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Typical Blog Apology

Rich — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:40:03 +0000

I’ve neglected this blog a lot lately. So here is the typical blog apology. I’ve seen thousands of these, and there are probably three or four of them on this site alone. My excuses are flimsy, but I’ll go ahead and spew them here.

I have a wife and 2 children that leave me no time for blogging.
Depending on when you catch me, I’m working either 3 or 4 jobs.
I’ve been so wrapped up in the work I’m doing, I haven’t had time to post.
Content on this blog in the past hasn’t been very compelling.

Okay, Excuse are finished. Now, what you really want to hear. I’ve made a resolution to post more often. I’ve also made a resolution to fix the compelling content issue. I realize that I have a technical job and sometimes solutions don’t exist for thing I’m trying to do. So in the future, you will see some of the solutions for those technical herdles I’ve hit in my work. This give those solutions a place to reside and it allows me to share them with other people.

Formategory

Rich — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:47:15 +0000

Chris Finke is working on a WordPress plugin that lets you specify a template for posts based on their category. It’s tentatively named Formategory (Format + Category). This looks like something I could use; hopefully he gets it done and releases it.

Unstyled Content

Rich — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:19:10 +0000

I’m working on a new theme for the website. I think the new theme will look pretty nice when its done, but as I’m testing out different things you may get a page that is unstyled and looks pretty ugly. Just check back later and you will probably get the correct style.

About Page

Rich — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:57:57 +0000

I’ve finally gotten around to filling out my about page. If you have a free second check it out and let me know what you think. I wanted to provide some information about me and the website, but I didn’t want there to be to much personal information. I think I struck a pretty good balance.

OpenID identity URL

Rich — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:47:03 +0000

I’ve now made richwklein.com an OpenID identity URL for myself. That means that for any website that can use OpenID for authentication, all I need to do is type in richwklein.com and I’m done. To do this I setup an account with MyOpenID. I then added 2 links to the header of my blog.

That is all there is to it. This blog is now my “identity URL”.

Moving Content

Rich — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:23:19 +0000

I’ve gotten most of the content moved over from the old site to the new site. I haven’t gotten it all though so some pages will be missing until I do. Expect to see the site change drastically over the next couple of weeks as I get the content moved over.

Long Time

Rich — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:59:00 +0000

Holy cow it has been a long time since I’ve posted. I’m not even sure anyone still looks at this thing anymore. Here is kind of a run down of what’s been happening for those of you who do.

Work for Netscape is going well. I’m really enjoying the work I’m doing. Checkout the teaser stories to see some of the information about the new browser.

I’m preparing to get version 0.9.5 of Forecastfox out by the end of the week barring any unforseen issues.

Everyone in the house is sick. The boys have bronchialitis, so I’m sure that’s what Rachel and I have too. It’s really hard with Wyatt being so young and not really wanting to eat. He’ll be 3 months next week. It’s amazing how fast time goes, but it seems like I don’t remember a time before he was here.

I’ve been wanting to make some changes to this website. I would like to move away from blogger.com and host my own. I would also like to start integrating some of the cool APIs Netscape provides into the blog. Hopefully, I can start to do that in the next couple of months.

Resume

Rich — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:39:00 +0000

I’ve been working on updating my resume lately, so I decide to put a link to it on the site. The link is located in the right hand sidebar.

Blog Microsummary

Rich — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:26:00 +0000

One of the hot new features coming to Firefox 2.0 is microsummaries. I’ve put together a microsummary for this blog. So if you are using Firefox 2.0 (Bon Echo) or Firefox 3.0 (Minefield), you can can get my latest post in your bookmark. Just simple bookmark this page and in the dialog select the blog summary.

If you have already bookmarked this page, you can add the summary manually by clicking on this blog microsummary generator.

Digg Microsummary

Rich — Wed, 24 May 2006 20:37:00 +0000

One of the hot new features coming to Firefox 2.0 is microsummaries. Microsummaries are regularly-updated succinct compilations of the most important information on web pages. I decided to put together a sample microsummary for Digg.com.

This digg microsummary generator grabs the top story off the front page.

First install the generator, then bookmark Digg.com. In the bookmark properties dialog set the summary to “Digg Top Story”.