No more del.icio.us tags

I'm getting rid of all my entries on del.icio.us for this blog, which means all my original links to those tags will be dead. I'm not going to edit all my posts to take out the links because I'm lazy.

The New Deal with Tags

So since the NEW amazing (OMG) blogger beta supports tags, I'm gonna be using that feature now instead of the old del.icio.us greasemonkey system I was using before. On all my old posts, I went and edited them to put the blogger tags in, but I left the old delicious tags (except on the first one I edited before I decided to keep the old tags too).

I'm still here

Alrighty, so I'm giving the NEW blogger a try. Seems pretty dece. Some nice new features like tags, and more customizable templates. Also, I've made it one of my goals to update more frequently, so soon's I think of something interesting for all two of my readers, I'll post something new.

Tags!

I got tags working again for my blog. I found a different greasemonkey user script with similar functionality here. It actually has some features the previous one I was using didn't. For instance, with this one, there's no need to go in and edit the script to link to your del.icio.us account, there will be a popup prompt the first time you make a new post it to add your account. Plus it works, which is always good.

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• Meta
• Tagging
• Categories
• Del.icio.us

Not sTux with Windows Anymore

I finally installed linux on my computer. After a few setbacks, I managed to figure it out. Odd that I should have had any setbacks since Ubuntu, the linux distro I decided to go with is often said to be quite user friendly. It even bills itself as linux for human beings. Anyway, I persisted, and managed to install it successfully on my computer. I haven't completely gotten rid of windows yet, though. I can now boot into either WinXP or Ubuntu. But now I am no longer stuck with only using windows. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I should be updating more frequently. I waited this long because I did not want to have to make a post without being able to proclaim that I had installed windows, as I had said that I was going to. So now that I have installed it, I can make all the posts I care to.

Filed in: Meta Tech Linux

Rejoice

After a brief hiatus, I am back. I attend school at the University of Minnesota and live on campus, and they decided that in order to use the internet, I had to get some updates. When I attempted to install them, I could not. I got an error message that said "access denied." Nothing else. So I spent a good couple days trying to get that to work. Then I figured something must be pretty messed up on my computer, so I had to reformat my hard drive. Then I spent a couple days getting my computer somewhere close to they way it was before. So now I am back.

It turns out that I had a bug on my computer. It is known as "Microsoft Windows XP." It turns out that there are many bug fixes for this problem. So anyway, in order to get the updates in question, service pack 2, to install, I had to reformat my hard drive. I considered just installing linux instead of Windows, or partitioning my hard drive to dual boo, but decided instead to just buy another hard drive and load linux on that. So I have managed to get windows to work for now, but I have my new hard drive, and will soon have linux on it, and will then no longer have to deal with this most ingenious of computer viruses, which infects the vast majority of home computers, known as windows, when I don't want to.

Filed in: Meta Tech Microsoft Linux

Categories

Since this blog is still fairly new, I am still frequently making little changes until it is to my liking. One of these changes, which I made today was to my categories. Previously, I had decided to only have fairly broad categories, like "meta," "cinema," "news," and "humor" for my posts, but today I changed my mind. I decided that I would also include also fairly specific category tags when appropriate. I will tend to list the broader categories first, and then more specific ones. I have gone back and added some tags to a few of my posts as per this change. In order to not go too crazy with categories, though, I have decided to impose a strict four tag limit for each post.

If you're wondering exactly how I've gone about creating these tags for my posts, I use the method described here. Basically, you must first have firefox and the greasemonkey extension for it (I can't imagine why you wouldn't, unless you use safari for mac). Then you download this greasemonkey script, and edit it to point to your del.icio.us account. When you post, there is a new field for generating tags automatically that point to categories in your del.icio.us account. Then, once you post your entry to blogger, you make a post for it on your del.icio.us page (I have made a del.icio.us account devoted to this blog, so as not to mix things with my other del.icio.us account, which could get confusing for someone wanting to browse all my posts in category x). In addition to linking to the appropriate category in blogger, that script also creates tags which are viewable by technorati bots, so you kill two birds with one stone. Slightly more detailed instructions and explanations are at that first link I provided in this paragraph.

Filed in: Meta Tagging Technorati Del.icio.us

(Clicking on these links takes you to that category under my del.icio.us account. Also, if you search for them at technorati, you should be able to find this post, though possibly burried under many many posts from other, better blogs than this one).

First Post: Farewell (Good Riddance), Xanga.

I've just switched from xanga to blogger (well actually I registered this account several months ago to see what blogger is like from the inside). You almost certainly were directed here from my xanga. I switched mainly because xanga just sucks, and blogger is just better, basically.

1) The stupid freakin adds are annoying.
2) Xanga is really inflexible unless you "support them by going premium". In which case,you've probably gone so batshit insane with premium features that your site is utterly illegible.
3) Blogger is more accessible to people who don't have accounts and doesn't try to blackmail you into getting one and make you feel trapped. You don't have to have an account to post comments, unless the author of that blog chooses. Its xml is more usable and publicized, although xanga does have xml feeds, in the form of http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=[user]. They don't want you to know this, though, cause then there's a convenient way for you to read all your xangas without joining.

So, despite the fact that I will no longer be posting on xanga, you can still easily and conveniently read my blog by downloading RSSOwl, or any other RSS aggregator and adding my feed, http://gauchodaspampas.blogspot.com/atom.xml. Additionally, as I mentioned, you can add all your xangas, too.

Filed in: Meta Xanga