Dave Kellam

I jumped the gun a little bit and didn’t wait for all the news to trickle down, although Six Apart did change things slightly. I’m fine under the free license for now, and will probably be purchasing it at some point during the summer.

From the sidebar on the purchase page:

• Author counts are based on “active” authors, those that have logged in within the last 90 days
• Weblog counts are based on “active” weblogs, those that have had posts created within the last 90 days
• One site at one URL counts as a weblog for your license, even if it is made up of more than one weblog in the software

That takes care of most of my initial problems with the licensing. I grabbed the Developer Edition of MT 3.0 and installed it last night. I’m going to have to update my templates at some point. I have a redesign of the site in the works right now. I’ll be moving the weblog to /log at some point. I’ve changed the archive links to reflect that (although the old ones should work still) and I’ll be migrating to individual archive posts at some point in the near future.

It doesn’t surprise me at all that Six Apart wants money for moveable type now, it’s a fullfledged and incredibly useful piece of software. I was planning on purchasing Proteus, ecto and donating to MT (when 3.0 came out) after I received my first summer paycheck, which happened yesterday. I just have to make some room the credit card first.

The pricing scheme for the personal license isn’t right though. Kottke sums up my feelings about right. He’s a little bit more hardcore than I am, but I can safely say that it boils down to tech-junkies liking to fuck around with things. I’d have to go for their high end pricing model to accommodate what I have on my site right now. I’ve created blogs to keep track of things for a short period of time. And what about one post that you want to have a weird/fake username?

The user and log limits are poor models for representing the usages of lone-webmaster. The chief concern should be whether or not money is being made through the use of the product. Offer a free version and a paid personal version; the freebie is user/log limited while the paid version is not. The structure for corporate pricing can remain the same, as their webmasters are not apt to let the users have rogue blogs for tracking grocery lists or books read.

I’ll stick with the version of MT that I have for now and see if they change their pricing structure at all. It’s time to start paying for some of these small apps I’ve been using for the last year or two.

Who knows if it’s truthful or not, but it’s a great hook for an article:

Corrupt use of World Bank funds may exceed $100 billion and while the institution has moved to combat the problem, more must be done, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Thursday.

I lost a $20 bill this morning and have moved to combat the problem through the purchase of a better money-clip.

Visit musicplasma (via bb), a music search engine that displays the artist results in a network graph fashion. The interface is a little bit clunky, but it’s a pretty cool visualization. It’s also helpful for finding bands similar to ones that you like listening to; I know a couple that I want to check out now.

Grampa’s first album, Pop it up Son, is now available for download in its entirety. All tracks are available in high quality variable bit rate mp3 encoding as well, as 56kb mp3 streams. If you want the tracks in some other format, contact us and we’ll see what we can do for you.

The CD is also available for purchase if you’re a fan of liner notes and such. If you want one drop us a line. If you download the tracks and think that it’s hot shit, throw a few bucks our way — we’re poor and Grampa is starving artist. There’s a PayPal button and a Dreamhost button (if you want to be sure that you’re helping pay the hosting costs) on the page.