fiona was here
wishing she had a clever tagline

I would have this sorted only I have to do some coding myself. And I don't really know what I'm doing. But that's fine; I'll just feel all the prouder when I figure it out.

Here in Fionica we value the input of others. Because what are other people for other than telling you what they think? I might as well simply talk to myself (which is, as I've noted before, something I try to avoid in public). A friend pointed out to me that in order to comment on my blog you have to register in German. Which seems like a lot to ask of anyone and if I'd realised sooner I would have remedied the problem. But I know now and I made it all better. Well, I'm working on it anyway.

If I manually ping Technorati, it indexes my tags properly. So I'd like to recant my previous slanderous claims of an imperfectly functioning system which have been proven wrong by all these people looking for "schiavo" who were presented with the correct entry by Technorati. It's even picked up "jackass" and indexed it properly now.
tags des Technorati: technorati, tagging, metatagging, wrong, apologies

I thought Technorati's notion of embedding linked tags in blog entries was pretty clever. Problem is: it indexes the tags to the wrong entries, at least on my blog. For instance: my last entry, tagged "Schiavo" doesn't come up. However, the previous entry, which had nothing to do with Terry Schiavo at all and bears the tags attention and jackasses, is returned by Technorati for the Schiavo tag. I always find it tragic when something I thought was clever fails in the execution.
hope springs eternal: technorati, tagging, metatagging, failure

When I first started playing with this blog I found a feature that allowed me to reset the language. Only it wouldn't stay reset to "Englisch" and only some things would get translated. Now that I speak German (OK, not really.) I managed to reset the language and this time hit "sichern", which we now all know means save, instead of "abbrechen". which means cancel. It might have taken months before it occurred to me to try this if some random person named Michi hadn't stopped by. I love it when random people fix my problems. And now mostly everything's in English. Which means I need a different tagline.

So things look better now but they're still not behaving. For some reason my post from the seventeenth won't show up on the main page, although it appears in the RSS feed. Whereas my post from the 18th does not show up in the feed but appears on my main page. I'm convinced if I show it some love by continuing to play with it, it will want to behave properly.

And my new entries seem unwilling to show up on my main page.

I keep thinking there must be somewhere else where I can get what I want and there isn't. I have blogs all over the internet and nobody will let me do the stuff I want to: these people won't let me touch the html, those people lured me in with a free trial and in thirty days I will be unable to do any of the things I want, the jerks over there had some issue that I no longer remember, my young friends here showed much promise but proved to be too far bogged in beta to be of any real use yet. So it's back to learning German.

After having creating several different blogs for myself with some seemingly likely hosts, I have been forced to return here. "What do I want?" I hear the screaming horde asking. Well:

1. the ability to upload files
2. posting by category (and preferably secondary category options) (Ideally, I'd like to be able to create a hierarchical classification scheme for my posts like frassle but as I'm unwilling to expend any money at all ever that seems a trifle ambitious.)
3. full unrestricted permission to play with my templates
4. a "save as draft" option
5. little or no advertising (unless its Google "targeted advertising")

Will twoday.net offer me what I want? I don't know yet because it's all still in German. I am investigating whilst I learn a new language. Thus far:
abbrechen = cancel
veroffentlichen = post
offline speichern = save offline (save as draft)

My beloved former blog and all it's clever witty posts are being held for a ransom of $35 dollars which I refuse to pay. So I have decided to start over.

I don't speak German though. Which is proving to be a problem, my new blog host being, it would seem, German and everything, therefore, being written in a language I don't speak. Thank god for Google translation. I will either give up on this and find another blog host elsewhere or I will learn all the words related to weblogs in German.