I am a Geek

geek, n.: A person who is interested in technology, especially computing and new media. Geeks are adept with computers, and use the term hacker in a positive way, though not all are hackers themselves. A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one who passionately pursues skill and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance. (Wikipedia)

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Blog Relaunch

All those sick days (of the last three weeks, I’ve spent two in bed) had one advantage: I had time to tackle some things.

One of those things was consolidating my old Serendipity blog and the current one, running on Drupal, into one Wordpress blog. I wanted to switch from Drupal to Wordpress because WP is more focused on blogging and there are some features (e.g. trackbacks, remote blogging via XML-RPC) that Drupal doesn’t do as well.

It took me about 12 hours of Perl hacking to write a converter that reads posts and comments from a source database (Drupal or S9Y) and writes them into a destination database (WP). So, all posts since 2004 including their comments should have made their way into the new blog!

Let’s see if the new possibilities help me in writing posts in shorter intervals. Of course, that’s what I’ve been telling myself for weeks now.

I just started my first tumblelog

From time to time, there are some random things I’d like to point my friends to. So far, I’ve either posted them on Twitter or in a short entry on my blog here.

A few days ago, I took a look at Tumblr and decided to start my own seperate tumblelog. That way, I can focus my blog here on the more elaborate entries.

So, if you’re so inclined, take a look and subscribe to the feed of Associative Disarray. It should be fun!