Monday, May 31, 2004
If it's a Bank Holiday it must be...
Raining. We took the boys down to Ventnor Botanic Gardens anyway. Some other looney parents were there at the playground with their kids. They had a good time on the swings etc. A good place to go if you like plants, or just need a decent small playground.
Saturday, May 29, 2004
Saturday Afternoon Blues
The boys are at a double birthday party, so I'm here on my own. Hopefully they'll be home soon. Then all chaos will be let loose!! I wouldn't have it any other way.
I'm fiddling with some of the features of w.bloggar. Hopefully there's some media info attached to this post.
I'm fiddling with some of the features of w.bloggar. Hopefully there's some media info attached to this post.
[Listening to: Silent Running - Mike & The Mechanics - Hits (Mike and the Mechanics) (06:15)]
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Teething Pains...
Had to turn off archiving in order to get publishing to work. Apparently this is a 'known problem' with new Blogger. Hope they get it fixed soon.
Renewed DNS for squibbs.net today. Hopefully that keeps us up and running for a few more years.
Renewed DNS for squibbs.net today. Hopefully that keeps us up and running for a few more years.
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Blogging and RSS and Aggregators, Oh My!
It's a new world.
I've always been a fan of text-based news services. Here in the UK we've had what's know as teletext for quite a while on all of the major TV channels. The advent of digital TV has boosted that to a new 'interactive' level, but the text is what has always been most interesting. Now I find that RSS feeds are out there, and I can combine headlines and articles from any number of news organisations with the highly specialised content a general news service would never carry. RSS, more than any other technology really does seem to allow you to design your own electronic newspaper. Aggregators seem to have a little way to go before they are ready for non-technical users. For more on that see Jon Udell's site and Bloggercon.
There seem to be few real how-to documents for people looking at setting up a blog for the first time. The terminology is a great hurdle.
I've always been a fan of text-based news services. Here in the UK we've had what's know as teletext for quite a while on all of the major TV channels. The advent of digital TV has boosted that to a new 'interactive' level, but the text is what has always been most interesting. Now I find that RSS feeds are out there, and I can combine headlines and articles from any number of news organisations with the highly specialised content a general news service would never carry. RSS, more than any other technology really does seem to allow you to design your own electronic newspaper. Aggregators seem to have a little way to go before they are ready for non-technical users. For more on that see Jon Udell's site and Bloggercon.
There seem to be few real how-to documents for people looking at setting up a blog for the first time. The terminology is a great hurdle.
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Brave New World...
Posting using the new style Blogger. Looks like the publishing mechanism is a bit suspect.
Later: Logged a ticket with helpdesk over this. Can I be the only one having 'file exists' problems when publishing?
Later: Logged a ticket with helpdesk over this. Can I be the only one having 'file exists' problems when publishing?
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