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An interesting take on a blogroll

Glancing at some blogs today (vs using my feed reader), I noticed a rather cool way to do blogrolls. I’ve never liked the traditional blogroll, such as I have in one of the columns on the right, because it doesn’t really reflect what I’m reading now. It took me months, for instance, to get rid of the Nashville Is Talking link after it went aggregator. Chez Beziat’s blogroll, instead of a list of links, is a running latest posts feed from his google feed reader.

It just makes more sense. I’ll have to figure out of it’s possible and worthwhile for me to switch to that method (esp since I don’t actually use the google feed reader or the google blogging platform).

Light blogging

Obviously, blogging will be a bit light this week, because we’re on vacation (insert obligatory note about having a house-sitter). I knew our beach house would have wifi (although it took us a good hour to get it working after we got here), but I didn’t realize how little time I’d be on the computer. Basically, I’ve turned it on to read my daily comics and to use pandora, and that’s about it.

But we’re having a blast - an absolute blast. This is what vacation’s all about.

If you commenters were wondering

By the way, last week I enabled gravatars on ye old blog. Gravatars (= globally recognized avatar) are a neat way of personalizing comments by associating your name (or email address, or some such) with a picture (a picture of anything). Personally, I think they’re really neat, but I am noticing that I’ve yet to have a commenter who uses them. So if you’re interested, go sign up for an account. It’s free and easy.

And if I can ever get Katie’s blogs upgraded to WordPress 2.5 (luddite), I’ll activate gravatars there, too.

By the way

I just noticed that last post was post number one thousand since I started hosting my own blog. That’s a thousand posts since December 2006 - averaging more than fifty posts a month. Not too bad.

By the way - if anybody has any thoughts on the new theme, let me know in comments. I’m still working on some kinks, but it seems to look better in more browsers/monitors than the last theme.

Playing with a new theme

My other theme isn’t working like it should (eg the tag cloud is a list half of the time instead of a cloud, and I can’t get gravatars to work), so I’m going to try this look out for a bit. It definitely has some things I don’t like (why, oh why, is the tag cloud blue?), but it’ll do for now. I guess.

Looking forward to

I’m very much looking forward to having time to think about blogging again. Right now, every single bit of my energy is devoted to work, family, and house. Blogging more now would go something like this: “wow, I’m really busy at work,” “wow, my child is cute,” “dang, it was chilly at baseball practice last night,” or “man, I need to finish painting the fence.”

Soon.

Nashville is laming

Nashville is talking has apparently turned into little more than an aggregator … an aggregator that someone clearly put a lot of work into, but still just an aggregator.

Lame.

I do this for me

I’ve been extremely busy lately, so posting might be sporadic until I can come up for air. I’m trying not to feel stressed about that; after all, I do this for me.

And as I remind myself of that, I guess I could say it out loud: I do this for me. I write here because it’s fun for me, and I will stop writing when it stops being fun. I try as hard as I can to write for me and not to be swayed by who might or might not be reading.

I’m not saying I pretend no one is out there. I hope you do read and enjoy the blog. I imagine I write for myself but with an audience. And I hope that’s not too much of a contradiction.

I’m on the list!

The C list!

heh.

via newscoma, who is so B list.

Not that I’m biased or anything

Not that I’m biased or anything, but I’m already hooked on KnoxvilleTalks. I don’t have the chance to read a lot of stuff while I’m at work, so KT helps me stay up on what’s going on.

I know that sounds like a cheesy ad or something, but it’s true. And I still think it’s funny that Katie started this project on her week off. I only wish she could post more!