Test.

This here is a test of the Blogger system.  This is only a test.

Meow?

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More with the tests.

Now I'm checking out labels (tags, categories, monkeys), and whether pigs can fly.

Mmm… flying tagged pig-monkeys…

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The colours…

In creating my layout, I used HTML Color Code Combination Chooser.  You can click on a colour map, adjust RGB settings manually or by slider, or enter in a hex colour code.  It will show you the colour by itself, with complementary colours, and in a small layout preview screen.  It is Highly Neat.

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Blogging sites.

This journal is a new attempt to find a space for my less personal and more substantive posts.  My LJ is for my personal and community-type posts.  I've tried Vox, and their value system did not mesh with mine.  When I say I value usefulness somewhat over style, I mean that I value both, but the former more.  When they suggest that they value style over usefulness, they appear to mean one or the other, and not both.  V. frustrating.

(I may be exaggerating out of a sense of infinite frustration.  I'm okay with that.)

Three things that make Blogger.com awesome already:

1. It has tags.  "Labels", really.  Not that every other blogging system doesn't, but it's still awesome.
2. I – I – can choose to compose posts in HTML format or RTF.  LJ has this, I think; I don't care for WYSIWYG typing, so I don't pay attention unless I'm forced to use it.
3. The tags labels management page is the ideal page.  All others should copy it.  I'd take a screenshot, but my keyboard is a trifle bolloxed at the moment.  So.  There's a column on the left that lists all the labels I've ever used, and a column on the right that displays the last n posts I've made (where n is a number between 5 and 300).  When I click on a label link, it displays only posts with that label attached.  I can search for posts.  I can select all posts with a certain label, remove it (thus removing the label entirely), and, since the check marks aren't removed, add a new or used label to the posts.If I decide that I want the label "Stuffware" to be lowercase", I click the "Stuffware" link, check all boxes (using a handy "Select All" link), remove the label, and add a new label called "stuffware".  If I want all of my -isms posts to be combined into the label "Isms", I go through each label group, remove the label, and add "Isms".

   It is beautiful.  It is almost perfect.  (What would be absolutely perfect would be a way to just straight rename a label, but hey, it's new.)  If I was a totalitarian dictator, I'd force all blogging sites to use that format for their $tags pages.

It's still kind of slow when compared to a site that doesn't depend on all the non-HTML webpage stuff in the world (JavaScript mostly), but given the awesome, I'm prepared to accept that.  The only way it could be more awesome is if it had some Windows-based posting client.

… You know, I honestly expected that I'd find something when searching through Help.  And I did, kind of.  I found out about posting using MS Word.  *slow blink*

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I would love to respond seriously.

Jill of Feministe posts about Sheik Hilaly and his analogy of men:women::cats:meat.  Part of me wants to contemplate this seriously, and use it as an example that feminism is still very necessary…

…but I'm too busy laughing my damn head off.  It's probably shock, but goddamn.  "If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street [...] without a cover and the cats eat it, then whose fault will it be, the cats, or the uncovered meat's?"  I am always taken aback when confronted with prime examples of "People not only believe this stuff on purpose, they share with others??".

(I'm not not envisioning sides of beef wearing tutus…)

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