It's News to Me

As you can tell from the previous post, the test failed.  The source code in the blog editor shows the src accurately, but for some reason something in the process of publishing to WordPress.com strips away the information on the source.  I've tried going into the editor in WordPress and manually adding it back and changing the information from img alt to img title, but that doesn't help either.  Still WordPress seems to be removing that information for some reason. 

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This test is to see whether I can drag a photo from my Flickr photostream and have it show up when I publish my blog.

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This morning I took this screenshot of Fock's Newspaper (i.e., its RSS news reader) illustrating how it looks when the feeds have been updated.

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The lastest version of Flock, soon to be released in beta and codenamed "Cardinal," has improved the way RSS feeds are handled. The feed reader in Flock is called My Newspaper, and it is represented by an icon in the icon bar that looks like a newspaper (what else?) and is positioned just to the left of the icon for starring a favorite (which, in Flock's terminology, equates to marking a site as a favorite).

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On occasion I have been one of the resources to which a friend has turned for help with his computer questions and issues. Last night I received an email from him asking my advice once again. His son, whom we'll call Ben, enters a large midwestern university this fall as a freshman, and he needs a laptop. My friend, whom I'll call Bob, wants advice about what things he needs to consider when making the purchase of a laptop for Ben's college work.

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I saw this comment (#7) over on Mike Neel's blog this morning and decided I'd better post something here on my blog before such comments begin appearing in my comment section. So let me try to catch you up on some of the things that have been capturing my attention during the last week or so.

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Sometimes I'll go for days on end with no entries on this blog, but on Sunday when Wordpress.com was down most of the day, its unavailability because of some server glitches created an almost uncontrollable urge in me to post something.  Strange, isn't it?

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It was four years ago today that I began It's News to Me on Blogger with this post. I suppose that date in 2002 was the day I became an official blogger, but as I said in that post I had attempted to create a blog on Tripod on Father's day in 2001, so maybe I should celebrate that as the date that I became a blogger. Or maybe I have yet to become a blogger and might be more appropriately considered an Internet litterbug or defacer. In any event, I'm still at it after all these years.

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The beta version of Google Calendar was launched last night. There are already many articles about it on the 'net, so I'll only mention it here and point to some of them, such as this and this and this. You can see screen shots of it in this collection that Dave Winer put up on Flickr.

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