Contours

One of the things that I’m a bit envious about with Google Blogger is the sense of community.  Part of this is because everyone can comment on everyone else’s blog using their current credentials, and don’t need to create a new login and account for each new site.  This is a bit harder to do in WordPress, but the Gigya Sociable plug-in helps by allowing you to login using your existing Blogger/Facebook/Twitter, etc account and comment.  You’ll notice the new links to the side.

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After a last ditch snowfall a few weeks ago, winter finally gave way and suddenly it was sunny days in the 70′s.  Perusing our yard, the daffodils are in bloom, the bushes are sporting some green, the birds are munching away at the feeder, and splashes of color are emerging everywhere.  Six years ago the house was a new construction and had no landscaping.  Everything which has come since then was planted by me and Kiersten (and Kiersten’s really the green thumb – before we met I was lucky if I didn’t kill a house cactus).  I was thinking about all of the funny things that we learned along the way, and decided to compile a list: Read more »

After visiting Janet Pantry’s site, I noticed the artist blogroll was live – it had the most recent post of each blog along with a thumbnail.  This appears to be a standard widget in Blogger, but unfortunately in WordPress it’s somewhat hard to do.  After a bit of tinkering with plugins and code, I’ve updated the list on my site to follow suit (like all computer tasks, this was strangely harder than I expected).   I like that, instead of a static link list, it’s a dynamic list of current content.  Hopefully it will generate some more clicks to the sites of the artists I’ve linked, and give them a bit more traffic.  Of course it’s also nice for me to log on and see the latest from all of my favorite blogs at a glance.

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