nice to be appreciated
I got an email the other day from a guy thanking me for providing instructions on how to flip your display back the right way up when you (or someone else) has pressed the key combination to turn it upside down. This happened to me, so I blogged it here in the troubleshooting section of this site. Looking at my logs I can see that that is a popular post, and the troubleshooting section in general gets a lot of hits.
The troubleshooting section, along with a few other obscure sections on this site, I deliberately keep out of the way, because I still like to think that some people read this site for general entertainment rather than just a techie resource, and getting emails like the one the other day thanking me for the help reminds me that it is important to keep that stuff up there in any potential migration to another blog system (wordpress or quills are the current candidiates).
On that subject I haven’t made any moves towards migrating the blog since I was on about it before. I decided quills wasn’t quite ready, and my ability to contribute towards getting it ready is hampered by a lack of spare time - I just want hypothecate in a state I can use it rather than having to maintain the software aswell. Wordpress is ready to go and i’ve already done an experimental migration, but i’m not sure what i’m going to gain by having a stop-gap system in place, because ultimately I want something plone based.
I guess it is a question of how selfish I want to be about this - although I benefit from other people doing the work and bugfixing on systems like quills (which has, incidentally, been handed over to the plone foundation now I believe - at least is about to be if it hasn’t already), I really should be contributing by using it and helping fix bugs…