The Mandelbear's Musings

I've made my decision: Most of my posts will start out posted on mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, and be automatically crossposted from there to mdlbear.livejournal.com. If LJ is flaky, I'll get them transfered as soon as I can.

The exceptions will be fluff like birthday posts, LJ's "writer's block" (which I do occasionally), and other memes, which will originate on LJ and get pulled back to DW somewhere between weekly and every couple of months. Weekly if I can figure out how to automate the import process.

I may stop doing the birthday posts altogether except on rare occasions; I seem to resent the time even though it's not very much. Possibly because it registers in my tiny bear-like brain as a break in my morning routine, coming well before the caffeine has hit. Let me know what you think about that.

I still want to have a "blog" on my main website, but that's still in the future. I have "blog" in quotes because it will just be for my longer articles and series like The River and Adventures in Family Computing.

I set up a couple of instances of the Planet feed aggregator at work this afternoon -- one for the lab's various internal blogs, and one for many of the other blogs I read daily. It's basically a single Python script (which you run as a cron job) plus a handful of templates. I'll probably set one up at home, too.

Yes, I could undoubtedly add all the feeds to my LJ friends list -- at least at home. Using Planet would just be a way of separating the feeds, most of which are tech-related, from the LJ's, most of which are social. It makes a lot more sense at work, where the blogs I'm aggregating are all internal and where there are several people who'd probably like to share them.