The Rodeo

30 Days of writing: Day 10

OK, so I’m now thirty-three point three (repeated) percent of the way towards completing my goal, so I’m doing alright so far.

Tonight I’m mainly going to talk about some technical changes I’m planning on making to this blog. It will be an evolution of sorts (by evolution, I mean gradual changes over time, rather than throw the site in a bag and leave it for a long time until it magically turns itself into a sentient being capable of self-analysis, although that would be cool (if improbable\possible) too).

So the plan for the next few updates:
- Update the graphics. Currently I am using the theme chinared, but I am planning on changing the graphics and making the whole thing a bit more like myself (that is: beautiful, chaotic and exciting!) .
- Update the RSS feed* to use the well formed web namespace elements allowing my RSS feed to include comment feeds attached to each item. This is really groovy, and the RSS aggregator I use (SharpReader), will attach a comment list to each post with comments. Even though there aren’t too many people reading and commenting, this at least makes it cool .DONE (plus I added a comment count)
- I plan on removing the two other RSS feeds I don’t really want (Atom and RSS 1.0), as they just add more complexity and every feed aggregator I know of will deal with any of them. This is mostly just a neatening aspect (I might leave them around, but I’ll remove any reference to them from the code etc).DONE
- I plan on adding a tag-based category system, so each post will have many descriptive meta-tags attached to them, allowing searching by ad-hoc categories. Ultimately I’d like to make this into a funky AJAX search mechanism, but that’s probably a little bit further into the future .

That’s about it for tonight. Maybe something actually interesting tomorrow.

*RSS is basically a REALLY REALLY cool internet thing that lets you not bother about checking a site (or blog) for updates. Your computer checks for you and lets you know when something new turns up. I can’t imagine using the net without it, it’d just be so… slow…. However, the site needs to provide the RSS feed for your computer to grab. Any blogging software should do it automagically, and if it doesn’t, bug the people who made it to include it.

-RodeoClown

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