October 18, 2006
To compensate for yesterday's early bird experience, I came into the office today at 1 PM, which is the latest I've ever reported to work as an HP-er.
(Actually I just waited for the Smart BRO contractors to come in the morning and fix our antenna but they never come. Lousy service.)
(Actually I just waited for the Smart BRO contractors to come in the morning and fix our antenna but they never come. Lousy service.)
September 17, 2006
I screwed up big time in my Blogger beta testing. I thought I had layouts all figured out, but at one point it was so bad that my blog started generating "404 Not Found" errors. Conclusion: Blogger Beta's layouts system sucks. It'd be awesome if someone was kind enough to write an easy-to-understand tutorial, but as it stands, trying to customize it is just not worth it.
Heck, I wouldn't even have bothered with layouts if I knew that the labels worked with the old templating system. I was surprised when I reverted back to my old template and I saw that the labels that I tried out were still there! Notice that I went back through all my blog entries and retroactively labeled all 50+ of them. Whew.
What I could've used from the new layouts is the widget that lists all the labels I've used. I haven't figured out a hack yet but for now, you can head over to the RubeTube on Technorati to explore my tags/labels; it's there on the upper-left. (It's not updated in real-time though)
Heck, I wouldn't even have bothered with layouts if I knew that the labels worked with the old templating system. I was surprised when I reverted back to my old template and I saw that the labels that I tried out were still there! Notice that I went back through all my blog entries and retroactively labeled all 50+ of them. Whew.
What I could've used from the new layouts is the widget that lists all the labels I've used. I haven't figured out a hack yet but for now, you can head over to the RubeTube on Technorati to explore my tags/labels; it's there on the upper-left. (It's not updated in real-time though)
Labels: Blogger Beta, rant, RubeTube, Technorati
August 17, 2006
I'm one disgruntled and frustrated Smart BRO customer. And I'm not the only one. I rarely go bonkers over anything, but the constantly resetting connections and incompetent call center agents will drive anyone crazy.
But despite all its failings, Smart BRO is still better than no Smart BRO. The broadband revolution is upon us, my friends. It is time to unlearn the virtue of patience that our forefathers have taught us. The information superhighway is no place for plodding pedestrians.
Damn, dial-up is slow.
P.S. Please don't subscribe to Smart BRO unless you enjoy pain. You have been warned.
(I got so carried away, I totally forgot that I'm waiting for a job offer from Smart. Oooh boy. Bah, whatever... customers have a right to complain!)
But despite all its failings, Smart BRO is still better than no Smart BRO. The broadband revolution is upon us, my friends. It is time to unlearn the virtue of patience that our forefathers have taught us. The information superhighway is no place for plodding pedestrians.
Damn, dial-up is slow.
P.S. Please don't subscribe to Smart BRO unless you enjoy pain. You have been warned.
(I got so carried away, I totally forgot that I'm waiting for a job offer from Smart. Oooh boy. Bah, whatever... customers have a right to complain!)
August 02, 2006
Tags. The feature that is number one on every Blogger blogger's wishlist. If it is not at the top of your list, then please tell me what could possibly be more important in this Web 2.0 world we live in. And I don't want to use some silly hack like this or this, I want built-in support.
The guys working on Blogger will figure this one out soon enough. I mean, if I didn't have faith in them in them, I should've just gotten myself a Wordpress blog, right? But noooo, I just had to go get myself a Blogger blog. I still don't know why I didn't go for http://rubetube.wordpress.com (not a working URL). It should be simple enough since they have an import-from-Blogger tool. But right now, it's too soon to give up on Google (and it's too soon to spam my friends again to tell them about another blog when this one barely has any entries). Perhaps in the far future, if (not when) I become as famous as Robert Scoble (who uses Wordpress).
(And I will never use Windows Live Spaces, a.k.a. the MySpace wannabe.)
When (not if) tagging is integrated into Blogger, I boldly predict that the feature will be called "Labels", in true Google fashion. "Categories" is probably a good candidate as well. "Tags" won't work because they're used in templating.
But to be honest, I must confess that I'm not used to the whole concept of tagging (even if I am an avid user of del.icio.us). I'm terribly OC when it comes to consistently naming tags. Right now, it annoys me to no end that I have a tag called "parody" and another one called "oldies"; shouldn't they both be pluralized (or maybe not)? And how much different is "nostalgia" from "oldies"? Tagging becomes too much of a chore at times. Maybe the Blogger team is coming up with a feature that analyzes the contents of an entry (only available to blogs in English during beta) and then automatically assigns them tags that are consistent with those used by the rest of the blogosphere. Heck, maybe I should write this nifty program (and win an award or two).
To summarize, I began this entry clamoring for the addition of a tagging feature, and ended with an emotional critique/bashing of the tagging process and a proclamation that will most likely never come to pass.
The guys working on Blogger will figure this one out soon enough. I mean, if I didn't have faith in them in them, I should've just gotten myself a Wordpress blog, right? But noooo, I just had to go get myself a Blogger blog. I still don't know why I didn't go for http://rubetube.wordpress.com (not a working URL). It should be simple enough since they have an import-from-Blogger tool. But right now, it's too soon to give up on Google (and it's too soon to spam my friends again to tell them about another blog when this one barely has any entries). Perhaps in the far future, if (not when) I become as famous as Robert Scoble (who uses Wordpress).
(And I will never use Windows Live Spaces, a.k.a. the MySpace wannabe.)
When (not if) tagging is integrated into Blogger, I boldly predict that the feature will be called "Labels", in true Google fashion. "Categories" is probably a good candidate as well. "Tags" won't work because they're used in templating.
But to be honest, I must confess that I'm not used to the whole concept of tagging (even if I am an avid user of del.icio.us). I'm terribly OC when it comes to consistently naming tags. Right now, it annoys me to no end that I have a tag called "parody" and another one called "oldies"; shouldn't they both be pluralized (or maybe not)? And how much different is "nostalgia" from "oldies"? Tagging becomes too much of a chore at times. Maybe the Blogger team is coming up with a feature that analyzes the contents of an entry (only available to blogs in English during beta) and then automatically assigns them tags that are consistent with those used by the rest of the blogosphere. Heck, maybe I should write this nifty program (and win an award or two).
To summarize, I began this entry clamoring for the addition of a tagging feature, and ended with an emotional critique/bashing of the tagging process and a proclamation that will most likely never come to pass.
Labels: Blogger, del.icio.us, rant, Web 2.0
