees.
Monkey business creates a Banana republic, End of Story.
Ever since the emergence of microblogging sites like Facebook and Twitter, I noticed that weblogs are slowly becoming the “traditional” or “yesterday” stuffs. Maybe I’m wrong there but at least that’s how I see it. Either that or my iPhone had turned me into a lazy blogger (but hey I’m writing this from my iPhone).
Today I had some idle time at the office before calling it a day, so I revisited my old weblog, the one sitting on FreeBSD server that’s been comatosed for many, many months. Even before it went into a halt last year, it had already been suffering from lack of entries for quite sometime and probably waiting for a complete halt.
Had a look at it, then I just felt like reviving it. I’m still not sure if I would continue blogging after this but least I will still have my old blog entries available, should the decade old Chuck suddenly decides to strike his trident to the ground and calls it quit.
I copied over the WordPress folder, configured MAMP for the rest of server stuffs and then Googled for some nice (and free) templates. After about fifteen minutes, it was all online ready and alive. The next few minutes was spent to export and import all the old entries from MovableType into WordPress. This shows that WordPress is a much greater and powerful tool compared to other blogging engines. Less than half hour is all it takes.
There were a few corrections that I had to do manually; the images URI inside all entries because of the domain name had changed, but a few lines of regexps solved it almost immediately.
It’s alive, for now.
Now… after spending some time to read again all the silly stuffs I’ve written, this entry is the inaugural post in bringing back my weblog (hopefully) from the coma.
Till then.
Rants & Raves | leafy April 30, 2010 | 
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