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[Nairobi, Kenya]
WELL, I’M about to take the WordPress plunge folks. I’ll have to take Expression Engine for a spin later on because I still believe it’s waaay more powerful since it’s based on the amazing (and free) CodeIgniter PHP framework. By the way, WordPress (WP) is a content management system (CMS) that allows you to easily create powerful blogs and websites – all from your web browser. It’s been downloaded millions of times over, and has a passionate (almost fanatical) following.
Freebies everywhere
Most amazingly, WP has tons of FREE themes that you can use to make your site look professional as hell. I’m not sh!tting you folks! Some of the web’s best designers create free themes for WP because they want to help it gain world domination. In addition, they’re tons of free plugins that you can add to your WP install that’ll make it jump through hoops, fly to the moon, cook your dinner and make your website or blog do some amazing tricks. Good lords, I sound like a WordPress whore already. Gees, I’m sooo pathetic!
See you on the Net
In short, say goodbye to expensive web developers folks!! The web and open source software are a lethal one two punch when it comes to this sort of thing. Ditto for Linux, the powerful BSD Unix variants (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD), Python, KDE, Zope, Plone, Drupal, Eclipse, TrixBox, Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL, MySQL, FirebirdSQL, TinyERP, Care2X, OrangeHRM, SQL-Ledger ERP, ERP5, and a ton of other free software of exceptionally high quality. This is why I love the Internet, and why I’m such an Internet whore. Knowledge is power folks, and TV – aka the idiot box – just doesn’t do it for me. Sorry Hollywood.
Suffice to say, my days over here at Blogger are numbered. Then again, who knows? Google has billions of dollars in the bank and I’m sure they’ll improve things – eventually. However, I’m tired of seeing so many beautiful WordPress sites created by peeps who are way less techie than me. Heck, most of them can’t even write a program that prints “HELLO” on the screen. Enough is enough! I want in! 
Installing on Mac OS X
Most of you already know that I’ve ditched Windows in the same manner that every hardliner Republican cronie has ditched president George “lame duck” Bush. Anyhow, if you want to install WP on OS X, then peek this link: Installing WordPress on Mac OS X Tiger. Personally, I prefer to use XAMPP for Mac OS X by Apache Friends as my LAMP stack on OS X instead of using the built in Apache server or configuring anything. Screw that! Besides, XAMPP ships with the latest PHP 5.x build since PHP 4.x is sooo passe.
On the other hand, you’re free to use this Google search string to get even better help results: Installing WordPress on OS X.
Happy virus-free Mac computing!
Hey Max, how’z your getting on with WordPress? Saw around ‘bestwpthemes’ earlier. And how’z broadband in Nairo currently?
Good luck.
Good luck.
Well, dude, WordPress rocks like no other CMS in the solar system. I’m glad I abandoned Blogger as quickly as Captain Picard would say “All hands abandon ship!!” on Star Trek: Next Generations.
As of today, broadband in Nairobi has improved immensely. The fibre optic cables have landed and ISPs have now connected to them. I downloaded Linux Mint 8 on Sunday evening in about 1 hour 30 minutes. That’s close to a 700 MB iso image file. That was on Access Kenya. Africa Online’s iBurst is also improved and fast as hell now that they’re on the fibre. We consistently get 45 Kbps to 85 Kbps (that’s a capital K) all the way out here by ISK near Gachie/Kitisuru. The word on the street from a Telkom Orange vendor is that their EV-DO 3G offering is a better product than Safaricom’s because they don’t have nearly as many customers as the “better option” (Safaricom) so lots of data availability is flowing in places that have Telkom 3G…and that’s going at around KSh 1 per megabyte.
Times have surely changed in Kenya! Hallelujah!!