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From time to time, you may notice that this isn’t work­ing, or some­thing is messed up, or you see an error mes­sage. One of the reas­ons I decided to setup this rather than using some­thing like blog­ger, .com, etc., was to muck with the bits and pieces from time to time. I find tweak­ing code, look­ing at new and edit­ing themes to be a nice break from draft­ing 50 page mas­ter pro­cure­ment agree­ments. In fact, I would have liked to do everything from the ground up (i.e. set up the box, linux, apache, , php, etc.) but these days host­ing ser­vice pro­viders make the pro­pos­i­tion of set­ting that up much less attract­ive. I figured tak­ing care of some (but not all) of the bits and pieces would sat­isfy my tweak­ing desires. And let me keep some­what acquain­ted with such things. Of course, not being an élite hacker inev­it­ably leads to things that break from time to time.

Any­way, the great (and for the most part free) and other stuff used to .ca:

  • Word­Press — amaz­ingly great and over­all very, very cool blog­ging software
  • Theme — Vigil­ance by The Theme Foundry
  • MySQL - the stun­ning data­base engine that will one day take over the entire world, but which in the mean­time serves as the back-end data­base stor­ing all the bits and pieces for WordPress
  • PHP — the remark­ably ver­sat­ile script­ing lan­guage that Word­Press uses
  • Plu­gins — a whole bunch of little indi­vidual bits of code that plu­gin to Word­Press to extend func­tion­al­ity in a mil­lion dif­fer­ent ways. There is a long, long, long list of dif­fer­ent plu­gins used on techblawg so for the time being I won’t be list­ing them all out here

Without the work and ded­ic­a­tion of all the folks who cre­ated the lis­ted above and made them freely avail­able, many blogs (indeed, many sites) would simply not be in exist­ence as it would have oth­er­wise not been prac­tical to cre­ate them. I guess this is the exact oppos­ite of the tragedy of the commons.

Other things that power this blog are myself, David Ma, and huge quant­it­ies of . Hope you enjoy it.