An Update. Since I Like Ranting.
I haven’t really updated too much lately because I can hardly call myself a blogger, or don’t really know what to say. I want to change that so I can actually start getting readers to read my blog, and comment on what things are mentioned. I like reading a bit, I don’t do too much of it systematically. But, I do read. By systematically reading, I mean sitting down with a book and reading content that has been written, and re-written a number of times to fully perfect the content. I don’t know what it is, possibly a lack of inspiration. I love learning, but we all learn in different ways.
Within the past few days I’ve been looking around for a nice personal wiki that I can either run on my laptop which acts like a regular wiki that your browse on the internet, or just a desktop wiki. They’re totally different yet do the same thing. Why do I want a wiki so close to home? Well, I like looking up stuff and finding different things and try to get inspired by them. I like the simple things in life, nothing needs to be overextravigent in daily life. I don’t need a lot of money to get by, but, if this is what getting by means, I’ve done an alright job at it this far. The wiki idea came to me after thinking about just starting to jot down random thoughts and perceptions, but I haven’t really found an easy to use wiki. I know a little about the formating, but it’s a lot different than writing in a blog. There’s a lot of different types of syntax you have to follow to get the formating you want. It hasn’t been an easy to do task, and I haven’t really been successful at it yet.
Here’s a list of Wiki’s I’ve tried.
* Zim Desktop Wiki
* Instiki
* MoinMoin Desktop Edition
* Didiwiki
They all have their own little problems that I don’t like. For example MoinMoin, I couldn’t even start the server up to get working, Instiki was really nice, but, I figured if I were to learn how to use Textile, things would run a lot smoother since that’s the syntax it uses, and a couple others. But, I told myself, if I’m going to learn something that extensive, I might as well go on and learn html and css over again and just make a site. DiDiwiki was quite nice too, it was a very small program that would be adjust well to your liking with CSS, but I didn’t really fool around with that. It has a nice explanations for formating, but it didn’t tell me what I wanted to know. Lastly, Zim Desktop Wiki, this program just sits in your OS just like any other program, you can let it hang out in your notification area, too. It has configurations where you can have many different types of wikis with the program by setting up notebooks. It’s like you’re making your own repository of data which is saved as text files. Inside the text files is wiki formatted content. So, it’s easy to import, or export information.
I think if Zim doesn’t work out, I’m going to try Wikimedia since it’s open source. But, I’ve heard it’s a bit overkill and really hard to set up. And, I’d just use the wiki locally, running from 127.0.0.1, or localhost. Whatever you want to call it.
The overall thing that is making me very agitated is that, I want to bring normality to the plate by adding a menu to the left side of the page which has internal links to parts of the page. I can’t seem to figure it out for the life of me. I’ve almost given up, but I’m going to try one more thing before I give up. That’s to look at Wikimedia formatting and see how they do it, and see if Zim does it similar. If they do, I’ll be greatful and will be able to start writing my content that I’ve been wanting for the past few days, and possibly weeks.
With a wiki you’d think that it’s just another blog, or revision system. But, I find it’ll be a lot different than what wordpress or drupal have to offer. What I really want to do is systematically write down thoughts, revise them into an order that is easily read, and release them onto my blog from the wiki. It’s not only my thoughts, but I’ll be able to write stories, and be able to adjust the content of the writing more precise. This way I can become more selective, and have a really nice blog to share to the world. I have many thoughts and intentions stuck in my head that I should relay to others, and for me — the computer is the gateway to doing.
Thoughts come and go all the time, things are not thought about anymore, not often by sometimes do come back and become more perplexed and seems you think more in depth to where you need to write them down so you can justify where it all comes from and try to making something of it.
On that note, stay tuned for more ranting. Once I find equilibrium, enlightenment, and nirvana, I’ll have plenty of things to write about. Maybe I already have the such things mentioned. Those are three things that I really want to write about very soon, but, it’ll be a long process and a lot of revision.
Bye for now.
Justin
