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Recent pet peeves

  • When blogs I like don't have RSS feeds that let me read them in my email client, so I actually have to check to see if they've updated
  • Captchas that use numbers. I do a lot of computing in the dark! I can't see where the numbers are! Spell words, because my fingers know how to find letters in the dark.
  • Flash animations with a "skip intro" link built into the Flash. I don't have Flash at work. I haven't had any luck upgrading the plugin on Firefox to Flash 7. This means that there are a lot of HTML sites I can't enter because I can't view the animation with the link in it. Stop that!
  • The nagging suspicion that there is a world-wide conspiracy among pants, desks and blankets to touch, rub against or hit the spot on my knee where I cut it shaving and ripped a few layers of skin off. It hurrrts!

srah - Wednesday, 5 January 2005 - 12:49 PM
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gravatar Bobby - January 5, 2005 - 2:21 PM - ℓ

I don't even know the first thing about using an RSS feed. And even though I read about these captchas you speak of, I still don't understand the peeve. Sometimes I feel so tech-dumb.

gravatar katie - January 5, 2005 - 4:40 PM - ℓ

I'm sorry!! Prease to forgive! Want me to email you when I post? That is, until I can figure out how to set up this RSS thingie?

gravatar George Hotelling - January 5, 2005 - 5:05 PM - ℓ

For the new version of ArborBlogs I am using the RSS aggregator as the blog directory, which unfortunately cuts off a few users. It's too hard to maintain a separate aggregator and directory though.

Katie - you can get the templates you need at http://www.movabletype.org/default_templates.shtml

gravatar Elin - January 5, 2005 - 7:38 PM - ℓ

What is this feeding you speak of so fondly?

gravatar srah - January 5, 2005 - 11:06 PM - ℓ

Here are some links to information about RSS feeds for a couple of the more popular blog publishing systems:
Blogger
Movable Type

gravatar srah - January 5, 2005 - 11:44 PM - ℓ

And here's an example of a site using a captcha to verify that the commenter is a real person rather than an automated spam-bot. It's just a security measure to try to block spam.

gravatar Michele - January 6, 2005 - 7:18 PM - ℓ

Pausing for a moment to say hello and to thank you for stopping by yesterday, de-lurking day.
This gives me a glorious chance to visit so many new sites and re-visit some that I have not been to in a while.

Ah, the joy of the blogsphere. Yes, it can be a joy!

gravatar Frank - January 7, 2005 - 10:42 PM - ℓ

Have you seen that FedEx commercial on TV with the pirate who goes ARRGH?

gravatar srah - January 8, 2005 - 12:44 AM - ℓ

:D

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