Category: Technology and Gadgets

Poll on blog media

Scott has a poll up in his sidebar about blog reader's preferences for blog media communication. Here's where it stands right now: Standard Blog / Post and Comment (86%) Forums (14%) Live Blog (0%) Podcast (0%) Vidcast (0%) Head on over and participate 😉

Problem alert: daylight savings time

Calling it a "mini-Y2K," this article alerts is to some issues associated with this year's early start date of daylight savings time. ...it's a potential problem in any software that was programmed before a 2005 law decreed that daylight-saving time would start three weeks earlier and end one week later, beginning this year. [...] Software … Continue reading Problem alert: daylight savings time →

WordPress now has New Blogger import

No need to stay with the New Blogger any more. WordPress.com now allows importing of your blog here. Come on in! The water's warm 😉

Another new Word Press feature: audio!

Kudos to the fine people here at WordPress. The free blogs are just getting better and better. They just rolled out a new audio player, which works for mp3s anywhere on the net. Here's what it looks like (Kaine speech): If you buy the space upgrade ($20 for 1 gig, $50 for 5 gig or … Continue reading Another new Word Press feature: audio! →

ISO the perfect organizer/laptop or something

There's no such thing, is there? Well, I keep looking, regardless. Ten years ago, I bought my first PDA, the Pilot 5000. I saw it in an Egghead catalog and got on the waiting list here locally. It fit my needs wonderfully and simplified my life. Gone were the multiple paper and computer calendars. Instead, … Continue reading ISO the perfect organizer/laptop or something →

Changes are coming

I've been dogged by some of the other bloggers who shall remain nameless (Jim 🙂 ) about the fact that my blog didn't have its own domain. Well, it's been two months in the making but if you take a look at the address bar in your browser, you'll see that this blog has a … Continue reading Changes are coming →

New WP feature: Snap

One thing I really like about using WordPress.com as a blogging platform is that the folks here are constantly rolling out new features. The latest one, Snap Preview Anywhere, is being beta-tested and this blog was fortunate to be one of the testers 🙂 Basically, if you hover on a link in a post, a … Continue reading New WP feature: Snap →

Videoblog: The Direction

Catch the latest show about the blogosphere and the internet in general over at The Direction. This is a weekly videoblog that gets posted on Mondays. I need to keep my eye on this one. Some interesting stuff there.

Spam and WordPress

One really nice benefit of using WordPress as a blogging platform is the integration of the spam filter provided by Aksimet. The filter is an intelligent one, in that it learns what is spam and what isn't. While the occasional spam post gets thru and the occasional legitimate post gets blocked, the overwhelming majority of … Continue reading Spam and WordPress →

Offline blogging tool:Windows Live Writer

Most of the time, I have internet access, using my bluetooth cell phone when no other options exist. I usually write my posts online. But I've been wondering about the offline blogging tools out there and one that I ran across is Windows Live Writer, which I am using to write this post. The program … Continue reading Offline blogging tool:Windows Live Writer →