Code bloat
Not that I’m utterly miserable or anything, but I have spent the whole of this Christmas trying to shift a stubborn cold. I suspect I picked it up at the Woolworths sale. So I haven’t been a very conscientious blogger over the ‘festive’ period.
But I haven’t totally neglected the dangling modifier. I’ve been looking at how I might improve my blog in 2009. Thing is, one of my geek friends told me I needed to interact more with the ‘blogosphere’, so I thought – as this time of year’s so quiet and probably most people are too pissed to bother checking obscure, unknown blogs like mine – it would be a good opportunity to look into adding new features to the blog and making friends with other bloggers.
I started by looking at this fantastic article that my friend recommended:
27+1 Tips for Building and Maintaining a Blog Audience
Obviously I felt bad and inadequate when I read the bit about updating regularly, but then I reminded myself that you are all probably busy with your loved ones. Never mind, I thought, a new year’s resolution. I need one of those now that I finally have given up smoking, so it may as well be about blogging.
But I’m already getting stuck. The tips recommend stuff on tags and social bookmarking. I had to ask another geek about this. He said it should be “easy enough” to find a ‘plug- in’ on Wordpress. So I checked the plug-in page and it said:
“The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat.”
I’ve given up for now. I’m going to go and eat more mince pies and come back to it later.
