sidebar blog reads updated + haloscan comments tip
Hey, I forgot to mention that I updated the sidebar (on my homepage) with some new links in my list of regular blog reads (now Ali, Mai, Lulu and Karrie are on there!) and a nifty little "recent comments" list. If you're a Haloscan user (Haloscan is what powers my comments), you can get this too. Visit LastHalo to find out how. It's not quite as sophisticated as typepad/movable type, but it's kinda neat to have nonetheless.Also, since Haloscan has a tendency to drop some of the email notifications occasionally, I've recently gotten smart & bookmarked the RSS feed of my comments. You can find yours on the Haloscan site, under Manage Comments. Look for the RSS icon at the very bottom of the page and click on it. If you use safari or any other RSS reader, it's really handy to bookmark that & see your new comments that way. In Settings you can go into Beta tab & activate "Publishing the title of the blog post", too. It only publishes it on the RSS feed, which is dumb, but hopefully soon I can get a title/link to the original post right in the comments pop up window. It's a big fat pain that's not there now, but these little tweaks help.
Some days I *REALLY* want to just move my entire blog to Word Press*! For categories mostly... it drives me nuts that I don't have categories now. Now to narrow down all the categories I think I'd need: mac, music, web, TDI, travels.... maybe friends, photos, oh & I can't forget: kazoo! :)
post updated for clarification
*Word Press would be a natural choice for me because my host has a automatic install for it, and from what I've seen it has some great features & is easy to use. The one time I saw TypePad, trying to help a friend set it up, it seemed really complicated.
If anything, I might start doing it with tags via del.icio.us... but we'll see. I should get in on this whole tag revolution! :p
Sorry for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about. For those who do (fellow geeks), please pipe in if you have any thoughts/feedback on the above.
