July 2007 Archives
For quite some time, my old domain jeroensangers.com had been in monkey mode. That is to say, there was nothing interesting at all, except for a photo of me in my younger days. For a long time I wanted to put up something more useful, but never started.
And you know how it goes: the moment you start, you can't finish anymore, and within a small period of time my new site was finished. I installed Joomla!, chose one of the default themes, removed a whole bunch of clutter and wrote a few simple texts. And there it is, my new personal hub, where you can read all about me:
Whenever I had an idea for a blog post, I used to create a new entry on that particular blog, jot down my idea, and save the post as a draft. As soon as I had more time, I checked the list with draft posts, chose a draft, and finished the post.
What had worked perfectly for a long time, lately became a burden. The problem is that over the time I have collected a great number of interesting themes to write about, resulting in a big amount of drafts. Some of those drafts only contain an URL, while other are more elaborated. In short, it became too difficult to find out quickly what was what.
So now I have changed my blogging workflow. I transferred all my ideas to Google Notebook, where they are nicely ordered per blog. On that page I can see all ideas with their actual content at a single page. One glance on my Notebook, and I can quickly decide what to write. Furthermore, with the Google Notebook Firefox extension I am able to select a text on a random web page and copy it together with the address of the page to my Notebook.
From now on, drafts in my blogging software are actually pieces I already have started to write, which usually are only a few. This set-up keeps things clear, and speeds up my blogging workflow.
Very neat. At TravBuddy you can check the countries you have visited, and they will produce a good-looking map for you:
Holiday is over, the hard life is back!
After a bad start, our holiday was great! We spend one week in St-George's-de-Didonne (tasting oysters and great wines at the beach) and one week in St-Jean-Pied-de-Port (hiking in the mountains and eating some of the best tapas).
One of the first things I did after coming back was fixing this site by upgrading Movable Type to the latest beta release. Of course I know that I shouldn't have upgrated the software just before leaving for vacation, but I took the bet and lost...
Saw this great parody of Microsoft's new Surface Computing initiative over on Jason Clarke's site.
