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I have a bunch of half-written things that I haven’t finished because I haven’t been happy with the state of cross-posting between this blog and Livejournal and I haven’t really had the time to deal with fixing it.

I’m cross-posting to make it easier for friends on LJ to read my blog entries. I find that using LJ to follow friends is a great feature; it’s what keeps me coming back to LJ.

It looks like I have it working now. I currently have it set up to cross-post everything. I’ll be writing a lot more technical articles in the near term, with some non-technical stuff mixed in. If you’d rather that I didn’t cross-post, or didn’t cross-post everything, let me know and I’ll see what I can figure out about limiting it.

I have cross-posting set up to require that comments be left here instead of on LJ. If you want to comment, you can use OpenID to login - instead of creating an account, just use the OpenID option on the account creation page. You can then authenticate yourself with Livejournal and not have another account to keep track of.
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Right now I have links to a few social sites that I use on the sidebar. These sites include Twitter, delicious.com, Google Reader (selected articles that I thought were interesting enough to share), and last.fm (music I’ve been listening to recently). At some point I’ll get UVFood and Flickr in there, too.

I like the idea of presenting my activity on these sites in the sidebar. It gives you an idea of what I’m up to, and helps make this blog a hub for my activity. At first I used various Wordpress plugins that were tailored to the particular sites. There were two problems with doing that. First, their formatting was all over the place. They used different heading tags, made assumptions about formatting, embedded their own formatting. They looked like a mess when taken together. The second problem was that they all loaded their info in real time, which meant it could take minutes to load a dot-dot-romkey page. No good at all.

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