A little tech task I’ve been meaning to get to forever was adding my Tweets to the sidebar. I was gonna cook up something myself, but stumbled across Twitter Tools. It was a simple unzip, copy, activate, set some options type of affair. As a bonus, it also files a tweet when I publish here; something I’m always forgetting to do.
Well, its nice to cross one thing off the list. About a zillion more to go.
All the cool blogs use Feedburner to host their RSS. Now, I do too. As far as I can tell, if you’re already subscribed, nothing will change for you some smoke and mirrors on this end will route everything through Feedburner’s servers automagically. I don’t think you’ll need to do anything, but if things stop working for you, try subscribing directly to my Feedburner URL: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/JasonCrowthersBlog. If still no workey, drop me a comment and I’ll get you working again.
Finally getting around to updating Wordpress again. I was waaaay behind the times. After messing around with the new admin interface (not that many changes on the end user side that I’ve noticed.) I have to admit that I should have upgraded sooner. Oh well, such is life.
I also got around to turning on Aksimet comment spam filtering. For reason, I’ve been getting slammed lately with hundreds of annoying bot generated spams. I’m not sure why I never tried to setup up Aksimet previously. Its pretty much a no brainer. It was also happy to buzz through the 5700 queued up comments that I’ve been dreading looking at.
Onward and upward, hopefully I’ll find a little more motivation to work on some other website enhancements. Stay tuned.
Yeah, figured it was finally time to update to the latest wordpress. After enjoying all the enhancements on the wordpress blogs we use at work, I thought they might encourage me to work on my blog some more.
The update wasn’t quite as scary as I thought it would be. Its basically the same as the famous 5 minute install, except you copy over the existing install instead of a clean directory and run the updater script instead of the installer.
It did hose my sidebar, but I knew that was coming. I had hacked that code quite a bit to put in all my offsite widgets (delicious, digg, flickr, my runlog, etc.) I’m gonna recode those things into my own custom widgets, so I don’t shoot myself in the foot again.
I’d also like to delve into a look and feel update, but I don’t know if I’m gonna have the time and energy to get anywhere in the near future. Probably go evolutionary instead of revolutionary, I guess. Stay tuned.
I like Wordpress’ management interface, really I do. Well, except for one minor annoyance that’s not really Wordpress’ fault. After typing on a plain old PC keyboard for years and years, I’m addicted to the home and end keys to jump to the start or end of the current line.
Unfortunately, on Mac, the home and end keys don’t work the same. They jump you to the top and bottom of the current text section (basically the same as Control + home/end) does on the PC side.
Hold the phone, seasoned Mac users say. Durr, just use Command + Home/End to jump to the beginning or end of the line. That works fine every where except in Firefox where the browser jumps in and intercepts the key combo for browser forward/back options. Well, thank you very little.
So, I’ve giving Marsedit a shot. I’m liking it so far. Its a little faster than typing in the browser and I’m a little less worried about having to constantly undo code clean-up done automatically every time I save an in progress post.
Doh, just spotted a potential deal breaker for me. Marsedit doesn’t have a way to do lists. Maybe I’m just missing it? Man, that’s rough on a list-a-holic like me.
Stay tuned.
