Blogger is finally adding a feature that I have been wanting for year now. I now can schedule future posts. This means I can write a post on Sunday to have it appear on Monday. This feature makes me so happy. Why would I want this feature. Right now I am working on a daily series about flickr views. Before I had to go back every day and post if I get the post done early. Now I can set it and forget it. I am very happy with this.
Note: This was my test post to make sure it works correctly.
I think it is time for me to turn my RSS feed back on. I turned it off because of a problem I was having with old entries. I am adding tags (Blogger calls them labels) to old entries and those old entries are showing up a new in my RSS feed. I turned off my RSS feed thinking I could pound out the old entries in a few weeks. With over 2400 entries, it was a larger job than I thought. I have not idea how many entries I have tagged, but it is less than half. The people who use my RSS feed will just have to put up with the Greatest Hits aspect of my blog for now. I will never everyone know when it is over, but it will be a while.
This is a quick note to the RSS feed readers of Sad Salvation. (Like those of you who read my Live Journal Feed) Blogger has added a new tagging feature. (They call it labels for some dumb reason) I have been using this feature and even tagging some of my old entries. The problem is that when I publish my old entries with tags, they have been showing up in my RSS feed. It used to not work this way. The RSS feed would only update if I updated an entry on my front page. I am not sure why blogger made these changes.
If you see old entries come up on my RSS feed, you know why it is. You might want to see it as a best of Sad Salvation as I add the tags.
There has been some changes over at blogger. I have finally switched by blogs over to the new service. For some reason I was not allowed into the beta. Now it is open to everyone. I will have to let everyone know what I think about it. The problem is that I am not even sure what the new features are.
There is a new tagging tool. For some reason they call it labels. If I had all the time in the wold I could go back to all my old posts and add tags. Maybe I can get some kid in India to re-tag all my old entries at a low price.
For a while I have been thinking about switching away from blogger. I have not done it earlier because I am lazy and I am not good at web design. I want to spent my blogging time writing, not messing around with code. That is why I am still using blogger. Lets see if the changes are for better or worse.
Here are my nonsense notes from the Silicon Valley/South Bay Blogger meetup. If you were at the blog meetup you would get more info about what these notes are about. I am going to write longer entries about some of these topics. If you leave a specific comment about one of these lines, I will write more about it.
-Sometimes Mike reminds me of the unabomber -Everyone was talking about taxes -David used Yelp.com to find his CPA -The internet is broken, here at least -What makes Blog Entries Popular -I want my blog to pay for a new camera. -Mike is wondering if it is "Mob log" or is it "Mo Blog"? -Are Amazon reviews in danger? -Google as resume/Googleism as resume -find yourself on Slutometer -I Know David Kadavy stickers -I will blog for blog redesign -in high school Mike got detention for playing with Fire -Fake Photos with famous people -David wants to learn how to camp -the Furniture problem in a nomad culture
My archive is currently broken. I do not recall making any changes that would brake it. I do not remember any changes at all. This pisses me off, but I am not sure how to fix it. Anyone have any ideas?
I was switched over to the updated blogger interface a few days ago. I have been trying it out with all supported Mac browsers, IE, Safari, and Mozilla. I have to say that Mozilla is my favorite. I did not have that much of an issue with the old interface. The Mozilla interface keeps much of what I liked. This most likely will make Mozilla my default browser for most things now.
I love clicking on the 'The 10 most recently published blogs' on the Blogger home page. Some of them have just great titles. One of the recent ones I saw was He Said, She Said. Nothing has really been published on this blog yet. I see new blogs from time to time and I wonder if they are ever going to turn into anything. I want to keep my eye on this one. I want to see if they do anything with it.
I really like the idea of doing a blog with a small number of people and discussing subjects. Does anyone out there like this idea. Do you think you could write something at least three times a week that we could kick around. Tell me if you think we could start one.
Blogger has improved its archiving system. I am no longer limited by the week I used blogger. It will not publish archives going as far back as I want. I am importing all of my old Blog 5.0 entries to Blogger now. All of Sad Salvation can be in one place. If you give me a while everything will be in one place. I can work to shut down my old web site. It is nice to have everything in the same place. I wonder if I should put any of my pre-blog journal on-line.
I signed up from Blogger Pro yesterday. Today my account kicked over. The options are okay. I am happy to have the spell checker back. The drafts feature is great for Super Karate Monkey Fist, since in theory, other people post to it.
Currently it is $35 a year to sign up for Blogger Pro. I think this is really worth it for me. I am not sure that I am going to use the pro features all that much. It is worth it because I really like the service at it is. I know I can use it for free, but it is worth $35 a year to me. I want to see blogger succeed. I think that using their Pro features will help. I will have to see how it goes.
I am spending my time this evening playing with the Blogger template I am using. I will admit that I do not know all that much about HTML. I know just enough to make a sorry looking web site. It is just enough to know what bad code looks like, but not good code.
Now I am trying to muck around with the template. There is all this code that I am not sure what it does. I am just trying to nip and tuck to make some small change. I am not worried that I will make any large screw-ups. I just hate it when I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I am typing something and it will not show up on the page.
Sad Salvation is moving to its own domain. I have purchased the Domain www.sadsalvation.com. That will be my homepage and this web log will be moving to its own section of that site. I will not move any of these pages right now. I will just link back to them from the new site.
I am going to try to use Blogger for my new web log. It gives me different options that Blog 5.0 does not give me. I think that going to Blogger is a step up. I hope you enjoy what you read as sad salvation moves to its next step.
When I thought about writing this entry I thought I would be have a lot to write about how big of a step this is. I thought I would have words about they way these change occur and how my web log will be different now. Now that I am sitting here, I do not seem to have any words for those things. I am not even sure that any of those ideas are worth writing about.
Welcome to my new/moved weblog. For months now I have been using Blog 5.0 to publish my web log. I have decided to purchase my own domain and place my web log here. I am going to move all of my old web logs entries over here. I feel that this is a good move. I have enjoyed my web log and I hope that this makes it better.
