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12.16.08
Happy Birthday?
Posted by: isquub
One advantage to this out-of-time posting thing is that I can post things on days that I'm sure to be competely unable to post things this way. Of course my chances of saying things that aren't wrong by nature of being guesses based on what's supposed to happen, as opposed to what really will happen, are maybe not that great.
So in case things go relatively according to plan: Happy 0th birthday, my new son!
So in case things go relatively according to plan: Happy 0th birthday, my new son!
12.09.08
Programming Note
To My Readers that use an RSS Feed:
You poor, poor people. This place is very much NOT intended for that. For one thing, I don't use those things and so test that even less than I test the general workingness of this place as a blog. For another, I've been lately playing with blogging in a different way than the one I'm used to. I'm posting things to the future regularly. The interface for doing this is just a little screwy. There is a field for changing the date and time at which the post will appear; this date/time fills in by default to the current date and time when I start a post. There is a second field for selecting whether to post in the future or to post immediately. This is bad interface design: when I change that date, it should automatically assume I want to post on the date I've indicated. In fact there is no need for this to be two different data items. If the date/time is going to default anyway, then the thing should just always post on the date that's in that field.
My point there is that I regularly change the date but don't select the radio button to post on that date, so that posts are posting immediately, then I see that that's happened and I edit the post to change when it appears. I assume that for RSS people this means posts occasionally showing up and then vanishing or something.
You poor, poor people. This place is very much NOT intended for that. For one thing, I don't use those things and so test that even less than I test the general workingness of this place as a blog. For another, I've been lately playing with blogging in a different way than the one I'm used to. I'm posting things to the future regularly. The interface for doing this is just a little screwy. There is a field for changing the date and time at which the post will appear; this date/time fills in by default to the current date and time when I start a post. There is a second field for selecting whether to post in the future or to post immediately. This is bad interface design: when I change that date, it should automatically assume I want to post on the date I've indicated. In fact there is no need for this to be two different data items. If the date/time is going to default anyway, then the thing should just always post on the date that's in that field.
My point there is that I regularly change the date but don't select the radio button to post on that date, so that posts are posting immediately, then I see that that's happened and I edit the post to change when it appears. I assume that for RSS people this means posts occasionally showing up and then vanishing or something.
