Oct 23 2006
innernets ruler
If I were the overlord of the innernets and I could control anything on the net I wanted by simply clicking on a button, these are the 5 things I would do first:
1) Bring back Amy and Steph’s blogs. Amy’s blog has been gone for only a couple of days, but I already miss it.
2) Threaded comments. I’ve tried to add threaded comments to fanless.com a couple of times, but it never worked exactly how I wanted it to. Actually, I never got them to work at all, but I blame a lack of documentation, not a lack of fully functioning brain cells. I think threaded comments are what I miss most from my liveurinal.
3) Theme changer. Back in 2000, one of the things I wanted most on a website was the ability to easily change its look. I think that for the most part, my blog would look how it looks now, but I would also have skins or whatever that were mostly black and mostly green. And maybe one that was mostly blue or red. Oh, I would also want these skins to be selected randomly on each visit.
4) Wider content area! One thing I hate about the theme I am using now is that I can’t post 800 pixel wide pictures. I can’t even post 640 px pics. I mean, I CAN, but then they run into the sidebar and that isn’t good. I like the lightbox thing well enough, but sometimes I’m too lazy to click on pics to make them bigger and 400-450 pixel wide images are just too small for me. I have a big-ass screen for a reason, ya know!
5) What am I listening to? You see that list of stuff I’ve been listening to on the sidebar? It probably lists a bunch of podcasts and maybe some Chamillionaire or rap from the 90s. Well, those tracks are clickable but clicking on them won’t take you anywhere. When I implemented that into the page, I was running dottunes and you COULD download the tracks. But then I got a little scared I was going to get sued or something and it was totally sucking up my bandwidth from home and then I moved my iTunes library to my G3 and when I tried to run dottunes on that computer I found out that my registration was tied to my iMac G5 and it was too much bother to get a new serial number. Maybe I’ll look into getting that fixed tonight.
I think I had a couple more things to add but I forgot them. OH YEAH!! At this moment I have 19,056 pictures in my iPhoto library (all taken within the last 2 years). If it were as simple as clicking a button, they would all be online right now.
October 24, 2006 @ 6:29 am
6) Comment RSS Feeds.
As far as I can see, Riptide is the only local site that let’s you track new comments via RSS. If there are any other sites that offer this, I’d sure like to know who you are.
October 24, 2006 @ 9:51 am
Any wordpress site should. My comment feed is here, but it’s site wide, not post specific.
http://www.fanless.com/blog/comments/feed/
October 25, 2006 @ 5:34 am
Cool, I prefer site wide. Thank you!
I’ll add your comment feed to my reader.
Hope those damn Arabs have easied up on your spamming your comments.
October 25, 2006 @ 8:40 am
Well, the volume is less, but now they’re leaving comments on lots of different posts. It’s kind of fun because I just make up words in my translations so their comments end up saying things like “Oh, Christian you are so awesome and your web site is very much teh awesomes! Will you please be my babies’ daddy???” and stuff like that.
October 27, 2006 @ 1:09 pm
I miss Steph, too.
I’m not gone, I just moved. Check it out!
xoxo
AS