- My ultimate usage of MyBlogLog comes down to seeing my face all over the web. And enjoying it… #
- The question of the day is – will I get sued or merely not paid? #
- Twitter for groups sounds cool! http://www.jazzychad.net/twgroups/ <http://www.jazzychad.net/twgroups/> #
- With this group thing, I wish more of the ppl I know where Twittering. #
- Google Phone=Linux+GPS+Google+cheap. Sounds like something that I want. http://tinyurl.com/ytml8t <http://tinyurl.com/ytml8t> #
Year: 2007
Enjoying the “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”
Although I try to limit my television to as little as I can, I have to say that I enjoy the “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” series. Not that I a big fan of detective genre or occasional lesson in human anatomy, but somehow it all comes together. It’s a slow going story with episodes being separated enough so that I can watch them each on its own, but with enough connection to build the characters. It has a little bit of everything – life, humor, action, crime, nice stories, pretty good acting; and the proportions work for me.
(image source: IMDB)
There are a few other TV series on roughly the same subject going on at roughly the same time, but nothing comes even close. They seem to either focus on supermodel cops, or deepest details of decomposed organic materials, or on vague logic connecting scenes together. None of these appeals to me after a long day at work.
Browsing through IMDB, I get the feeling that I’m not the only one enjoying the series. For better or worse, they’ve made through eight (8!) seasons and still going. Also the user rating seems rather high – 8.6 out of 10. Nice.
New theme tour
While I’m still working on the theme, I thought I’d give you a brief of overview of changes, except for the obvious visual ones.
- Google AdSense is gone. I’ve been planning to do this for a long time but never got down to it. I don’t want to have any ads on my personal blog anymore. And, it wasn’t making me that much anyway.
- RSS feed got fixed. The problem was caused by one of the plugins which I’m not using for a long time now. Sorry for the delayed inconvenience.
- Flickr images moved from top of the page to the side. It should make page loading a bit faster, but this remains to be seen. More testing and feedback needed here.
- Comments are separated from pingbacks and trackbacks. I have yet to find one of the posts that has both comments and trackbacks (this was a long time ago), but the theme seems to support it.
- A few old and broken pages are gone now (Archives, Blogroll, Stats, Affiliate stuff, etc). Instead, blog gained the site map. It might still go over a few changes though. The permanent link to it is at the bottom of the page.
- There is now a list of recent entries on the sidebar. I remember a few people requesting this. Maybe I’ll add the comments too one day.
- There are a few header images now, which depend on your location on the site.
Things that remain to be done are:
- sort out categories and tags, especially with the upcoming WordPress 2.3 taxonomy in mind
- select and crop my own header images
Theme change – Cutline 3 column
It’s that time of year again, when I feel like breaking the stuff that works and changing the all familiar looks. I’m currently changing the theme of this blog to Cutline 3 column, as well as fixing a bunch of outstanding stuff (like broken RSS feed). Things are shaky, but by now you should be used to it.
I’ll let you know once I’m finished… Thank you for your patience.
Email and RSS
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about email and RSS. These are two different ways to communicate and notify, with each having its own pros and cons. Here is a nice summary of pros and cons.
I am getting more than half of my daily information either via email or via RSS feeds. And during the last few years I saw several shifts changing towards one, then back to the other, and then back all over again. Being so different, both email and RSS are extremely useful. And as much as I’d love to have all of my stuff in one place, I don’t think I’ll be losing either one of these any time soon.
One of the things that I’ve noticed happening is a return of trust to email subscriptions. Before, I wouldn’t have bothered with giving my email address to a web site that I see for the first time. They’d probably send me SPAM, and I’d probably have no way to unsubscribe.
These days though, many web sites use standard software, like WordPress, with standard plugins, like send follow-up comments to email. Surprisingly, this makes the difference. While I still don’t trust the site, I trust the software that it uses. I know that there will probably a working link to unsubscribe from further emails in each message they’ll send. I see that I’m using this feature on other sites more and more.
With this, I have a better combination of notifications. Before I was subscribing to comment feeds on sites where I left comments and that created a mess in my feed reader. I had some feeds that I couldn’t even remember how got in. But now, I subscribe to feeds of the most interesting sites, email alerts for search results that I care about, and comments follow-ups via email.
It seems to work nicely…