All bloggers do it once in a while
All bloggers do it at least once in their blogging career. It's remains pretty faux pas in my opinion, but here I am anyway. You know what I'm talking about, don't you? It's the blog post that only exists to…
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Brainstorming Richmond community improvement ideas
Every time I go on vacation or get a little bit of time to step back and think, I end up making long "to do" lists for myself. The lists are about projects I want to start, books to read,…
Links, and what I'm thinking about
I haven't had the chance to blog lately, but here are some bits and pieces to chew on. First, some links: Friday's episode of On the Media was excellent as usual, but did an especially good job of covering the…
Undo
You may have noticed that I was playing around with the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress, and that it was generating these weekly digests of my Twitter posts on Fridays. I'm not going to do that anymore, but you can…
Index of my signature blog posts
One of the weird things about blogs is that, as much time as people put into creating interesting and useful content for them, it's rare that anyone goes to the trouble to read back through older entries unless they're really…
Updated chrishardie.com home page
Those of you who follow my blog may not always bother to check in on the other parts of my personal website, which is understandable since they're much more static than the weblog. I do try to use the actual…
A few new blog interaction features
I've upgraded the WordPress software powering this blog to a more recent version, and added a few more ways to interact with my posts at the same time: I'm now using Gravatars - "globally recognized avatars" - to display user-uploaded…
Congratulations on having your first diary rescued
There is a strange and unique destination out there in the political blogosphere called The Daily Kos. You may have heard of it - it's been called everything from one of the most defining websites of the modern political debate,…
Tags, you're it
I'm a nut about organizing stuff just so, and making sure bits of information are connected, interrelated, categorized, and labeled just right. The "categories" I've heretofore been using for this blog were ample for my initial purposes, but as I…
New look for the ole' bloggity blog
Hopefully this is a change for the better. Let me know what you think. The image at the top is a stylized version of a photo of me. I'm standing in a fast-moving river, creating a disturbance and sloshing around…