Word, y’all. Sorry about that. Thought the RSS feed was up, but it wasn’t, but now it is. So problem solved.
It’s been a rough week. I’ll write about most of it in more detail later, but in the meantime there are more pressing matters to deal with. Specifically, my wife’s grandma is in the hospital with serious health problems related to the open heart surgery she had earlier this week. She’s not out of the clear yet so I humbly ask for your prayers and faith in her behalf.
Thanks and see you on the flip side.
Image courtesy of here.
OK. The transition is moving along.
For those of you who are interested (and I can’t imagine anyone wouldn’t be) here’s the list of things left to do before the transition is complete:
- Propagate, dang it! Propagate!
- Change Feedburner settings
- Install Google Analytics
- Install SiteMeter
- Tweak the sidebar goodies
- Show comment count on homepage It only indicates there are comments on posts originally written on WordPress – not the imported ones. So everyone is going to have to click on “No comments” under each post to see if there are, in fact, comments there or not.
- Design tweaks (e.g. rollover states)
- Figure out why when I hit “save” nothing changes on the site Buggy plugin. Disabled it and things are running smoothly.
- Figure out what happened to the second half of 2008 and much of 2009. Looks like it didn’t catch the flight.
If you find anything broken/wrong, please leave me a comment here and I’ll respond.
Thanks.
If you see this it means you’re looking at the new (and hopefully improved) The Other Drummer. The URL is still propogating across the interwebs and I haven’t been able to import all my posts yet. UPDATE: Posts have been imported successfully.
Sadly, I can’t access the new URL from my house yet (I’m posting this from my phone) so I’m sitting around waiting for he propogation to finish so I can wrap up importing and start customizing it a bit.
So congratulations on getting here first. You’re awesome.
I know I’m probably going to offend some people when I say this, so I half-heartedly apologize in advance.
I think this widget could be about the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen.
Honestly, what makes you think anyone wants to see a baby floating around in your virtual uterus, squiggly umbilical cord and all? I’m happy that you’re having a kid. Really. Congratulations. That’s wonderful news. I don’t want a sneak peek. Thanks though.
So I decided to prove the ridiculousness of the widget by cramming 10 little fetuses in my virtual uterus (I never thought I would write those words) and watching them grow. Like sea monkeys. In a few months we’ll see how my digital offspring fare in their crammed space.
Also, I hate blogs that play music automatically when the page loads.
I just had this little notification pop up in my Google Reader. Apparently the web app has taken it upon itself to add feeds from the sites I have listed in my blogroll here at The Other Drummer.
It has the potential to be a nice touch, although so far I’ve noticed a few flaws:
- It’s stuck at 49 unread articles when there is clearly only one unread post. Refreshing doesn’t fix the problem.
- Fundamentally, doesn’t it stand to reason that if I have a feed in my blogroll I’ve already added it to my RSS reader?
- That being said, the three blogs Reader added to my feeds are sites I’ve already subscribed to. They should compare the blogroll sites against my existing RSS feeds to prevent duplication.
Does anybody else have this feature? Is it working for you? What are your thoughts? Or did I get selected (again) by Google’s divine providence?
UPDATE: Clicking the “Learn more” link in Reader took me to a Blogger Help page with an Internal Error/We Can’t Find What You’re Looking For message. The plot thickens.
UPDATE 2: I just logged in (it’s now about 11:40 pm) and the feature is gone. I’ve checked out the forums over at the
Google Reader Blog and three other people have reported the same thing. So far it doesn’t look like it’s being received well.
UPDATE 3: I just checked my site stats and have had five visitors today from Mountain View, California. Google…are you out there?
