* Journals R11 Install: Journals Product Manager Stephanie reports that the Journals R11 release was successfully installed early this morning. The primary change you'll see is in the footers of your entries:
- From your blog's main page, the text for the direct link to an entry has been changed from "Link to this entry," to the more-common "Permalink."
- "Add to del.icio.us" link added. Learn more about del.icio.us here. (I'll probably start using del.icio.us or another social bookmarking or sharing site to store my blogging slush pile -- potential blog entries I haven't gotten to -- so you'll be able to see what I'm working on.)
- "digg this" link added. See How Digg Works for more info. Also, as Stephanie suggests, see a Beginner's Guide to Digg.
There are a few open issues with R11, so please check out Stephanie's blog for updates.
Also, Stephanie wants to know which methods you guys use for putting photos in your entries, so please tell her.
* Bigfoot Not Found in Virginia: In local news, a few weeks back, some folks found what looked to be a severed human foot in a Spotsylvania County dump. Upon closer inspection, homicide investigators determined it wasn't a human foot -- it was just human-ish.
That's when the Bigfoot/Sasquatch speculation kicked in.
Anyway, today, the Washington Post reports that the foot was actually... a bear's skinned hind paw [features a kind of gross photo].
Thanks -- Joe
4 comments:
Thanks Joe. And as per usual, us in the UK are going to get it later.
That whole bear paw thing is pretty common. If you take a bear paw, and lop off the digits at the first knuckle, it looks remarkably human. This was probably a Bigfoot hoax from the get-go.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
Let's play a game, Joe.
I'm going to ask you a question, and you're going to answer it... but, when you answer it, you're going to pretend that you're talking to a 7 year old, who knows nothing about computers, social networking, tags, etc...
What is del.icio.us, and why should I use it?
If you send me to some other entry, fine... but assume that I'll be asking the same question again, there.
Hi -- the easiest thing to do is show you mine:
http://del.icio.us/JoeLoong
Those are my shared booksmarks I have saved on del.icio.us. It's a "social bookmarks sharing" service, which just means you can save your bookmarks online (with notes and descriptions), and if you like, you can share them (like I'm doing here -- they also have the option of having private bookmarks that only you can see).
Even if you don't want to share your bookmarks, there are other reasons why you might use it -- as long as you have access to an internet connection, you can get to your bookmarks, which is useful if you have multiple computers, or travel. Also, they're searchable and you can organize them in a variety of ways.
There are a bunch of different social bookmarking sites -- del.icio.us is just one of the more established and more popular ones. You just need to find the one that interests you and register for an almost-always free account.
There are a variety of different and convenient ways to save your bookmarks on del.icio.us (including bookmarklets and browser extensions) -- their instructions are pretty good.
Thanks -- Joe (posted & mailed)
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