Wednesday May 14, 2025; 11:10 AM EDT
- You may notice that the title of this site is Daynotes, but it probably should be Day Notes. The name is an homage to the first blogroll I participated in called the Daynotes Gang. People who participated in the blogroll were bloggers and fans of Jerry Pournelle. After his columns for Byte magazine wound down Jerry used his web site to publish his technology writing and his site included a daily journal written in a manner similar to what we now call blogging.#
- Speaking for myself, I imagined myself as an amateur technology pundit. During the early 2000s I even became a published author. My first blog was called Notes From The Cave. "The Cave" was a term for the room I lived in/studied in while in college that I transferred to mean the home office in our basement. What I wrote then were literally notes I wrote while in "the cave." #
- The first iteration of Notes From The Cave was written using EditThisPage, the first blogging platform developed by Dave Winer. By 2008 that platform was decommissioned and I moved to using WordPress, and that site continues on to this day. Today that Wordpress site is mostly an archive for posts I publish to other sites, but what I write here is not cross posted to it. #
- Daynotes is a daily outline written in Drummer and published by Dave's Old School blog CMS and hosted on Dave's server. I can save the source OPML files, but I do not have access to the web server that hosts this content. For that matter, Drummer is also hosted by Dave, and all this means that if Dave were to decide, he could stop hosting and I would be no longer able write these notes as I do today, and that would be a case for moving these Daynotes back over to Wordpress. #
- Lately I have been trying out Dave's latest app, Wordland, to write posts on Wordpress, but even if Dave were to take Wordland down the posts live on in Wordpress and can be edited using Wordpress's editors. Wordland is nice, but I really like writing in an outliner like Drummer, so I am included to keep doing what I am doing here until there is a real risk of it going away. #