Five years in review
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008I mark my fifth blogging anniversary on May 22. Between now and then, I will be going quarter by quarter a pointing out the best resources and (if I may be immodest) the best writing.
Archive for the 'Blog administration' Category
Boy in the Bands upgrading; do you have requests?
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008As the title says, I’m upgrading the style and usability of this blog. All the improvements will be on another semi-secret blog and will be rolled out in stages.
I’m of the school that the blog should do what it needs to do with as little glitz as possible, yet anticipating features (like microformats) that make […]
WordPress bloggers: categories or tags
Monday, April 14th, 2008A little word to my fellow bloggers: if you have a new version of WordPress, you’ll see how you have a choice between categories and tags. What’s the difference?
In short, you plan categories; tags are ad hoc. I would think you would have more tags than categories.
Unitarian Universalist Association would be (here) a category; when […]
Naked Day!
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008What happened to the design?
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the
Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.
http://naked.dustindiaz.com/
Now WordPress 2.5, playing with widgets
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008I’ve upgraded the software behind this blog to WordPress 2.5 and (like everyone else I’ve read who has an opinion) I love it.
Now I just need to figure out how to automate the sections in the sidebar, making them into widgets. Those are modular tools that I can add or remove from a control […]
Oh dear, I’m now Twittering
Thursday, March 20th, 2008If you Twitter, look me up. (For those who don’t, think of it as ultra-short-format blogging.)
Yes, microformats
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008I’m experimenting with microformats: structured information presented in a human-readable way that makes automated cataloging easier.
Microformat support will be a part of the forthcoming Firefox 3.0, so I want to practice before I advocate. There’s a WordPress plugin, thus the last (and surely future) less-than-conventional blogposts.
My blog TODO list
Saturday, March 15th, 2008I started this blog in May 2003 and am closing in on 2,300 posts. Here and there, I’ve started series of posts, usually developing or pointing to resources. Some projects, too. This list is as much a to-do for me as a menu of coming attractions. Hold me to that.
Church planting resources (like this) Making good […]
Tough medicine for buckshot emailers
Monday, December 17th, 2007There’s “traditional” spam — you know: the kind selling body-enhancing pills or virtual companionship — and there’s “homemade” spam. This is the mail that comes to you because you have some vague connection to a product or service the mailer has. Or one of those unsolicited buckshot blasts you get from publicity people. A bit […]
Snow, UniversalistChurch.net down
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Today is the first day we’ve had sticking snow in the District of Columbia — yesterday we had rumors of early flurries — so the city is a bit quieter.
But none the less busy here . . . for some reason UniversalistChurch.net is down. Will have to look into that.
