Nix Bits

I use Blosxom to run this here blog. It’s simple to set up and does everything I need. And it also means I can write entries in a text editor “like God intended”. I looked at some of the various blog services but those didn’t interest me. I have an apache server and a domain after all. And of course I preferred something Open Source. Blosxom fits the bill

One way to post is of course using good ole vim/vi inside an ssh session. But instead I work on my laptop remotely where I have a mirror of my blog directory structure. I use rsync to sync up the whole shebang. It looks like this from inside my local mirror of the blog: rsync --rsh="ssh" -avz --progress . www.scottharney.com:/path/to/blog/scotth
Very quick. And syncing back the other way is just as simple just switching up the “.” and the “www.scottharney.com…” parts. I use “–delete” when I need to prune up in one direction or the other.