So while on conference calls this morning, I have been tweaking the blog. I updated the version, and tried to get blog by mail to work, but it just isn’t any good. I installed an acronym replacer, that I presume is licensed under the GPL. Let’s see how it works.
Category Archives: The Blog
Updated Look and Feel
Well, instead of writing a bunch of posts, I have updated the look and feel of the blog. I used the Connections theme from the WordPress web site. I hope this makes it more pleasing to read. It doesn’t handle pictures well, but that’s not what the blog is for, that’s what the gallery is for.
Good Advice at Using Links
The IBM internal guidance for posting on wikis was actually quite good. The piece of advice that stuck with me as good style was never to post a link by writing “look form more information here: http://www.obsballona.org/”
One should always merely include the link as part of the discourse. Sometimes you need to think about how to compose it, but it is better that way.
Reason for Existence
Existential post. Consider that a warning.
I suppose the first premise of this blog is that no one, except me, will be reading it. That makes it kind of like a diary. Aaron Price of Slacker Astronomy described blogs as “primarly having one topic.” I have trouble with that definition as I have trouble writing any regular postings on a consistent topic.
Powerline does politics. LGF does the Middle East. But if I rant (or whatever) I just want to rant. Or post valuable links. Or Astronomy tips. Or whatever.
So that is what I will do.