Ree’s Blogsome

777 posts so far in this account, mostly daily summaries of my del.icio.us bookmarks. When wordpress.com opened, I created miuty.wordpress.com and mirrored my bookmarks there as well.

Now the del.icio.us service has changed so that I can only send my daily bookmarks to one blog, and that’s got to be my wordpress.com account. There’s no contest - wordpress.com lets me easily backup my posts; Blogsome does not.

But I’m not deleting this account. If people have chanced to find and bookmark my auto-posted entries, they shouldn’t be penalised with having those entries disappear.

Blogsome: good luck, so long, and thanks for all the links.

Yup — again. I’m betting all my quotes and apostrophes get slashes added and not removed. Ten bucks. Betcha I’m right. And again.

Blogsome’s API has been breaking links for months now. It’s quite a pain. Wordpress.com’s works. Therefore, my daily links are moving (RSS feed).

Not sure what that leaves this account for. I’ll have to think on it.

The daily links are suspended until Blogsome’s XML-RPC capability returns, when and if it does. The links are always at http://del.icio.us/ree/ and there’s RSS for everything (the whole enchilada or by tag), should you wish to stay on top of my linking habits. (You stalkery type you.)

That’s 100 posts here. Wow. Mostly link lists, I’m afraid — I hesitate to commit much else to a place without a backup function — but still. It adds up so fast.

When did post preview start working in Opera? *blink* When Blogsome upgraded to WordPress 1.5, I suppose. Nifty!

Oh wow. Admittedly I’m passingly familiar with PHP code. I’m still getting over a nasty head cold, too. But Smarty makes not a lick of sense to me.

Ow. Music hurts my head.

I can’t find a list of all the Smarty tags Blogsome uses. I’ve found lists but they appear incomplete, lacking the parts of my template that are giving me trouble in the first place.

Problems catalog:

• CSS doesn’t repeat on static pages (using Pink Lilies template at least), making the pages look strange and illegible
• Template attempts to include static pages in Recent Posts but gives them URLs of “http://SITENAME.blogsome.com/pages/INSERT-RANDOM-SLUG-HERE” (this may be a problem with private static pages; will test)
• Using the LI button in the admin area puts spaces before each list entry, which may not be a problem but bugs me anyway
• I know it’s WordPress, not Blogsome, but that Firefox button in the admin area pisses me off. What about Opera? What about Safari? Konqueror? Hell, original Mozilla? Link to Browse Happy or IE Bad — I agree completely that IE must be stopped — but tell me my chosen browser is wrong and I will get bitchy.

Man, I wish I could backup these posts.