I went through my posts and found that more than half of them were simply dumped in the “Uncategorized” category that comes with WordPress. I realized that I didn’t like my categories and they were actually obstacles to me posting. I went through and added categories for what I had posted and want to post about in the future. I ditched a few and added catchall categories like “Life” and “Geek” to cover some of those miscellaneous posts. Also any post with a picture I took got stuck in “Photography”. I guess my New Year’s resolution for 2008 is to make my blog more interesting and cover more topics that I enjoy. For example, I love movies, but it seems I haven’t posted once about them. The Movies category is empty and having it there will encourage me to post on that specific topic.
Sorry if my blog thought you were a spammer
I use the plugin Bad Behavior on top of Aksimet to stop spam on my blog and something went strange with the old version I have; a blacklist started coming back with false positives but it has been fixed. So if you couldn’t post a comment try again.
Gmail and AIM together at last
I’ve been a faithful user of Gmail for a little over 2 years now and one of the things I never really used was the built-in chat since most people use AIM to chat. The Gmail team released a new feature today that allows you to login to your AIM account and have your buddies show up in the “chat” list with your other Gmail contacts. I haven’t been much of a chatter for a while and I even went through today and purged my buddy list of over 50 screen names.
The integration with Gmail is a little primitive (as is Gmail’s chat), but it works great for the amount of chatting I do. The one feature that I would love to see is the ability to map AIM screen names to Gmail contacts so they don’t show up twice in the chat list. That would be uber-slick. If you use Gmail try it out, hit the options button on the bottom left of the chat list.
Blog Activity
I’m impressed, I couldn’t keep up with everyone’s blog posts and comments and ended up with a good list of about 80 items to go through from the past 3 days. Got busy upgrading my computer and getting ready to build a media server/HTPC. With so much activity it is definitely important to use an RSS reader like Google Reader which I outlined here.
How Well Do You Know Your World game
Came across this fun little game that combines geographic knowledge and a little speed:
How Well Do You Know Your World
It’s pretty random so you can play through a few times and still get fresh locations. On my third try through I got to level 10 of 12 with a score of 390,828. How well do you know your world?