A reading from the iBook

My 12″ iBook G3 has gone the way of all laptop flesh bearing self-destructing logic boards. Let’s lower our eyes and say a few words of remembrance.

A Reading from the Holy Book of Monty Python, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 19

Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem.

16. And Saint Wozniak raised the iBook up on high, saying, ‘O Lord, bless this Thy G4 that, with it, Thou mayest let thy people gallivant about the internet in Thy mercy without fear of the horizontal rainbow lines.’

17. And the Lord did grin, and the people did check stats and their feeds and carp about the price of gas in various forums and realize that the number of weeks of data lost were three-and-a-half.

18. Not four, because they did obey the Lord and back up, but three-and-a-half, because they were wicked and did not back up as frequently as the Lord demanded and thus deserved their most unnecessary loss.

19. And because they did repent of their wickedness, they refused to pay the $99 transfer data fee to the Genius Bar but decided instead to upgrade to a 14-inch with a Super Drive.

Amen.

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To sum up…

The most embarrassing thing I learned whilst cleaning up my site this weekend: every time you update a post, the RSS feed at Bloglines shows it as another post. Yowza.

Thought I was being smart, adding “Done!” to my To Do lists! My apologies to my two (count ’em, TWO!) subscribers.

The fun thing I learned this weekend: when you subscribe to a feed, you can see how many people have also subscribed. At the time of this posting, Bloglines shows

…and so on.

I also learned how one can keep her subscribed feeds private, so other readers snooping about amongst the public blogrolls can’t discover her secret vice.

Big Ole’ Blog Clean Up

Today is Fix Up Everything You’ve Been Letting Slide Day.

So if what you’re looking at suddenly goes all screwy, you know why.

On My To Do List:

  1. Add links I’ve been meaning to for some while. I’ve also been wondering if I should do a links page. What’s been stopping me? The idea that in the blogosphere, links in a link page might contain less value than links in a sidebar. Is it true or just a myth? Film at 11.

    DONE. More or less, until the next time.

  2. Update my post and link categories
  3. Create a favicon, as described on ProBlogger. It looks easy enough, but… well… I have plenty of problems with the easiest of things, so we’ll see.

    DONE. No, wait! Eh, I guess I’ll be playing with this for a while.

  4. Move everything from www.bonniewren.com/more to www.bonniewren.com. I’ve been putting this one off because it’s scary. Scary in the “how to” department, and scary in the “Changing my whole way of doing things forever” department.

    I’ve been hemming and hawing about it so long that my ample derriere is permanently imprinted with chain-link. If I haven’t moved the site by Monday morning, you’ll know I chickened out and climbed back up on the fence.

    DONE. I hope my redirects are working. And I hope any readers who get an error message will be kind enough to tell me about it!

  5. Move the old, static site and update it in a way to let people know it still works, but give them a link to the new, dynamic site.

    DONE. Again, I hope I haven’t missed anything.

Fried Logic Boards and Wishful Thinking

I own a dual USB iBook G3/900 that tends to fry logic boards as efficiently as McDonald’s fries taters.

I bought my iBook back in February 2004. The logic board died in November, and Apple replaced it. That logic board died in February, and Apple replaced it. The third logic board died in May and Apple replaced it AGAIN. If I were a logic board on a shelf at Apple and saw a DHL box coming at me with a mailing label made out to Bonnie Wren, I think I’d have a nervous breakdown.

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WP-Linknotes: Flashback to Research Paper-Writing Days

The Nuclear Moose asked the Universe for a plugin:

Think of it as a blogging footnote, or more appropriately, a linknote. What the quicktag could also do is add a superscript number beside the word or phrase you hyperlink, so that the reader would know that you have added a footnote (linknote?) which the reader can refer to after consuming the whole post.

And lo, the Universe served up one Jeremy Curry, who created the plugin WP-Linknotes. Moose tried it, and said It Was Good.

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WordPress Plugins I Use

I’ve got several uploaded to my Plugins Folder, but only use these (so far):

And here’s a list of Those Plugins I Covet But Lack the Time/Real Need/Brain Power/Motivation to Add to My Lineup: