I wanted to use some plugins for my blog and I found a couple that I liked, but they had to use a widget ready theme. Since my theme wasn’t “widget ready”, I installed one that was.
How do you like?
I wanted to use some plugins for my blog and I found a couple that I liked, but they had to use a widget ready theme. Since my theme wasn’t “widget ready”, I installed one that was.
How do you like?
This blog reads like a Cole’s Notes of the Bible. He doesn’t contadict any of the stories. He just lays it out as it is presented, face value, for his readers.
Slate blogs the Bible. – By David Plotz – Slate Magazine
So, the tale of Dinah unsettled me, to say the least. If this story was strutting cheerfully through the back half of Genesis, what else had I forgotten or never learned? I decided I would, for the first time as an adult, read the Bible. And I would blog about it as I went along. For the millions of Jews and Christians who know the Bible intimately, this may seem obscene: Why should an ignoramus write about the stories and lessons that you know by heart and understand well? I don’t intend any kind of insult. My goal is not to find contradictions, mock impossible events, or scoff at hypocrisy. Nor am I quite stupid enough to pretend that Judaism (or Christianity) is just the Bible. Jews are not only the People of the Book but the People of Many Books. There is the rest of the Hebrew Bible—the Prophets and Writings, the vast commentary of the Talmud, the stories of the midrashim, and thousands and thousands of years of other law and story and commentary. This 4,000years’ worth of delving and discussion is totally unfamiliar to me—I can’t hope to compete with its wisdom. Nor is there any shortage of modern advice on how to read the Bible. (Just look up “How to read the Bible” on Amazon.) There are experts to tell you why the Bible is literally true, others to advise you how to analyze it as history, and still others to help you read it as literature. You can learn how to approach it as a Jew, a Catholic, an evangelical Protestant, a feminist, a lawyer, a teenager.
Not that most have you would have noticed. But over the last few days, I have been migrating my website to Jody’s hosting provider. Jody, offered this service to me for only a coffee a week!
Still working out some bugs from the move, but all is going well so far.
Thanks Jody!
I am following suit with J-Walk Blog and Jody and adding my monitor the the monitor chain.
Decided to change the theme because of some bugs that I just couldn’t be bothered to fix in the old theme. Bugs like searching! I also wanted something with 3 column style. I kept the blue, even though it’s used to death, I like it.
Just out of curiousity, I created accounts on some popular blogs. All of which I hated except WordPress.com.
Here are the results of my expiriments:
| WordPress.com: http://rekounas.wordpress.com | |
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I liked the interface. Very familiar since I use the WordPress software to run my own blog. Easy to use. |
| MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/rekounas | |
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Argh! It took me 20 attempts to get past the creation of the account. Hated all the add stuff and added crap all over the place. Customizing your blogs style is awful. The do not have a list of templates but they do allow you to use your own css. May I never login there again! |
| MSN: http://spaces.msn.com/rekounas/ | |
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Uh, no thanks. I am assuming this is where all the teens and spammers host their blogs. Pretty easy to use but lacks any creativity. |
| Live Journal: http://rekounas.livejournal.com | |
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After fiddling with it a bit, I was able to get a style that I liked. Not too bad, but not my cup of tea. I don’t like the fact that if you are not a Live Journal user, your comments show up as anonymous. |
| Blogger: http://rekounas.blogspot.com | |
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Ah, the ever popular blogger. Interface is ok. I looked at the customization for 2 minutes and decided it would not be something that interests me. A fair amount of templates to choose from. Easy to use but not for me. |
Now, if you know how to setup Apache, MySQL, and PHP; I recommend the WordPress.org software. Obviously, this software would have to be hosted either on your own PC or through some hosting service.
It’s pretty easy to maintain and with all the plugin’s it allows a lot of customization.
My blog went down starting last night after midnight sometime. Not sure what the issue was but I will take a look at the logs and see if it was Apache or MySQL.
I saw a post on J-Walk Blog about blog influence. He found a site that measures stuff like that called Bloginfluence.
Here is the formula:
[(blog+posts+web links) + (bloglines subs * 2)] * 1+(Pagerank/10)
Under my new domain www.rekounas.org, I have the following influence:
Pretty crappy huh?
My old doman rekounas.myserver.org, I have the following influence:
Wow! Still shitty I think.
Could this be true? Bloglines up for sale?
Ok. This one goes out to the regulars. How many of you noticed a change on my blog today? Jody, shut your mouth!