It's alive!

My WordPress blog is officially in business. Change your bookmarks, or links, or bloglines subscriptions or whatever (to my surprise, bloglines tells me that 21 people supposedly have subscriptions to this thing--go me!) Actually, wait a second, I don't have an RSS feed going yet, so no changing bloglines subscriptions. Oh well, I'll get that done tomorrow. When I do, I'll announce it there, not here, so try to check it manually until then.

New website!

Just in case anyone is still reading this blog, I have a new website at uncrediblehallq.net. Now, mind you all that's there right now is a notice that the site is under development, but it's a start. The tools I'm using are less user-friendly than blogger, making me glad I waited until after finals to do this, but now I've got all day and with any luck will have my first post up by tonight.

Update 2:13: uncrediblehallq.net/blog/ Now contains the standard WordPress header, with a sub-header announcing it to be "Just another WordPress blog," and a no-body post titled "Hello world!"

Finnals and getting off blogger

It's that time of the semester again, finals are coming up and I need the time to study. Thus, I don't plan on doing more that a couple more posts over the next two weeks. After that, however, I'll have a ton of free time and I've decided it's finally time to get off blogger, get my own domain name, and develop my own site design. Stay tuned.

OpenID

I'm following Richard's lead and switching my comment system to OpenID. It's a compromise between having pesky, unsigned anonymous comments and only letting blogger people comment. OpenID lets you comment as long as you have an account with one of several different systems.

Maximizing atheist reciprocity in the blogosphere

A post by Vjack, which I'm only linking now because I didn't want to do so until I had the time to do as he said: finally registering for Reddit and Stumble, mainly. I'm going to try to be better about this now...

(P. S.: this is a really, really important post. Read it. Do as he says.)

Finals blog slump

Okay, 'tis finals week, I managed to crack off some blogging Sunday night, but won't be able to again for another three or four or five days. It's not like I've died, so check back then.

New and Improved Philosophy Blogroll!

Well, not all that new and all that improved, but I recently finished an extended process of pruning dead blogs, and I've been gradually adding new ones as well. So, if you haven't added the philosophy blogroll to your site, now would be a good time to do it!

Technorati, Digg, Google

Does anybody use Technorati anymore? For awhile it was like The big thing, but now, I get no hits at all off my Technorati tags, and it can't be a pure problem of not getting anything from search engines because Google is responsible for a substantial portion of my hits.

On a related note, how on earth do I set up a "submit to Digg" button system on my blog? Or is that useless now too?

Good news and bad news

The good news is that I think I've sorted out all the issues with the philosophy blogroll (rather than make a new post, I just re-did the old one). The bad news is that in the process of trying to test the code, I accidentally deleted my old template. Oh well, I figure, it was getting stale anyway. My next blogging activity will likely center around trying to get this new template in shape, be warned though.

Announcing the philosophy blogroll!

UPDATE: I think it all should work now...

Taking my cue from Mojoey, I've decided to set up a Philosopher's Blogroll, which I hope will become a comprehensive directory of all active philosophy blogs on the internet. In its current form, I tried to include every currently active blog that has at some time hosted an edition of the Philosopher's Carnival, as well as every active blog on David Chalmers' list but I'm intend to add any blog I find that deals with philosophy at least occasionally, or any blog of that description who's owner drops me an e-mail. Just like Mojoey, I ask that if you send me an e-mail asking to be added, you should also add the blogroll to your blog in one of the three possible forms: full, rolling, and marquee. At the very least, please post a link back to this post so other people can find the thing. I'm going to use the full version here because this is the host site, but you may want to use other formats at your site. The "recently updated" code gives you only the 25 most recently updated blogs, which is nice if you care about recentness of posts. I did let a fair number blogs in that are only occasionally updated, that's the main reason for it, though I still plan to remove anything I find that's been dormant for a month or more. Also, the scrolling version is an easy way to be taken to random blogs on the list. Enjoy!

Regular:
<a href="http://uncrediblehallq.blogspot.com/2007/08/announcing-philosophy-blogroll.html"> <img border="0" alt="Join the best philosophy themed blogroll!" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8DFN26dUvH8/RrkcD7fhFNI/AAAAAAAAABM/61QuF7vNe2U/s320/Blogroll.bmp"/></a>
<script language="javascript" src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?r=023c4ad9149d7ac043c967254fdd336e" type="text/javascript"></script>

Recently updated:
<a href="http://uncrediblehallq.blogspot.com/2007/08/announcing-philosophy-blogroll.html"> <img border="0" alt="Join the best philosophy themed blogroll!" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8DFN26dUvH8/RrkcD7fhFNI/AAAAAAAAABM/61QuF7vNe2U/s320/Blogroll.bmp"/></a>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?r=7d293adfc52326b141a7d02aba3e176e"></script>

Scrolling:
<a href="http://uncrediblehallq.blogspot.com/2007/08/announcing-philosophy-blogroll.html">
<img border="0" alt="Join the best philosophy themed blogroll!" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8DFN26dUvH8/RrkcD7fhFNI/AAAAAAAAABM/61QuF7vNe2U/s320/Blogroll.bmp"/>
</a>
<marquee width="180" height="250" direction="up" scrolldelay="1" scrollamount="1" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout=" this.start()">
<script language="javascript" src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?r=023c4ad9149d7ac043c967254fdd336e" type="text/javascript">
</script>
</marquee>

Please report any problems in e-mail or comments thread.

Finally, I would like to give a *huge* thanks to Mojoey for the idea and responses to my repeated queries trying to figure out how to pull it off. Couldn't have done it without you, many.

Picture upload

The purpose of this post will become clear momentarily.

Technical difficulties

For some reason, the text of my review of Sam Harris' latest book isn't publishing on the index page, but is published for the page specific to that post. There's a slim chance this post will solve the problem by forcing the index to republish.