Category Archives: Blog
Rebooting the blog
After letting it languish for well over a year, I’ve decided to return to the blog. I’ve realized that my life is marked by consumption. I’m subscribed to hundreds of blogs, I listen to audio books, I watch movies and videos online – but it’s all passive. There’s no synthesis. There’s no creation.
I know that [...]
Books are back
I finally got my Currently Reading and Currently Listening widgets going again (fed by LibraryThing). They’ve been off since I upgraded my theme a while ago.
Blog Upgrade and Feedburner
I upgraded my blog software to the latest and greatest version of WordPress and switched my feeds over to FeedBurner. I’ve been curious how many people exactly track the feeds and with FeedBurner I’ll know.
I’m going to try to post more often what with the house-building coming up so that people are more aware of [...]
I’m not dead yet…
…and I can’t even claim to have been sick. No, just busy with lots of stuff and never really finding the time to blog – but I’m gonna try to make up for it.
Subscribing to your own RSS feed
I’m curious if anyone else out there subscribes to their own RSS feed. I’ve done it for as long as I’ve had a blog and an aggregator. It just plain makes sense to me. At first Amber thought it was odd, but I think that she’s come around to my way of thinking now.
It just [...]
“Welcome, to the real world”
Yes, this is the new home of the Vanderbrew blog powered by Wordpress 2.0. The biggest changes from Blogger are a little different design, better LibraryThing tie in (really, I’ll be better about keeping what I’m reading up-to-date), and Categories.
I’m really excited about the categories because now I can throw stuff up here w/out having [...]