Pie Palace

Observent readers of Blogawa will notice that I’ve added El Maks (of swapbox fame) to Blogawa. El Maks, (no relation to the awesomeness of Maki), is, well, awesome.

As always, suggestions for new blogs can be made to erigami@piepalace.ca.

I’m back. My wrists aren’t 100%, but they’re much better than they were. To prove it, I’ve squeezed another feature into Blogawa: events. Our friendly events robot reads OttawaEvents.org daily, randomly picks some upcoming events, and posts them to Blogawa.

The events are currently jumbled together, regardless of category, but that may change with time.

I’ve always liked the idea of open source bounties. I want open source coders to be able to make money on what they do, so I like the idea of users banding together to pay for a feature. The only drawback is that I’ve never actually seen a bounty collected. As an experiment, I’ve picked a worthy project, and I’ll be matching donations to it that (a) link back to this post, and (b) total no more than €60, (c) comment here. So hit Cofundos and take my money! (Yes, I’m avoiding typing. But this is a minipost, so it doesn’t count.) UPDATE: I’d like to make clear that I’m only offering €60 in total, and that’s matching on any single donation made after the original date of this post (April 14, 9:00am-ish, EST). I also added (c) above, so that I don’t have to check the cofundos site.

The Slaughter Daughters (née Bytowne Blackhearts) have joined Blogawa. Welcome aboard ladies.

And what do you mean there isn’t a league game until May 30? Awww…

Phew. The upgrade worked. I’ve redirected the old feed URL to the new URL, and everything should be smurfy on Blogawa itself.

Of note:

• Comment links should now work (thanks MG).
• We’re now displaying 25 posts/page (thanks RG).
• Updates should occur much more often now. If I’m hitting your blog too often, let me know.
• If you’re an author, and you want your gravatar to show up, email erigami@piepalace.ca and let me know.

As far as I know, all of the feeds imported properly. Let me know if there’s anything amiss.

Blogawa will be down briefly for the reskinning. Stay tuned… (I have the power. But do I have the grace?)

As alluded to last week, Blogawa is undergoing a reskinning. The new site will be pretty much the same in terms of functionality, except that it should look a bit nicer. The only major change will be the use of Gravatars to provide avatars for authors.

The URL for the RSS feed will change. I should be able to set up a forward to send your RSS reader to the appropriate place, but I may not. So if you find that your feed reader breaks, come back to blogawa and resubscribe.

Aaaany day now…

Woohoo! My first hate mail!

So you think Asperger’s syndrome is some sort of fucking joke for you and your jackass nerd idiot friends?

What do you have that we can make fun of? Impotence? A huge ass?

Feel free to mock: my insouciance, my wacky political beliefs, my gadget addiction, not owning a car, the amount of time I spend in front of a computer, the amount of time it takes me to answer my email, etc.

This love-in brought to you by the Pie Palace AQ Test.

Blogawa is ugly. Ugly, ugly, ugly. So I’m redesigning the look. As part of the redesign, I’m putting together a wordmark that will be shown on the mast head. Here are some of the possibilities:

(The source HTML is available as well)

What are your thoughts? Suggestions? Constructive criticism?

Have you ever wished, fellow blogger, that you had a way to tell your readers when you comment on somebody else’s blog? I have. Whenever I comment on dubroy.com (for example), I’d like my blog to show that I did that.

I’ve put together the Elsewhere plugin to do that magic. When you comment on a blog with Elsewhere installed, that blog will ping the URL you entered in the ‘Website’ field on the comment form. If that website has Elsewhere installed, a link to your comment will be displayed in your sidebar.