This is where I’m going to output everything I want to. Partially it’s to keep track of what I’m doing and thinking, and also because some of it could be interesting to someone. I’m also thinking about a project or two that I want to start and need a place to organise my thoughts.

So this is the first post of my new blog. I got it up and running about two days ago. It’s the latest stable version of WordPress (3.2.1). that’s running on top of a basic LAMP stack:

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

I just discovered the <pre> tag.

The stack is hosted on a TonidoPlug device plugged into the wall beside me. It’s a really awesome little thing – a super power-efficient, tiny little server.

The plug runs Ubuntu 9.04 out of the box (at least it did when I bought it earlier in the year) but will first try to boot into any OS you have on an external hard drive plugged into the USB. Apparently newer versions of Ubuntu support ARM chips, which is what the plug has, but I decided to give up and revert to the custom 9.04 images Tonido provides after spending most of a day trying to upgrade/install a newer Ubuntu version. The OS is located on a 1TB Seagate USB drive attached to the plug.

It looks like this:

but apparently there’s a TonidoPlug2 now, that looks a lot blacker and sleeker.

It’s perfect for hosting a small personal website or blog like this. It’s definitely preferable to remote hosting for what I want to do.