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I’ve found a nice, local way to handle the RSS feeds in various sidebars.
I downloaded Feed2JS,
a Free Software PHP script that does the job, and now I run it locally.
<a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink()) ?>">Digg this</a>
Typo,
a blog publishing app similar to WordPress
(which I’m currently using for all my blogs)
is undergoing a website facelift, and is
being seen more often.
I am playing around with Google AdSense, so you will see ads at the bottom of the sidebar to the right.
Let me know if they are annoying.
I would be very surprised if they generated any real money at all.
I’ve been meaning to upgrade to the completely released version of WordPress 1.5 for quite a while.
It’s done now, and as you can see, I’ve copied over the theme from my home page with minor tweaks.
I’d like to go back to the white-on-black look at some point, and use this logo:
So I took the “classic” WordPress style and started tweaking it a bit.
I renamed it “techtok” so we still have the orginal “classic” around.
I don’t like how it is now — too much like ReidNews.
But at least “classic” was what’s called a “liquid” layout, where the width of the main text is not fixed to 400 pixels or something.
That really bothers me, as you may know.
Well, as you can see, the site has moved to WordPress.
And, in keeping with being a leading-edge — nay, BLEEDING edge — site,
we are running last night’s CVS version of WordPress (a.k.a. almost-but-not-quite-yet WordPress 1.5).
MaxMind is an interesting site that has a service whereby you can map IP addresses to geographic locations. They say their API is open source, but I'm not sure about their database.
I'm guessing it's not..
I have a link on my favorites toolbar now that takes whatever site I'm looking at and creates a new Tech Tok posting with the info in it (page name, URL). Here's what the MT doc says about them:
Setting up a bookmarklet to post to Movable Type allows you to perform one-click posting and publishing without ever entering through the main Movable Type interface.
Movable Type's bookmarklet structure allows you to customize the layout and fields on your bookmarklet page. For example, you may wish to add the ability to add excerpts through the bookmarklet window. By default, a bookmarklet window will always have: a pulldown menu for the weblog to post to; a pulldown menu to select the Post Status (Draft or Publish) of the new entry; a text entry box for the Title of the entry; and a text entry box for the entry body.
I'll be using it to post here more frequently I think.