Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Although it hasn’t helped me find a job, I’ve continued to build stuff with PHP. I’ve also been brushing up on my Objective-C. After upgrading to use Version 2 of the GData (YouTube) API I had to upgrade to Version 1.1 of the Twitter API. This took a lot more work especially trying to meet [...]

I read recently about a woman in Alaska who makes her living blogging about woodworking. Apparently that is another niche I missed out on when I set up Muskblog and Muschamp.ca, I’ve always liked working with wood. Ana White’s website supposedly gets 100,000 of readers a month, enabling her to sell advertisements and pay for [...]

During my most recent period of unemployment, I’ve tried to brush up on some of my skills, perversely one thing I’ve spent a lot of time doing is writing PHP. I’m not a big fan of PHP, but I seem to have written and most importantly maintained some code I used to make web mashups, [...]

I’ve had a website online for a long time, longer than most corporations, and for the last ten or so years it has been at Muschamp.ca hosted mostly by a company that called DixieSys. There are a lot of crappy webhosts out there, the first cheap one I tried basically sold more bandwidth than he [...]

I wasn’t the first to say it, but it is something I’ve noticed for a long time in my own social media usage, Twitter is #winning. Twitter has gotten a lot of credit for breaking news stories, for helping activists and rebels organize, and now it has become the favourite of marketers and sports fans. [...]