Chris

Tonight has been spent, among other things, managing my blog layout.  Primarily, I focused on improving linking to other folk:  I added the Recent Comments item, I moved the "blogroll" up a bit and updated the links, and I installed the CommentLuv plugin.  (I don't know if that last will work yet, but why not?)

I will never entirely know what I'm using this blog for.  I have the occasional idle idea of moving entirely over to here (from my LJ journal), but it will never fly.  I get a sense of community from LJ that I don't get from other blogs.  To torture an analogy, LJ is like a dorm, and individual blogs (e.g., any non-LJ blog in the Linkage sidebar item there) are like houses in a suburb.  The analogy is intended to highlight the casual atmosphere of LJ, versus the slightly more formal nature of non-LJ blogs.

Each have their ups and downs.  I tilt more towards casualness, so I'm more on LJ, the end.

*waves hand*  Regardless, I wanted to improve others-linkage because even though this is a teensy hole-in-the-wall as far as blogs go, I want to… include? acknowledge? others.  Some word that means "Though I'm a small corner of the web, every strand counts".

I still get nervous that I'll say the wrong thing or not do something right or whatever.  I greatly admire a bunch of these well-spoken, successful, amazing women who I've linked to on the sidebar there, and I have the doom-anx, you know.  But I figure that so long as I (a) respond well to constructive criticism and (b) continue improving, any fuck-ups I have will not involve deportation.

Anywho.

• I set the &%*$ tag cloud to not be limited in number but be uniform in size.  I cannot abide mixed-size tag clouds.
• I added a random quote generator.  I think.  I may post my Javascript workaround, since none of the plugins are pleasing me at the moment.
• I created a bingo card page.  Gosh is it ever a work in progress, but I lurv it.
• I updated a few plugins what needed it.
• I streamlined my new post page.  Turns out you can remove modules, which cuts down on page load time, yay!

I'm still inordinately pleased with myself for adding and updating that RSS footer plugin, that advises that I will receive comments through here, not through LJ.  I do not want to discourage input, and I really hope I wasn't rude, but I don't get notifications from comments made on the LJ feed, and I don't want to miss them.

And in conclusion, I've been lying to my girlfriend by saying this game is easy.  It's fun, but after a certain level, I want to break out the graph paper.

Or, uh, go to sleep.  Right.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.