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Sunday, March 30, 2008, 4:21pm

I Deleted Everything Again (But Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and Love It!)

For the second straight WordPress upgrade I managed to overwrite my entire /wp-contents/ folder and wipe out my existing themes. Evidently I need to pay more attention to the options in Forklift when I upload folder structures. There is a “merge” button and a “replace” button - I need the former, not the latter.

Anyway, at least it gave me a reason to complete the design I was working on for a future version of the site, although I didn’t expect to cram a lot of the functionality into a 12 hour window. Overall I’m pretty happy with how the design came out. Since I was going for a minimalist look, I tried for much more whitespace than in previous designs.

There are a few cool features, however, that I haven’t implemented yet, which will attempt to make this site more of a personal “lifestream” rather than a mundane blog. For example, I have API code for Flickr, Twitter, and Google to capture everything I do online in one place. I think that can add a lot to a blog, especially if its visitors don’t already have some idea of who the author is as a person and a writer.

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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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Friday, January 25, 2008, 8:48pm

Rail Against the Conventional Wisdom

This was listed as a way to spark interest in your website or blog by someone at WickedFire (a popular affiliate marketing forum). For the most part I agree with this idea, especially if you feel very passionately about a particular topic. However, I can’t stand the posts that deliberately take an opposite stance without doing the research needed to make their argument.

It’s one of those things - if you pull it off, you look great. If you don’t, you end up looking pretty bad. And a bit lazy.

I’m not quite sure what got me started on this because, believe it or not, I don’t have a particular post in mind right now. Every so often though, I see one and think. Ouch.

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