Archive for February, 2007
Progress Report
Posted on Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Yesterday I posted my list of things to do this week and I wanted to report on how it was going. Top of my list of tasks was to have a go at Aaron Brazell’s custom fields competition. Just now I finished my quick effort and was quite pleased for the time it had taken. Then I found out the competition deadline had been extended. I didn’t know whether to be annoyed that I put so much effort in tonight or pleased that I have extra time to complete bits that had fallen by the wayside in the rush!
Procrastination/Motivation
Posted on Monday, February 26th, 2007
I have never been any good at motivating myself. My university days were filled with lazing around followed by all night rushes to get the work in. Back in school a free period or breaktime before a lesson was enough time to finish the homework or revise for the test. My first teacher, when I was 5, said that I’d do very well if I could always have someone behind me telling me to work and she doesn’t know how right she was.
In spite of this, I’m not doing bad for myself at the moment. I’m comfortable, but I think it may be too comfortable. You may have noticed a drop in the posting towards the end of last week and you probably assumed that I was working on something to blog about or busying myself doing something else important. I wasn’t.
Five Reasons Why I Blog
Posted on Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
I’m pretty bad with memes, I’ve been tagged a couple of times and not gone through with it. Then Laura from Writing Thoughts tagged me with the five reasons why I blog meme. This got me thinking about whether I could produce five reasons or if this was all a futile effort on my part! Well, here I go, here are my reasons for blogging.
On The Redundancy Of nofollow
Posted on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Recently I have been considering the very standard feature of Wordpress that is adding rel="nofollow" to all links in comments. I posted recently how I was receiving next to no comment spam in my Akismet spam folder due it’s latest plugin release. This got me thinking about whether nofollow is worthwhile any more.
The History
nofollow was a Google creation from early 2005 that was supported by both MSN and Yahoo. It was designed to stop the search bots from following links that weren’t necessarily endorsed by the owner of the site it was on. It had a mixed welcome, but was incorporated by many of the major players in blogging. I wasn’t blogging back then, but, as far as I can see, there weren’t many alternatives other than picking through all your comments and deleting them.
Joining Forces For A Better Blogging Experience
Posted on Monday, February 19th, 2007
Gack Ink the new, bring your own blog network recently had their first round of submissions. I had a go and entered this blog and am pleased to say that I was accepted, along with the following other blogs:
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