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Blog Transition Notes

john — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:09:16 +0000

Motivated by Rich, I am finally moving A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way off my own server and onto a hosted service. Back when I started this thing, it was fun to have it on my own box and twiddle directly with the bits. But I am past that, and doing my own MT and OS upgrades has become tiresome.

I am trying out SiteGround and wordpress as my new alternatives. I’ve duped all my content to a new shadow site, and am tweaking that. Seems to work OK, soon I will flip the domain to point to the new site.

Grabbag of software links

john — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:23:38 +0000

Switch Between Your Gmail Accounts — hmm this has been an impediment to spawning more accounts
Paypal toolbar gens one-off credit card numbers — always liked the one-off credit card idea; at one point some ecommerce sites didn’t deal well with
Generate blogrolls from google reader — need to reinstate my blogroll someday
See if your windows box has stealth connections to the net — i’m clean
Use Colr.org to plan out a color scheme — love color scheme tools
AnyTV player – tried this one, actually seems to kind of work
Visual exploration of medical terms — didn’t learn anything new but maybe useful
Photomatix for HDR photography

Switching from newsgator to google reader

john — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:00:59 +0000

I’m switching from newsgator to Google Reader (4) for rss reading. I’ve been a longtime user of newsgator and loved it, especially the outlook integration. But I find myself spending less and less time in Outlook and more and more using the web version, and the newsgator web version is just too slow, and tends to block in firefox frequently. The google reader isn’t perfect but is a lot zippier.

A mixed set of lists

john — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:35:55 +0000

The Big Picture | Cognitive Biases: A Short List — great list of the ways we screw up decisions
marca’s view on the best scifi of the decade
Larry’s recommended security blogs
EDSBS’s top 5 legends of football parenting, or, how to give your child a lifetime of therapy.
super slim wallet designs
10 reasons I need to upgrade to MT4

MT Tags, Keywords, Categories

john — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:02:16 +0000

Prior to MT3.3, I was using a plugin to automagically convert keywords into categories, and basically using keywords as tags. now I am trying to switch to the mt3.3 official tags feature, but i’d still like the feature that autoconverts tags into categories. i just want one set of descriptive words which gives me the features of tags and categories. is there a plugin that keeps tags and categories in sync?

MT3.3 — sigh, need to update

john — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:28:52 +0000

Learning Movable Type: Plugin Compatibility and MT3.3 — i hate updating software, my patience was worn out years ago. but will have to do this one, start here for plugin gotchas.

Jobster typepad widget

john — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:38:01 +0000

The Jobster team has one of these new typepad widgets. cool. seems like several of our other portfolio companies should have one too — judy’s book (they already have a way to integrate content in a blog), pure networks, perfectmatch, etc.

Ignition blogging roundup 12/9

john — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:36:15 +0000

Ok well really this is the Jobster blogging roundup.

Jason on Where do you want to be in 5 years?. Great interview question — and moreover a great question to ask yourself every week and see if you are on the path or not.
Phil’s data on what people are looking for when mobile. I am proud to have driven “buckeyes” so high in the rankings.
Phil has also added more sports capability to berry411

Things to do to the blog

john — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:52:29 +0000

Via Gadgetopia, 10 Killer Post Ideas. My posts are more of the model “Stuff John Wants to Remember” but these are good guidelines
Micropersuasion with ten favorite blogging hacks.

Flock

john — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:15:38 +0000

First post from Flock.

Kind of cool that it really integrates posting and tagging, but the posting tool is too weak to use. I can’t set categories or keywords on a post for instance.