Strange but true.
Over the past week or so I've been preparing a (short) item on the PSP homebrew scene. It's been re-written a couple of times due to the speed that the scene is changing (hopefully more later on this).
Rather than swamping the blog with PSP related entries, I've been working on a draft version of the piece, and was planning on publishing it today.
Only one small problem - the article has vanished from my account. AAAAARGH!
So between my last edit yesterday lunchtime (which was just waiting for a list of homebrew games that run on unmodified PSPs) and me logging in this morning something has happened.
So, assuming that this blog entry doesn't vanish in a cloud of electrons - coincidence or censorship? If this entry vanishes then we'll know the answer.
Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Friday, 5 September 2008
Adding Yahoo Buzz to Blogger
You've probably noticed the natty "Buzz Up" button to the left of my posts. This is a vain attempt to encourage people to vote some of my stuff up on the new Yahoo Buzz service - which is sort of like Digg only newer and more funky.
If you'd like to add it to your Blogger template then follow these simple instructions:
1 - Edit the layout of your page
2 - Put a tick in the "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox
3 - Look for the following line in your template:
<p><data:post.body></p>
Replace it with this:
<p><table align='left'><tr><td><script type='text/javascript'>yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "<data:post.title/>";</script><script badgetype='square' src='http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js' type='text/javascript'><data:post.url/></script></td></tr></table><data:post.body/></p>
Preview your template, and if everything has worked correctly and you are happy with the look of the button then save it and feel the Buzz love!
This will fill in the title of your blog post as the title of the Buzz'd article too.
And if anyone feels like Buzzing Up this article just to prove that it all works It'd be appreciated!
If you'd like to add it to your Blogger template then follow these simple instructions:
1 - Edit the layout of your page
2 - Put a tick in the "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox
3 - Look for the following line in your template:
<p><data:post.body></p>
Replace it with this:
<p><table align='left'><tr><td><script type='text/javascript'>yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "<data:post.title/>";</script><script badgetype='square' src='http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js' type='text/javascript'><data:post.url/></script></td></tr></table><data:post.body/></p>
Preview your template, and if everything has worked correctly and you are happy with the look of the button then save it and feel the Buzz love!
This will fill in the title of your blog post as the title of the Buzz'd article too.
And if anyone feels like Buzzing Up this article just to prove that it all works It'd be appreciated!
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Keyword Frenzy
Hello.
You may be wondering about the large number of keywords for this post.
Well, there is a reason for that.
I'm trying to see if more keywords means more hits to this entry. Usually I'm fairly frugal about how many labels I add to each post, so I'm curious to see if that strategy is a good one or not.
It is worth noting that the most labels you can have is 20.
The results, as usual, will follow.
P.S. - While you are here why not have a look around - maybe you'll find something you like?
You may be wondering about the large number of keywords for this post.
Well, there is a reason for that.
I'm trying to see if more keywords means more hits to this entry. Usually I'm fairly frugal about how many labels I add to each post, so I'm curious to see if that strategy is a good one or not.
It is worth noting that the most labels you can have is 20.
The results, as usual, will follow.
P.S. - While you are here why not have a look around - maybe you'll find something you like?
Saturday, 8 March 2008
Blogger / Blog*Spot Blues
I'm guessing that you probably heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth that accompanied todays unscheduled Blogger meltdown.
If you check out the Blogger help forum it was full of very annoyed bloggers who were unable to access their blogs or administration areas.
Now, things like this can (and do) happen on any system, and shouting at the people trying to fix it does not help resolve things. One thing that I feel would have helped would have been an official announcement made sooner and in a visible place, such as on the front page of the Blogger dashboard. This would have prevented the firestorm of complaints that followed.
Blogger is a free service (and a good one too) so let's not blow a couple of hours of downtime out of proportion, and give the good folks at Google a chance to resolve things properly.
Friday, 7 March 2008
Blogger Tip #1: Hiding pages from the archive
Sometimes it can be useful to have a page on the blog but not necessarily listed amongst your blog archives.
A good example of this would be a links page. If you look to the left of our site, under the picture of yours truly you'll see a link titled "Blogs of Interest". This links through to this page:
http://half-a-page.blogspot.com/1970/01/links.html
As you can see from the date part of the page it claims to have been written in 1970. But if you look at the sidebar you'll see no posts older than September 2007, which was when this blog was started.
So how do you achieve this? Simple. Whilst creating the post, click on "Post Options" and set the "Post date and time" to some time in 1970. Presumably blogger recognises that posts this early are impossible and so doesn't show them in the archive list, but does allow you to view the pages if you link directly to them.
A good example of this would be a links page. If you look to the left of our site, under the picture of yours truly you'll see a link titled "Blogs of Interest". This links through to this page:
http://half-a-page.blogspot.com/1970/01/links.html
As you can see from the date part of the page it claims to have been written in 1970. But if you look at the sidebar you'll see no posts older than September 2007, which was when this blog was started.
So how do you achieve this? Simple. Whilst creating the post, click on "Post Options" and set the "Post date and time" to some time in 1970. Presumably blogger recognises that posts this early are impossible and so doesn't show them in the archive list, but does allow you to view the pages if you link directly to them.
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