Ok, so I’m a few years late. Most of my two readers (two more than I had last week!) probably already have a preferred rss reader. Probably NetNewsWire for mac or GreatNews for winblows. However, those are local clients. What if you’re not at your main machine and want to check your feeds? You’ll need another install of said client, but the read history won’t be the same. What’s an rss user to do?
Use Google Reader. Seriously. It’s a pretty slick web 2.0 app that lets you categorize & tag your feeds to your liking. Because it’s a webapp that’s attached to your Google account (used for gmail, gcal, etc.), your read history is the same no matter where in the world you check your news. It’s got oodles of keyboard shortcuts to help you speed through your news. It’s gotten plenty of good reviews. Go ahead and try it out. I’ll even give you a kick start. Click here to subscribe to this blog in Google Reader.
Other site stuff: Melinda is now able to post stuff here. Whether she will or not is her decision (as it is my decision to keep or delete them at will 
).
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I just added three plugins…instead of upgrading to 2.1. Really, I’ll do that this weekend. I promise. [uncrosses fingers]
- Admin Advanced Drop Down Menus
- Oceia bar for Wordpress
- Share This
The first makes the admin menus super snazzy – not that any of my readers my one reader will care. Similar with the Oceia bar. The last one, though, is Share This. Check the new link at the bottom of every post, to the left of “Post in …”. It pops open a little panel that lets you add this to any number of social bookmarking sites, as well as emailing it to someone else. Schweet!
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Talked with my host (Digital Space) about the slowness. They said that a couple users were using more than normal resources, so they’re splitting the box. Might be some outages throughout today, but it’ll hopefully be better tomorrow.
As for the site upgrade, hasn’t so much happened yet – last night, I found out my wife doesn’t have the inner ear disease she thought she’d had since the mid-90s. Indecisive thing, that medicine. Needless to say, I was a bit preoccupied.
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Development Blog ??∫ WordPress 2.1 Ella
There’s a new version of Wordpress out. Maybe this will fix the slowassedness of this site I see during the day. I turned off a couple plugins and sidebar widgets that hit external sites thinking that might be the problem. If it’s better today, I’ll re-add the flickr widget (cause I can’t believe flickr is that bogged down). I’ll get to it tonight…hopefully. If this doesn’t fix it, I’m gonna hafta figure out how to hack in timing information to see if it’s the db calls that are slow (since my host runs multiple sites on one box with the dbs on the same machine…i don’t pay for the ’spensive dedicated service).
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I had this fairly good rant on MENSA and how they’re all a bunch of goobers, but when I clicked “publish”, my site timed out and I lost it. I am proud of the post, but it wasn’t meant to be. Instead, you get this pathetic excuse for a post. Haha.
In an unrelated note, anyone have experience switching hosting providers while keeping the same domain?
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I’ve got this sweet CLI1 theme that I can go in and switch to any time. Unfortunately, everyone is forced to use it. …by “everyone”, I mean everyone who reads this site. …by “everyone who reads this site”, I mean me. Since no one else reads this. If some non-me reader is out there, LEAVE A DAMNED COMMENT.
Anywho, I installed a little theme switcher plugin that would allow a per-user theme specification. Each user would pick their preferred theme and it’d get stored in a cookie on their machine. Better yet, the theme can be forced with a specific query string argument. So, the plan was to default the site to the CLI and have initial text in the CLI provide a link to the graphical version. Noooo…..that won’t work, because whenever the theme switcher is active, I can’t modify the widgets of the graphical theme. Moreover, the image behind the title at the top of the page doesn’t display, and the text is white, and it’s real damn hard to read white text on a white background. So, I’m pissed.
1: command line interface….n00b
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Might cough a bit, though. The exhaust fan motor will probably die within the next year, so we asked for a closing credit for it. Other than that, looks like we’re good to go. Melinda and I signed over our first-born last night to get the home loan, and I’ve got to drop that off on Monday. As it is, I’ve got a new Colombia jacket, a new-found use for my iPaq, and a $20 gift card coupled with a 10% off coupon for Worst Buy. Time to spend some money.
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So cold, in fact, that I created a new smiley specifically for this post. Well, I’m not cold now, but the furnace in the condo probably needs to be replaced. Got a furnace guy gonna look at it today.
We got approved for a loan! Now I’ve gotta dig through my superior filing system box o’ papers to find a couple bank statements and my most recent 401(k) statement. Gonna be a long night full of papercuts.
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