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Friday, December 4th, 2009

Turn Your Blog into an OpenID

I’ve been visiting a lot of celebrity gossip blogs lately and once in a while I want to leave a comment.  I am so sick and tired of creating new user names and passwords on new sites all the time, and I really don’t want to use my Facebook or Myspace logins for OpenID. I’ve known about OpenID for years and never really paid much attention to it, but I decided to do a little research today to see what I could come up with.

My first stop was chi.mp where I created an account, netHideaway.mp. Chi.mp will allow you to import your Facebook, Twitter and Flickr content. You can  import your Facebook photo albums and chi.mp has a mini blog you can post to which has the option to add your post to to your Facebook or Twitter accounts. Chi.mp seems really cool but I already have too many irons in the fire and I don’t need another one.

I did some more research and found a great OpenID tutorial over at Simon Willison’s Weblog. I found out how to turn my website into my own OpenID in two easy steps:

1. Sign up with an OpenID provider

Some OpenID providers are LiveJournal, Vox, VeriSign Labs, MyOpenID, and chi.mp that I mentioned earlier. Other providers are listed at openid.net.

2. Point your website to your new OpenID

You do this by adding two simple lines of code into the <head> tag of the page you’ll be using. I chose MyOpenID as my provider and inserted the following code into the <head> tag of my website netHideaway.com:

<link rel=”openid.server” href=”http://www.myopenid.com/server”>
<link rel=”openid.delegate” href=”http://nethideaway.myopenid.com”>

To find out your server name just view the source page of your OpenId account. (In my case this is nethideaway.myopenid.com.)

Your delegate is the OpenID you received from your OpenID provider.

That’s all there is to it. Now I can log in as netHideaway on any web site where there is an option to use OpenID. If for any reason I decide I don’t trust my OpenID provider anymore I can always get a new one from a different provider and never have to change my login again. Yay!

If you need a more indepth explanation check out the OpenID tutorial I mentioned above.

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Monday, November 30th, 2009

Testing Twitter Tools

Okay, I tweaked the options a bit… Let’s see if it works this time… I’d also like to see if the URL is shortened… it is supposed to be… I wonder if this is at least 140 characters… I hope it is… blah blah blah… :)

Edit: Okay, it worked…  I’m not sure if I like the way it works… I wonder what will happen when I edit this post? Will it get tweeted again? let’s see…

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Monday, November 30th, 2009

Twitter Tools

I recently installed the new plugin Twitter Tools by Alex King. It is supposed to create a tweet whenever I post to this blog. So, this is a test to see how it is going to work out. If this plugin doens’t work there are dozens more I can try, but I’ve used Alex’s plugins before and they all worked the way they were supposed to with no problems.

Edit: It isn’t working. :(

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Thursday, November 26th, 2009

I guess I’m one of those rude bloggers

I really tried hard to upgrade my Wordpress installation from 2.1.2 to the current version but my database got corrupted somehow and I had to delete the whole blog. Luckily, I exported all my pages and posts before I attempted to upgrade.  I manually installed the latest version of Wordpress and imported my backed up data. Unfortunately, my pages and posts made the trip, but my links didn’t. :(

After not posting here for the last two years I’m sorry to say I don’t remember who I was linking to. If you check to see if your link is still here and it isn’t, that’s the reason. It really makes me sick to lose all of my blogrolls and link backs. I never even thought to take a screen shot before I started trying to upgrade.  Oh well, live and learn.

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Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The Hideaway – Social networking and chat for adults

Looking for a 24-hour house party on the web? The Hideaway (nethideaway.com) is a retro-style adult chat community providing guests and members with access to a broad collection of interactive online community services. This includes free personal home pages, free public and private chat rooms, free discussion forums, and other web publishing tools.

If you’re looking for an old-fashioned social networking community for adults I think you’ll really like the Hideaway. Some Hideaway members have opened their discussion forums to the community with such topics as entertainment, cooking, graphics help, drinks and drink recipes, general discussion, blues and music, eco-tourism, jokes and laughter, politics, relationships, books, sports and many others. This social networking site is still in early development and topics for open forums are only limited by our members’ imaginations.

