I have converted my blog back to a WordPress install from Hugo.
Why ?
I was talking to a PSO (Protective Services Officer) at Melbourne Central. He had recommended WordPress because he uses it to develop web sites for businesses.
He uses Woocommerce and Stripe to set up shopping carts for clients.
He said it was a very flexible solution. He cited examples where client’s sales had increased 5 or 10 fold because allowing credit card payments makes it very easy for people to buy your product.
So good bye Hugo, good bye static sites … hello WordPress.
I spent Most of Friday and the wee hours of Saturday morning getting my wordpress blog up and running on Zuver.
Since I got the Zuver wordpress hosting for less then $10 for a year it will be interesting to see the renewal price, as it seems to have gone up a lot since I purchased mine.
The full retail price was a little less the $50, but the website now talks of similar plans north of $100
Might be worth paying as the system works quite well.
Just finnished listening to the audio book of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. It’s a really good military science fiction story, not as good as Forever War or Starship Troopers but an entertaining read. The narrator of the book was excellent.
First thing I did when I finnished it was start the second book (I have now finnished the fifth)
The Ghost Brigades Old Man’s War, Book 2 Narrated By: William Dufris Publisher: Pan MacmillanDate: March 2017 Duration: 10 hours 27 minutes
Who can you trust, if you can’t trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The mastermind behind this lethal alliance is a traitor – Charles Boutin. He was a Colonial Defence Force scientist, with access to their biggest military secrets. Now the CDF’s only hope is to discover Boutin’s plan. Trouble is, Boutin’s dead. As a super-soldier created from Boutin’s own DNA, Jared Dirac may have answers. However, when Dirac fails to access the scientist’s memories, he’s transferred to the Ghost Brigades for training. These elite troops are also cloned from the dead, so he might fit in. But will Dirac’s memory return as the enemy plots the fate of humankind? And whose side is Dirac really on?
The Last Colony Old Man’s War, Book 3
By: John Scalzi Narrated by: William Dufris Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.
That is, until his and Jane’s past reaches out to bring them back into the game – as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.
Zoe’s Tale Old Man’s War, Book 4 By: John Scalzi Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert Length: 10 hrs
Zoe’s Tale is a parallel retelling of Scalzi’s third Old Man’s War novel, The Last Colony*, written as a first-person narrative from the viewpoint of Zoë Boutin Perry. It follows up on several plot points that were underrepresented in the original novel.
“How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
“I ask because it’s what I have to do. I’m Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.
“Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don’t know my tale: How I did what I did – how I did what I had to do – not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I’m going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.
“It’s a story you know. But you don’t know it all.”
I have converted my website to a static website. Previously I had used the Nikola static website tool which is written in python. It’s a great tool, but I wanted something more. I chose Hugo because
it is very fast
Since this is a technical blog, I needed to be able to embed rmarkdown documents easily. Hugo is great for this.
It has a large collection of templates. There are so many I actually spent over eight hours before I settled on casper-two
I am studying data science. I have chosen to learn R first (before Python) because of its excellent visualisation capabilities. I have just finished the first unit – Introduction to the Tidyverse Course
This week I noticed Datacamp had a half price special, only$200 AUD for a years subscription. So I have cut down on playing games (sorry Battlefield V) and used that time to learn the tidyverse on datacamp.
According to Datacamp’s website it is “the smartest way to learn Data Science Online. The skills people and businesses need to succeed are changing. No matter where you are in your career or what field you work in, you will need to understand the language of data. With DataCamp, you learn data science today and apply it tomorrow.“
Battlefield 5 is being released next Tuesday (November 20, 2018) I couldn’t wait for it, so I signed up for a month of premium access Now I am downloading Battlefield 5, but at 44gb it’s going to take over 13 hours
Another reason to download it now is, I imagine next Tuesday the servers will be really busy.