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Wednesday, December 27, 2006  

New Blogger


I finally got around to transferring this blog over to the new non-beta Blogger format, and although it took more than two full days of computer time to complete the operation (hence my Xmas eve story being posted on the 27th) it seems to have finished now. I'm not sure it was worth it; the only real change is the addition of labels, AKA keywords, but since I've always wanted those as a way to easily automate archiving by subject, I'm happy to see them. Of course labels are only useful if I put them on a post, and while I'll be doing that from now on (when appropriate; I don't want to end up with 85% of my posts getting tagged with "personal" or "misc" or something equally useless) it doesn't help the old posts a bit.

In a perfect world I'd have time/inclination to go back and label and 600 or so posts I've made since adding Blogger software last year, and then enter the countless thousands of posts before them, cutting those old (huge) daily rambles into more discrete chunks, and back-dating them appropriately. I could at least paste in the entire body of the 300ish articles into individual back-dated posts, and give them labels I'd use in new posts on the same subject!

Unfortunately, as you've no doubt noticed, this is far from a perfect world, so don't hold your breath for that. Novel writing and agent contacting are now taking a far higher priority than this blog, and even if I had that time I'd probably be wiser to put it into catching up the content stuff on the HGL site, which is in dire need of some major updates before the beta hits and the flood of new info permanently buries me.

Anyway, labels should be working now... I just can't think what to label this post. "Housekeeping," or something like that, although it would eventually end up confusing people looking for that time I talked and using a new carpet shampooer.

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In a perfect world I'd have time/inclination to go back and label and 600 or so posts I've made since adding Blogger software last year, and then enter the countless thousands of posts before them, cutting those old (huge) daily rambles into more discrete chunks, and back-dating them appropriately.

Plus it would overflow our RSS feeds to kingdom come.


 

Do I even have an RSS feed? I didn't think it was enabled on this site.

Perhaps needless to say, I never use RSS and have no real interest in them. I spend way too much time surfing already; I certainly don't need regular text message updates when a blog I read posts something new I'll surf by and read that night anyway.

Even if I did the "perfect world" concept listed in the post, it would be a very gradual process. 30 posts in an hour a day, or something like that. I'd still need to spend a few weeks on top of that going over the last year or so of old HTML updates from 2004-2005; the ones that I never got back to pouring over and cutting and pasting into article pages, but that's just digging this particular hole even deeper.


 

Well, I'm glad your RSS feed is still up because I'm too lazy to go around to all the blogs every day. Going to a single site Bloglines is much easier =)


 

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