I have always wanted to write informative and comprehensive articles based on what I have learned. But being the Great Procrastinator™, most of the times I couldn’t be bothered enough or do not have the time to write longer than two sentences max. So I thought, “Hey, why not just write it down anyway, and stick it together with the other things I have learned today, and call it ‘Things I Learned Today’?” So there it is.
After all this is what web logs were really meant for originally, writing logs on the web.
The first entry is probably longer than the expected average TILT post length because I had some time to spare today.
I decided to combine the items together in one post instead of splitting them into separate posts. It’s not about the length, there’s nothing wrong with short posts. It’s just that I feel that I could include more interesting stuff in the combined post which would otherwise not be included because they might not have been “blogworthy” by themselves.
I’ve spent most of my Good Friday holiday installing Priyadi’s im_smiley plugin. The install process itself was very quick and painless, but I found some bugs, and I wanted to have clickable smileys, and I had to figure out how to have live preview of the comment, so it took a while. The bugs were quickly ironed out by Priyadi. The live preview bit didn’t take very long to implement either.
The clickable smileys was not part of the original plugin, so I modified the plugin to provide that functionality. I notified Priyadi about my modifications, he quickly incorporated my changes and adjusted them to his code. He released version 4.0 of the plugin right away. :D
You can get the plugin from Priyadi’s im_smiley plugin, or from my local copy.
I was playing around with Planet to create an aggregate blog based on Thomas‘ idea to create a collective blog. Planet is not, in my opinion, a collective blog per se; it’s an aggregate blog because it pulls the entries from the syndication feeds of the subcriptions and conviniently aggregate them together in one place. A collective blog, however, is a blog, unique to a topic, that has more than one author posting entries to the blog, hence the name collective blog because the blog is done collectively.
Anyway, the new aggregate blog site I just created is Planet Terasi. It focuses mainly on Indonesian bloggers who share common interests in blogging and technology in general. Let me know if you’d like your blog to be included (or removed), or to submit your Hackergotchi.
Woohoo, finally I got around to setting up a blog. It’s pretty rudimentary at the moment; more fancy stuff coming hopefully a bit later (in other words 3 or 4 months, hah!). Believe me, folks, I wanted to do the blog thing since a long time ago, but those of you who know me personally know that I procrastinate way too much. So this isn’t about trends. Really. I have always thought that a blog is a good way to manage content for personal websites; at least for me anyway.
The old website is still available for your perusal while I work on the blog layout. I don’t plan to move most of the old contents to the new website except for a select few.
Thanks to Priyadi for the “encouragements” and to the excellent people who brought us WordPress.
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