A few days ago someone pointed out to me that the RSS feed of my blog was empty, throwing an error: XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: https://www.windracer.net/blog/atom.xml Line Number 1, Column 1: I checked the atom.xml file on my server (I host this blog myself, not on Google’s servers) and found that it …
… has long passed, I know. These days a person’s presence on the ‘net is usually defined by a social networking profile (like Facebook, MySpace, or LinkedIn), maybe a personal blog (like this one), or a Twitter feed. Gone are the days when people crafted their own home pages, hosted by their ISPs (or places …
Check out today’s User Friendly strip. Too true … 😀
I’ve been unable to post to the blog for the past few days as Blogger has been having issues with sFTP. Whenever I tried to publish a post, I was getting this error: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out Apparently I wasn’t alone as I found quite a few posts on the Blogger support forums about the …
Apparently if you host your Blogger blog on your own server (like I do) instead of Google’s blogspot.com you miss out on some cooler features of the service (like advanced Layouts). Another missing feature is the widget that inserts a list of tags/labels used in posts into the sidebar. Thankfully, I found a blog post …
I found a quick and easy way to add smileys to a blog. They should work in comments too. 😉 😀 😛 😕 🙂
I received an e-mail from Bob of Stormbringer’s Thunder blog who wanted to share the joy of coincidence: we both use Blogger and both use the same Blogger template. Okay, no coincidence there as there are probably hundreds (or thousands?) of other bloggers using those same tools. The funny part is that we both posted …
I noticed yesterday, after posting my Vista rant, that my bulleted lists didn’t have bullets next to them. Doing some digging in the Thisaway (Blue) template I’m using, I found the following reference: .post li { padding: 0 0 4px 17px; background: url(http://www.blogblog.com/thisaway_blue/ icon_list_item.gif) no-repeat 0 3px; } Putting that URL into my browser, I …
Ok, I’m turning on blog comments … what the heck, right? We’ll see how it goes. If as many people are reading this blog as I think there are, it shouldn’t be a problem. 🙂 To start, though, I’m leaving “comment moderation” turned on until I get a feel for it (in keeping with the …
Welcome to my personal blog! In *nix-land, ‘chmod 644‘ means “world readable.” I have no delusions of grandeur that the “world” is reading this, but it’s an accurate description of a blog’s potential audience thanks to the web. For now though, first post! Let’s go!