Blogosphere

I usually use MarsEdit for posting to this and other blogs, but that means I always have to log into the web GUI and manually tell the Drupal Twitter module to send a notice of a new post.

After digging around for a short bit, I discovered that I might be able to automagically do this with Drupal Triggers.

This post is a test of that functionality while posting via the web GUI.

Thank you for reading this non-emergency broadcast test.

For everyone who, like me, got excited that I was actually posting... Okay, for those few who read my recent postings and finally got interested, I am in the process of packing up my farm and moving almost 900 miles. This process will be complete in the first week of June.

So, you haven't heard from me in a while. Again. Please don't act surprised. We know you'd just be faking to make me feel better.

In his personal blog, Seth Godin writes a short piece about two very different types of blogs.

Okay, so a LOPSA colleague of mine,William Bilancio, had some suggestions about improving the interoperability of my blog to encourage other people to use the site interactively, like leaving comments. I followed his advice and went a step further. I enabled OpenID in Drupal as a start. People can now use any valid OpenID account they have to authenticate to my blog.

So, I'm catching up on neglected blog feeds while taking a break from heavy labor on the farm (for those who don't know: I have a small farm in rural Wisconsin, USA) while I sip coffee and contemplate whether I should really come up with a solid blogging strategy.

For a while now I've been observing and partaking in networking. Yes, of course computer based networks, but lately I've been thinking (and working) on human networking. It's been around far longer than computer systems, and most professions are much better at it than IT folks.

So, I just performed a Drupal 6.4 to 6.6 upgrade, and it not only took a very short amount of time (about 20 minutes start to finish), it worked flawlessly!
I've been a fan of Drupal ever since we launched the LOPSA site in 2005, but the latest incarnation is really well done software.

So, in the spirit of building the habit of posting, even if it isn't the long, thoughtful, well-researched pieces I so much love to read, as I said in my last post, I bring my stream of consciousness blog entry today.

So, apparently I have to rethink not whether I want to blog, because I think I made that mostly clear in the last post, but I have to rethink my process.

I thought about why I almost never post to this blog.