AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Woot!

I’m entering this from NetNewsWire, not simply a terrific RSS aggregator, but now also a very slick and handy blog editor. It took me a while to figure out how to make it work, but now I’m cooking with gas. (I keep forgetting to allow NNW to enter tags for me — but once I get used to using that capacity, I’ll be intensely spoiled.) My interest in figuring out the blog-editing capacities of NNW revived at Mena and Ben Trott’s visit to Seabury, which also began the groundswell of demand for a fuller, more basic introduction to TrackBack. A couple of days ago, they posted a beginner’s guide to TrackBack, an extremely helpful guide to implementing the protocol whose usefulness is only beginning to become clear.

My TrackBack hang-up isn’t covered in the beginners’ guide, however. I turned TrackBack on, but for some reason I’m not clever enough to figure out, MT doesn’t build TrackBack pages for me, so you’ll click in vain on my TrackBack links. 404 City, Baby, as Dick Vitale might say. I dont necessarily wwant to fix this; I think I’d rather have Trackbacks mixed in with comments in the way that Adam Kalsey’s SimpleComments plug-in permits. Maybe I’ll get around to this when Trevor and I move our blogs from Seabury’s server to our new home. Soon.

DRMA: "Steal Away" by Paul Robeson; "Black Crow" by Joni Mitchell; "Crazy Love" by Van Morrison; "Anchorage" by Michelle Shocked; "Cheepnis" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.