No, not that ‘it is finished…’ Some of you may recall may back in the fall I set out on a mission to run through all the blogs both here on Mephistos and all the other blogs I host. The effort was to fix some of those little grammatical errors that are so easily missed when running through the process of posting, even with proof reading. I was using the After the Deadline tool that does a decent job of catching grammar issues (or at least pointing out potential problems), catching a lot of spelling errors, and certainly helps with all those typographical errors and really helps with those stop, go, stop, go though process mix-ups. I am not sure the start date, but want to suggest late September or early October. Over five hundred posts (counting all the blogs) later and the grammar/spelling check is complete.
I have been running with the blog post a day process here at Mephistos since the first of January with an end goal of doing it every day this year. It is not always easy mind you, but generally that has to do with actually finding the time around my generally busy and hectic schedule to spend the 20-30 minutes typically required to write the post. Of course sometimes they come a little quicker than that and yet other times, when you add in a bit for finding an appropriate image that is legal to use, giving credit and doing some proof reading and editing it ends up closer to hour. Anyway, while doing this a following some other folks that are trying the same a few things I have observed that I thought I would share.
No, that is not me sneezing the title of this post, it is actually Atahualpa. What is Atahualpa? It is a theme for WordPress. Though saying that is about like saying the Hubble is a telescope. It is a them that allows for complete customization of your theme with a very handy and yet easy to use set of screens that largely gives you options to choose from but allowing for the flexibility to customize in most cases as well. It then takes the information you an input and builds a file or two that are pulled in when the WordPress system needs to display things on the screen, to give yo the theme you have put together. I think I have mentioned it here before and was more than happy about it at the time. Today, I have a slightly different opinion.
I have not done a group of my short observations in a while and decided it was time to do so. I have a list that is from around Christmas, but I will come back to that one. This one was a list that I had already started and especially came back to when I was writing another blog entry. It was during that writing (see common sense below) that I realized it was only a few words and completely contained. Anyway, without further ado here is some of the things I have been observing and perhaps am continuing to observe here in the early part of the new year, 2011…
If you have been reading anywhere the last week or two you have probably heard some mention of RSS feeds and the useful technology that goes with it being dead. There has been just about as much, if not more debate claiming that it alive and well just in case you are wondering. So which is it? Well, as with so many things, I think it depends on your vantage point and your usage. But maybe I should first backup and explain a little bit of what RSS feeds are and how they are even used, because I suspect that a number of readers have never heard of them.
