February 2008

The following posts were written in February 2008.

Friday, February 22, 2008, 9:56pm

Mobile Blogging

I’m trying to get into it. I really am. I think if my life was more exciting - if I traveled a lot, constantly ran into celebrities or politicians, etc. - then mobile blogging would make more sense.

So, for now, I’ll just have to mess around with it enough so that when I become famous I’ll already be a mobile blogging pro.

(Posted from my iPhone)

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 7:14pm

Making it Easier to Post

When I created this WordPress theme, I wanted to take advantage of many cool features buried in the template system such as custom fields, extensive tagging, etc. What I’ve found is that these are the very reasons why it is tedious to post to this blog.

Because desktop software like ecto or MarsEdit cannot send WordPress custom field information, I was married to the Admin editor to actually publish each post. This added at least two additional steps to the publishing process, which I feel hindered me from posting more frequently. Therefore, I needed a new solution to make posting as easy as possible.

This post is the first test of the new theme enhancements - essentially I can now use the excerpt and slug fields of MarsEdit to publish articles with the associated icons on the left without having to go into the WordPress admin and manually upload and assign images to each post via a custom field.

Once I tweak some code and make it presentable, I’ll happily document my customizations in a future article.

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Friday, February 8, 2008, 9:33pm

Trying Out MarsEdit

Recently - well when NewsGator made all their consumer products free - I started using NetNewsWire on the Mac (and FeedDemon on Windows) to manage my RSS feeds. Since then, I’ve been a very happy man.

So I figured I’d give MarsEdit a shot after ecto didn’t sit too well with me. I like MarsEdit’s clean interface, and I love its support for Markdown, so here I am! I may update this post to fix a few errors, but other than that, here goes nothing…

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Saturday, February 2, 2008, 8:51pm

How to Avoid Your Blog by House Shopping

Over the past week I’ve found that house hunting is a sure fire way to slow down your blog posting schedule. After going a full month without missing a day, I really dropped the ball this week as I took some time out to visit houses and the like.

A few people at work were joking that after I buy a house I’ll have very little time to update a blog, but apparently I can’t even update a blog while I’m looking for a house either.

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