{"id":44,"date":"2008-04-20T00:54:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T00:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/2008\/04\/miloais-be-speaking-in-fives-f.html"},"modified":"2008-04-20T00:54:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T00:54:32","slug":"miloais-be-speaking-in-fives-first-5-things-that-made-setting-up-this-blog-too-damn-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"miloais be speaking.  in fives. first, 5 things that made setting up this blog too damn hard."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><![CDATA[So after two days of realizing I don't know shit about computers and programming...I finally got this movable type blog up and running on the website. \u00a0The plan...post lists of 5. \u00a0That way you can read a post (theoretically if you aren't real dumb), quickly. \u00a0I thought about doing lists of 10, but that would take too much work on my part. \u00a0Anyway...in celebration of the stupid amount of effort that went into setting this bitch up, here's the five things that sucked about setting up a blog.\u00a0\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>1. <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">GoDaddy.com<\/span>. \u00a0I can&#8217;t really go into much detail about why they suck, because I don&#8217;t really understand much of the computer lingo that was on the message boards I was reading. \u00a0But according to those boards&#8230;which were way to numerous for it to be even worth providing a link to&#8230;godaddy sucks balls. \u00a0They aren&#8217;t compatible with movable type, have awful technical support, and have Dale Jr on the front of their webpage. \u00a0Needless to say, on Connolly&#8217;s advice I switched to dreamhost, and within an hour had this thing up and running.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>2. <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Blogging software<\/span>. \u00a0How hard is it to make decent blogging software that doesn&#8217;t require coding to get setup. \u00a0I don&#8217;t claim to be a computer genius, but I&#8217;m not as bad as a lot of computer users either, and setting up a blog should NOT be this hard.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>3. <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Addiction<\/span>. \u00a0I have a pretty big pathology exam on Monday morning and haven&#8217;t been able to study shit, because I&#8217;ve been addicted to figuring out how to get this blog up. \u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>4.<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Too many tutorials<\/span>. \u00a0I know this should be a good thing, but with so many people offering their 2 cents on how to set up movable type, I didn&#8217;t know which one to follow. \u00a0There needs to be a better system of universally rating web content&#8230;all types of web content, so this type of thing would be easier. \u00a0It would also have made it easier to find the Rick Rolling website I searched for yesterday in an embarrassingly botched attempt to Rick Roll my fantasy league. \u00a0The link is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetisseriousbusiness.com\">www.internetisseriousbusiness.com<\/a> if you are wondering.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>5. <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NBA playoffs<\/span>. \u00a0Hard to focus with spurs suns game 1 on in the background. \u00a0F manu ginobli.<\/div>\n\n]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miloais.com\/miblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}