It’s where I post a lot of links, videos, reblogs and blog comments for other sites.
It’s called Dave’s Whiteboard and located here: http://daveswhiteboard.tumblr.com/
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My poor tumblr blog…
I’m going to be posting short link posts to my old tumblr blog. I like putting images in my posts, but short link posts makes that very difficult. Even this post would be short, but I’m making it longer so that it fits my format.
I really just want to start using that poor tumblr blog I have had for years. I rarely put things in there and I do find a lot of things on the web as I read my feeds that I would like to share with the world.
So far so good…
So far the transition to WordPress.com has gone better than expected. The DNS transfers went very smoothly. WordPress.com and Google both have very good documentation on doing the transfer so that if you know even a little about computers, you can probably make the transition with no problems.
I have also been pleasantly surprised that search links to the site, even though they point to addresses like: http://metzener.com/davemblog/2010/06/08/weblog-kind-of-quiet-here/ when the user clicks on that link in Google or another search engine, WordPress.com figures out what page its supposed to go to and takes the user to the correct URL: http://metzener.com/2010/06/08/weblog-kind-of-quiet-here/.
I was really worried that since the site is hosted at WordPress.com, the fact that my self-hosted site used a subdirectory /davemblog/ that when folks clicked on links, they would be taken to 404 pages. This is great that they are not.
So for a mere $10 a year, you can have WordPress.com host a blog with your domain name and you can even use Google for email. So I have gone from just under $200 a year to just under $10 a year.
There is one drawback to using WordPress.com. They don’t support MarkDown in posts. I have quite a few articles that use MarkDown (links look like this: [Google](http://www.google.com/) ). As I find those posts, I’ll go in and correct them so that the links work as they should. If you come across such a link, just select the URL text and past that into a new browser tab for now. I’ll be fixing them shortly.
Welcome to the WordPress.com hosted site!
If you are reading this, the transfers have been successful and all is well.
I’m writing this before the starting the process so when the process is finished, I’ll write up a short article on how it went and just how easy it really is or isn’t.
Weblog kind of quiet here…
Actually, I’ve been busy posting articles on a podcast site called: MyAppleAnd.Me. A friend, Stephen Hargrove and myself, host a weekly podcast about all things Apple. It’s not much, but its fun to do.
So, whenever I find a piece of news about Apple, it goes over there which is why you haven’t seen much here lately. I hate cross-posting and so I favor the podcast over this site. Don’t leave this site though, I’ll still post stuff that isn’t Apple related. I just won’t be posting as often as I had been.
So if you want to keep up with stuff I might have talked about here, add MyAppleAnd.Me to your subscriptions.
Started a Podcast: My Apple and Me
So a friend and I have started a new podcast called My Apple and Me. It’s basically just Steve and I shooting the breeze about Apple news and applications. We have actually been recording for a couple of months now, but we think we finally have a couple of good shows and decided it was time to publicize it.
My Apple and Me is a weekly show (mostly, there might be a break in that schedule on occasion) with Steve Hargrove and myself. We try to keep in around 30 minutes long and typically talk about Apple news and applications that we like both Desktop and iPhone/iPod touch apps.
It’s no “This Week In Tech”, but it’s not bad. The main idea is that we have fun recording it and hope that others have fun listening to it.
If you like it too, please post comments on the site. We would love to hear from our listeners and any suggestions will more than likely be taken.
Posterous Blog
For a while now, I have been posting to a Posterous blog called “Dave Metzener’s Posterous” (yeah, I know, not very original) as well as this one. I use the Posterous blog for things I find that I just want to make a short comment on or highlight for others to see too.
I have 25 posts out there now, and more come at a rate of about 5-10 a week. Basically, when I find something that catches my eye, I want to comment on but the blog that posted the article doesn’t take comments, I want to remember for later, or is just downright interesting, I’ll post it there instead of my main blog.
This way, I can post about more things without having to bother finding artwork (I know I don’t have to, but I like posting artwork per post on this blog), or really doing much of any research.
Think of it as a glorified links blog for this site.
This Weblog Is Switching To Feedburner For It's RSS Feeds
I’ve decided to take the plunge and use Feedburner.com for my RSS feeds instead of what WordPress creates. No huge deal, and I suspect that there are not that many people out there that are actually subscribed to my feeds. If you are, this is a note to let you know that you should probably re-subscribe to them. I suspect the old WordPress feeds will stop updating now.
I’m making this change mostly for the statistics and also to support a great service.
Thanks for hanging in there with me and I hope I’ve been helpful in some way to you in my writings.
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