Anyone who has ever tried to create their own blog knows that there are nearly one hundred different blogging platforms, Content Management Systems (CMS’s), or blog hosts to choose from. This group is comprised of software ranging from commercially licensed programs to open source piles of flaming fecal matter. About a year ago when I set up my first website I chose the open source program WordPress to be the man behind the curtain. About a year ago WordPress should have just given up. The open source blogging platform hosted a million different vulnerabilities to viruses, hackers, and itself. It was so muddled and confusing to install and maintain that Microsoft was probably calling it “son.”

Yesterday I decided to start up my personal blog again, and with this choice I needed to choose the platform to run it on. Browsing through the options that my hosting service offered, I spied WordPress. Now, I am not one to hold grudges, especially with technology. I recognize that software in the CMS world is indefinitely hard to write and program. This is only doubly troubling those open source dev’s who are writing for no profit. Meaning they have smaller amounts of money to pour into the project. After using the latest version of WordPress in the last 24 hours I have found it to be something as simple and easy as Apple’s OS X.

Either WordPress developers are amongst the small group of people who still listen to the consumer, or they all…
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Deep Thought is celebrating its third birthday! That’s right, it’s been three years ago since a handful of geeks got together and started Deep Thought. Instead of accepting gifts, we’re giving them to three lucky winners!

That’s right, we’re giving away three Mac software bundles to three lucky readers. This year’s giveaway bundles include software from The Omni Group, NewsGator, Flying Meat, and more.

What do you have to do to win? Well, nothing really. Simply visit the entry page, fill out the entry form, and cross your fingers!

Good luck, and thank you for three years of your support!

It’s been three years since we opened Deep Thought.

Three years. It sure doesn’t seem that long.

It all started on november 23, 2004, when Pilky wrote the following:

Welcome to Deep Thought, we hope you enjoy your stay. In case you don’t know who we are then here is a brief description. We are a Mac Blog site. There are five writers all with a different views on the world and on Macs. So we hope that we all give you different views on the world of Apple. Anyway, enjoy!!

We started as a Mac site, of course, but expanded beyond that soon after.

When we started Deep Thought, I don’t think any of us expected to set the world on fire. We were a tiny little outpost on the fringe of the tech blogosphere. Three years later, we’re a somewhat larger outpost, but still a spec of dust compared with some sites out there.

Running a small site like ours hasn’t been easy. It’s hard motivating others to write, especially when you can’t pay them. It’s hard establishing any sort of regular readership.  There have been some days where I wonder why I continue to write for Deep Thought.

In the time that Deep Thought has been around, many smaller sites have come and gone. The once-fairly popular Apple-X? There hasn’t been a new post in two months.

The Mac Mind was once a bustling site geared towards teenage Mac users. It went offline sometime in mid 2005 with…
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Some years back, President George W. Bush was quoted as saying, “Are the highways of the internet becoming more few?” Despite his seemingly nonsensical quote, George W. may have been onto something, sort of. According to a new report, commuters on the Information Superhighway could be facing serious traffic jams by 2010.

The reason? Too much data traffic, not enough capacity, and not enough added capacity to keep pace with growth. Hmm, sounds like the freeways here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

One example given is YouTube, which was generating 27 petabytes worth of traffic per month as of mid 2007. To put that in perspective, 1 petabyte is 1,024 terabytes, or over 1 million gigabytes. Most desktop computers sold today have hard drives in the range of 250-500 Gigabytes, and only higher-end desktops are pushing into the terabyte range. So yeah, that’s a lot of traffic generated by a single site. Just to think, three years ago nobody even heard of YouTube.

What does this mean for you? If these predictions come to pass, without a major increase in capacity, you can expect to spend more time waiting for your Myspace profile to load. That means, of course, there is a greater chance of your boss catching you on Myspace. Now get back to work!

So enjoy your nice speedy connection while you can before it feels as sluggish as dialup, and go download some absurdly huge file!

If you want to read the whole report, you can (caution:…
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