{"id":10043,"date":"2006-04-09T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/09\/what-are-you-using-as-a-starting-point\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T01:31:23","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T22:31:23","slug":"what-are-you-using-as-a-starting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/09\/what-are-you-using-as-a-starting-point\/","title":{"rendered":"What are you using as a starting point?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Most of the modern browsers allow users to setup a starting page.  Some browsers even let you use several pages or tabs to start working on exactly the things that you need to be working on.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time I was using my own blog as a starting page.  It helped me to get into browsing mood.  I saw what were the last things I&#8217;ve written about and somehow continued from there.  Plus, of course, the most important links are on my blog&#8217;s front page.  Or, at least, they used to be there.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I came to realize that my blog&#8217;s front page is not the best choice for starting point.  The links have been moved around.  And I also need to jump to different places straight away, depending on my mood and time of the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/homepage.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"Starting point\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" id=\"image10044\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/homepage.thumbnail.png?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Starting point\" \/><\/a>So, I created a simple, but very customized page with all the links that I need to get to quickly.  It even features Google&#8217;s search form, so that I can save myself one click.  Yup, that&#8217;s the one on the screenshot.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder though, what are you guys using to start you off?  Is it just a single page or a number of websites?  Is it done by you or by someone else?  Let me know via comments&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Most of the modern browsers allow users to setup a starting page. Some browsers even let you use several pages or tabs to start working on exactly the things that you need to be working on. For a long time I was using my own blog as a starting page. It helped me to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/09\/what-are-you-using-as-a-starting-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are you using as a starting point?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7769,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/06\/fixing-comments\/","url_meta":{"origin":10043,"position":0},"title":"Fixing comments","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I have received a whole bunch of complains that comments are not working properly. 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