Easily influenced by my bloggy pals, that's me. Julie's posts mentioning the new version of blogger got me to switch to the new version. (I must mention that among the Amazingly Useful things Julie provides on her blog, like her Firefox extension round up, or her sidebar with nifty things like how to make expandable blogger posts or style the Library Thing widget, Julie is also the only person I know who includes the occasional recipe-with-photo in her Flickr photo stream. Julie, you rock.)
I like the new blogger, especially because it has labels. I've been wanting to have labels on my posts for ages (but not enough to move to wordpress to get them). Labels are an easy way to browse a new blog. I've tried using technorati tags on some of my posts, but I haven't been consistent enough to make that work as a labeling tool. So I'm feeling pretty happy about this new feature, especially now that I want to start writing about a little wider range of subjects.
My only complaints so far: my sidebar widgets aren't all working properly, so I can't quite get my statcounter icon to display, and my Library Thing book covers have disappeared. And the "Previous Post" list seems to have gone from the sidebar. (And I can't find a version of Tab X that's compatible with the Firefox 1.5.0.6, an unrelated computer complaint.) So I have a few things to learn. But hey, everyone needs a new hobby when they get a new job, right?
I must find a way to work blogging and reading into my literacy and technology class for the spring. All this public writing! And public tweaking with technology, and moves to graphic organizers. It's an interesting turn, and one we in English departments are a little slow to embrace.
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I am leaving a test comment to see if they work any differently ....
Nope, comments have stayed pretty much the same.
jeez, all those links to me!
guess I had better get on the stick and write my posts about the new blogger. can't have the department chair doing all my work! :)
unrelated: my tabx 0.9.2 works with FF 1.0.5.6...what's the prob w/ yours?
I meant FF 1.5.0.6, but you knew that.
Dunno, Julie, FF 1.5.0.6 is being rather wonky with extensions. I've just gotten a new MacBook, and I'd spent some time customizing FF and then later in the day, FF auto-downloaded 1.5.0.6. But as soon as it downloaded, I got a pop=up saying that virtually all my extensions would be uninstalled or disable b/c they weren't compatible with the new FF version. By the next morning, most of the extensions were allegedly ready for installation, but they are greyed out in my Extensions box. Tabx 0.9.2 won't install, period, saying it's only working with lower versions of FF, and while I got my Azerty theme to install, most of the extensions that say they will be downloaded don't actually download when I quit and restart FF. So much frustration with me and FF right now, and I miss Sage on my laptop.
So I wonder whether I'm having problems b/c I'm trying to get things set up with a new computer. But I've not upgraded by FF at work yet b/c I don't want to lose my extensions in the midst of all the other stuff I'm learning there.
Oh...Mac. Dunno about them, sorry. I can only say that I've had zero extension version mismatches in the minor versions after 1.5.0, so the changes in the codebase must really affect the Mac side of things. Sorry I can't be helpful.
Off-topic (kinda)...when I made a new recipe for dinner tonight, I thought "I wonder if I should take a picture and post the recipe for susan."
Let me know if you're interested in an italian sausage/greens/beans/grapes (seriously) kind of thing. It was really good.
Oooh, I 've always wanted labels too, but am too cheap to move to anyone I actually have to pay money for. Is the new blogger free? Didn't Phantom do a post where she said not to do it?
I'm intrigued.
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