My apologies to Jane and Micah. Due to my over zealous effort in customizing my new blog home, my “comments” page displayed some strange behavior. All the comments made to my previous post prior to this went to the very last post at the bottom of the main blog page. Don’t ask me why. I only customized the side bar with some widgets. I took the customization away and it seems OK now. Jane and Micah, you must’ve thought that the comments just went away, huh? My bad.
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This is no news to Flickr users, I don’t think. I downloaded a new web browser recommended, Flock, on the Flickr site. Recommended for it’s ease of use in the areas of blogging, photo sharing and news/blog reading. I was immediately impressed when I opened the browser. It started with a quick setup process. You enter your photo and blog account and voila, you are ready to manage your photos and blog with the ease of “drag and drop”. It works with Flickr, Photobucket, WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Your photos from your online photo sharing account are ready for you to drag & drop into your blog post without worrying about the code. You can even save snippets of text or images when browsing and use them later for your blog posts. How cool. I haven’t tried news/blog reading. I am sure that’s nice too.
Because they advertise it as a photo/blog (social) browser, I thought it would be a slimmed down version of other browsers. I thought there would be limited tools to do other stuff. Not true. I quickly looked at the preferences that you can set for your browsing experience. Everything seems to be there. Maybe even nicer than some of the others. But of course, it is new and there are things to be looked at still. But so far I give two thumbs up for Flock!
OK, time to go clean my “desk” area.
Blogged with Flock
Yesterday I started looking for a different theme for my new WordPress blog. Not that I hated the style of the last one. It was just too darn difficult to read. For me anyway. So I searched and searched and found Subtle by Glued Ideas. It looked quite nice and compatible with WordPress Widgets. Yes, Widgets. Little blocks of codes that can be dragged and dropped into the sidebars. No source code editing. Just drag and drop. How nice is that?
That was just the beginning…
I started playing with different configurations, different add-ons. WordPress is so flexible that I keep finding things to experiment with. Things to learn. In other words, I got drawn into the world of widgets and codes. And here I am, still tinkering. The best discovery so far was from within the theme options. I was asked if I wanted to configure FeedBurner. Hmmm… FeedBurner. Sounded familiar. So I followed the link and paid them a visit. Wow! What a great service. Basically they take your blog feed and make it readable by most blog/rss readers. Plus they give you the option to immediately pin many popular services when you update your blog. Services like Bloglines, Technorati and Ping-o-matic, so that you won’t have to wait for them to come looking for something new. This discovery came just when I started noticing that Bloglines was having problems reading my blog feed. Probably because of the modifications. With FeedBurner, now I can feel assured that the feed is in a standard format and updated frequently. Plus I was able to merge my Flickr feed into the blog feed, which means that people will know when I add new public photos. AND, FeedBurner makes it easy to subscribe to a feed. I have it configured in the sidebar. Take a look and click on the icon and see how easy it is for people to subscribe to your blog. I highly recommend FeedBurner’s services. I think everyone should try it.
No, I am not being paid by FeedBurner. 
On to something else…
My dear friend Mariko gave me a couple of bags of unginned cotton. Big bags. (Thanks Mariko!) I started playing with separating the fiber from the seeds. It is quite easy to do. Only a few stubborn ones here and there. I’ll probably all of it by hands and card it to make punis. Ah, the thought of that just makes me so relaxed. I hope that we’ll find a nice rental house with a nice backyard when we move norht, so I can sit in a comfy chair with a big basket of fiber to work with. 
Here’s a little fella that I’ve noticed hanging around in the neighborhood since last year. I think it’s home is not far from here. I like to whistle when I see it, and it always seems to be very curious and listens intently.
