Jumping on the Blogger bandwagon
Put two cam people together and they will end up talking about their blogs, and cams and other geek things. So naturally Glenn asks me what I use to update my blog.
Me: "Um... Dreamweaver. Or sometimes I just open it in notepad and type up a post in that."
Glenn: *look of horror on his face*
hehe ok not quite, but I definately felt like I was stuck in 1999 or something. Like HELLO, who manually updates their blog anymore? And manually archives everything? Not the cool kids, that's for sure.
Being the sheep that I am, always wanting to fit in and be part of the cool clique, I finally let someone convince me to use something to make my blogging easier. So here I am using blogger for the first time. Lame huh!
And now for the time consuming part- adding all my old blogs to this new fandangle blogging tool. I am almost tempted to say 'fuck it' and just start all over again, but alas I am hopeless at throwing stuff away, and that includes old posts. Unforutnatley all old comments are lost. :( I guess that kind of sucks.
Oooh and what's with blogger not having my time zone?!?!?! Because New South Wales and Victoria have daylight savings, they are 1 hour ahead of us Queenslanders. I've chosen the Australian Eastern Standard time zone as mine but it is set to the daylight savings time. *grumbles* I have to remember to always change the time back an hour.
Me: "Um... Dreamweaver. Or sometimes I just open it in notepad and type up a post in that."
Glenn: *look of horror on his face*
hehe ok not quite, but I definately felt like I was stuck in 1999 or something. Like HELLO, who manually updates their blog anymore? And manually archives everything? Not the cool kids, that's for sure.
Being the sheep that I am, always wanting to fit in and be part of the cool clique, I finally let someone convince me to use something to make my blogging easier. So here I am using blogger for the first time. Lame huh!
And now for the time consuming part- adding all my old blogs to this new fandangle blogging tool. I am almost tempted to say 'fuck it' and just start all over again, but alas I am hopeless at throwing stuff away, and that includes old posts. Unforutnatley all old comments are lost. :( I guess that kind of sucks.
Oooh and what's with blogger not having my time zone?!?!?! Because New South Wales and Victoria have daylight savings, they are 1 hour ahead of us Queenslanders. I've chosen the Australian Eastern Standard time zone as mine but it is set to the daylight savings time. *grumbles* I have to remember to always change the time back an hour.
6 Comments:
At January 03, 2005 5:19 PM, reanon said…
testing the comments. ew this is crap. damn frames.... :(
At January 03, 2005 9:54 PM, aaron said…
Using Dreamweaver for blogging.... that's almost as sad as writing your own blogging software like I did. ;P
btw, how painful is the signup process?! I just wanna post comments, not be forced to set up my own blog!
I hope 2005 starts looking up for you soon!
At January 03, 2005 10:57 PM, aussiebofh said…
Hey, don't go badmouthin' Notepad or Dreamweaver, they do the job (I'm one of those 'nix people who use a plain old text editor for pretty much everything).
My professional life would be much simpler and less stressful without crap like MS Frontpage - I had a guy tell me once he didn't do his site in HTML, he did it in FP. I nearly ate my phone's handset after that one.
Be nice to the plain HTML editor, they don't bite.
Blogger doesn't ask for your firstborn or your life story, but it's still a pain in the arse signing up. On the other hand it'd keep comment spam down to almost nil.
If you wanted something simple, mine (www.enlartenment.com/journal/, only 80% excitement-free) is pretty much self-hosting and only needs PHP (which the server this site's on seems to support OK.). Converting from other formats would be easy (no fancy databases or other cruft needed)
As for the timezone, programmers and geography are oft unacquainted. ;-)
Michael.
At January 04, 2005 2:49 AM, KevSlider said…
But...but I was using notepad to update my site when I had it up a year ago. I'm so outdated!
At January 04, 2005 12:39 PM, Strongblade! said…
I blog, therefor I am...
At January 04, 2005 12:42 PM, Umknock said…
Yay blogger... I think it's all I know :o( it's so simple I love it!
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