If you are 18 years of age or older please drop by and say hello. To receive your free website which includes a discussion forum, guest book and private chat room all you have to do is create a handle at the Hideaway and post to the Support Board requesting your free “limited” membership. If you mention coupon code HECKOFIT when you post your request you will receive a free one-month Full Membership.

While the Hideaway is NOT a porn site, the Hideaway is a community which has been specifically designed for adults and as such some of the community pages may not be family friendly or safe for the workplace. Please be 18 or over if you decide to drop by and pay us a visit. We’d love to have you join us at the Hideaway, where community, contribution and collaboration is a way of life.

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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Link Exchanges and Rude Bloggers

I agreed to do a side bar link exchange with a mom reviews blog. I don’t see my link on their side bar anymore. I don’t mind them changing their mind but I think the courteous thing would be to let me know they were taking my link down so I could do the same.

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Thursday, November 15th, 2007

What Kind of Blogger are You?

I saw this little quiz over at Julie’s Journal so of course I had to take it too. Here are my results. Not a surprise there, I’m a purist because I totally hate ads on my blog. Every once in a while I get a wild hair and put up some ads but they annoy me so much I eventually remove them.

I got a MINUS 3 for sociability and it is so true! Haha, not much I can say about that.

Here is my result:

What Kind of Blogger Are You?

Greed: 0

You’re not in this for the money, for you blogging is all about the passion! Sure you might make a little pocket change now and again, but you know that it’s the content, the audience and the people that are what makes blogging great!

Experience: 2

You’ve been blogging since Nick Denton was in diapers. When it comes to blogging experience, you are the authority on blogging. Heck you probably even have a blog where you give advice about blogging!

Sociability: -3

Social media, other bloggers, networks and all that jazz don’t really interest you. You have enough friends in the real world, you don’t need more. You blog because you want to express yourself not to meet bloggers!

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Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Slapped by Google! Finally! *grin*

Whee… I was beginning to feel left out since so many popular and self-important bloggers have lost a little Google Page Ranking (John Chow, Darren Rouse, Shoemoney & Andy Beard to name a few)…

Every time I checked my PR with the Google Tool bar (you would think their own tool bar would be accurate!) it was holding steady at PR3, however today when I checked the average over several data centers it appears that I have dropped to PR2…

Oh, well… I say 2 is the new 3! People will just have to adjust their mindsets is what this really amounts to… *shrug*

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Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Gadget Girl Accessories

So I did a review on my geek blog for Loretta of Gadget Girl Accessories and I like her blog so much I think I’ll write about it here too. :)

I just read her entry titled Not your average heart shaped necklace and for some reason it made me chuckle. If that isn’t the perfect gift for the geek girl in your life then I don’t know what is.

I visit this blog a lot but I can see that I need to put Gadget Girl Accessories into my feed reader because I was just there and noticed that I missed out on a contest! Darn. I’m loading up my Google Reader right now – I’m not going to miss out on the latest gadgets anymore!

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Monday, August 27th, 2007

Computer and Video Game Equipment

Okay, here is my kind of luck. One week after I upgrade my PC I find out about CensusPC. I could have saved about $100.00 if I had purchased my upgrades from CensusPC instead of having the repair shop do the upgrade for me. Of course, I gladly payed for the repairman’s knowledge and expertise since I have no idea how to upgrade a PC.

All isn’t lost however, because there is always some new toy or piece of equipment just waiting to go home in my shopping cart. I’ve been thinking about holding a contest on this blog and I think one of these USB Flash Pen drives would make a really good prize.

I was looking around at some of the other items and noticed they have large selection of notebook AC/DC power adapters . Now, I’m not interested in that for myself but oddly enough my son mentioned that he needed a power adapter for his notebook the other night when we were out to dinner. He is also in the process of building his first computer so I’ll have to be sure to forward the website address of CensusPC to him.

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