I have added some new gadgets and features to my boring blog. Hope it is a little less boring and that you (all 10 or so of you that follow it) find the new features useful.
(If you haven't already figured it out by now, basically, I was really bored on a Sunday afternoon. Who knows, I might even get adventurous and radically change the color scheme and background images.)
Actually, I just needed an excuse to include a picture of A Pimp Named Slickback from Aaron McGruder's excellent Boondocks cartoon in my blog. I understand that by admitting I am a Boondocks fan, there is an outstanding chance that I will be labeled a Socialist, or whatever term Conservatives are calling Liberals these days. Have they advanced to using the term Communist yet? Or is that being reserved for the big push in 2012?)
- I've started labeling my posts with keywords so that you can use the Labels gadget on the right side of the page to search only posts that apply to certain labels. So, for example, clicking on growing up link in the Labels cloud would list the posts about my experiences growing up in Altoona.
- Related to this, at the end of each post, you will see a You Might Also Like... section that lists other posts that have the same labels as the post you are reading.
- I have integrated a Facebook Like gadget that allows you to register your approval of a particular post - just like on Facebook.
- On the right hand side of the page, there is now a Recent Posts list.
- After each post, there are a set of Share Buttons that allow you to send one of my blogs posts to a variety of targets. For example, there are buttons for emailing a blog post or for posting a blog post to your Facebook Profile. There are some other Share Buttons for sharing my posts to Google Buzz and Twitter.
- Check out that digital signature - talk about eye-candy! Obviously that isn't my handwriting since it is legible.
