setting up svn on a subdomain under cpanel

The fine folks at ServerBeach pointed me to a great tutorial on setting up subversion.  This is only relevant if:

• You are running cPanel (which does not include mod_dav_svn in it’s apache install)
• You wish to access your subversion repository via HTTP
• You also wish to access the repo via a SVN client
• Such access should be through a subdomain that was set up via cPanel

Now I have my very own svn repo, running on a subdomain. Yay svn.

on living in a connected world.

my iphone is no more than 5 feet from me, ever.  i’m logged into AIM and Yahoo 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  my phone number is widely available on the web.  (starting today) i twitter and i blog.  i have a profile on pretty much every damn social networking site that exists.  i enjoy being constantly connected to the grid.

i was a member of prodigy back in the early 90s.  co-sysop’d a couple of bulletin boards, posted to fidonet, chatted on irc, posted to usenet.  not only have i grown up connected, i’ve made a career out of being connected.

what is it like to be disconnected?  i can’t imagine not being able to listen to any song from my music collection ondemand, regardless of where i am.  or not being able to answer stupid trivia questions (who was nixon’s running mate? what animal can you get hantavirus from?  who wrote “happy birthday”?) at 2am, drunk, in a bar.  or writing checks to pay bills.  or waiting until NBC decides to show a rerun of heroes.  or going to the store to buy a cd.

memory is a funny thing.  there was a time, of course, where these things were not possible — and i’m old enough to remember them.  yet i act as if this connectivity has always been there, and will always be there.

what is it like to be disconnected, when everyone else is plugged into the grid?  is it like being blind?

the sum of human knowledge is available at our fingertips.  i can verify almost any statement anyone makes, wherever i am, in near real-time.

what is it like to intentionally disconnect yourself?  is it like being a hermit?

humans are, by nature, social creatures.  we yearn for connections with others, and we always have.

is that because, at the end, we are alone?

first post!

hi.

since i decided yesterday to actually use twitter (instead of just pretending), i’ve been thinking about how i contribute content to the web.  and, i don’t.  beyond the occasional pithy comment on someone else’s blog, i don’t actually generate any original content.

so i’d like to change that.  i’ve attempted blogs in the past (before they were called “blogs,” when you had to walk uphill seven miles through a blizzard, etc) but never had the dicipline to keep them up.

we’ll see what happens.  there will be lots of things here — both work-related posts and personal stuff.  at least, personal stuff that i’m willing to share with the 3.4 people who will read this.

welcome.