Templin's Travels http://blog.lib.umn.edu/templin/templinstravel/ en Copyright 2009 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:25:42 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS -- a new language I think I could really like this RSS stuff on Bloglines, but I am struggling with several things:

1. What did I do wrong? I am not getting my Craig's List feed, even though I clicked on the same items that I did to get the other feeds?
2. How do I get a different layout, so I can have 2 or 3 columns of feeds?
3. OK, so what is "Disable CSS?"
4. And what is "Atom"?
5. Once I open a feed, does it delete the stuff that's on there? If I don't go to the feed for a week, does it keep all the stuff up there for the week or only the stuff for the past hour?

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I have tried "New Entry" to get my previous entry tonight posted. No luck.

I have used "show unpublished" to get my previous entry tonight posted. No luck.

I have even approved Bruce and Amy's comments to my blog, and they have not appeared.

I am resorting to reading the directions under "Help" (top tool bar) in Movable Type 3.2 User Manual. Let's see if that's any better...

OK, I just added a new "Primary Category" called "Blog Basics" because the directions told me "one category must be designated as the primary category for each entry." I don't remember having to name a category when I made my first to entries. (But then again, since I obviously don't remember how to get my comments actually to post, I don't remember a lot of the details from before...)

Hey -- what's this I'm reading about "Keywords" in the directions. I don't see a place on this screen to put in any Keywords. What am I not seeing, or is it not here?

I am supposed to decide if I will "enable this entry to accept TrackBack pings." HUH?? Also, what the heck is a "ping"????

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/templin/templinstravel/2008/10/make_that_an_hour.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/templin/templinstravel/2008/10/make_that_an_hour.html Blog Basics Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:02:40 -0600 Remembering how to login to my blog Agh! I got busy and forgot how to log into my blog. It took me about a half hour to figure it out. I wish I had bookmarked the login page when I created my blog :-( Fortunately, I was able to re-read Amy's blog lesson and, when I saw the video again, I was able to figure it out.

Now I'm struggling with getting this comment posted. I clicked "Save" at the bottom of this page and the pop-up screen says "Your entry has been saved. You can now make any changes to the entry itself, edit the authored-on date, edit comments, or send a notification." That doesn't really tell me anything about whether or not it actually got POSTED.

Also, when I did the quote just now, I tried to use the " tab on this page, but it didn't do anything. Am I missing something that I don't understand? (Probably...)

Amy, you just can't get too basic for this Digital Dinosaur!

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/templin/templinstravel/2008/10/remembering_how_to_login_to_my_1.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/templin/templinstravel/2008/10/remembering_how_to_login_to_my_1.html Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:37:55 -0600 Oh. I read the directions! OK. More information about my expectations of the course and all that:

1. I want to not look like a deer in the headlights when someone throws in a term about new technology. At a minimum I want to be able to pronounce the term and be able to say a sentence about what it is.

2. I want to be able to figure out how to download MPR programs onto my IPod and how to set it up so I can play the programs in my car when I am driving.

3. I want to be able to know the difference between Quick Time (or whatever that is) and all the other media player software thingies out there that a cool website says I have to have or download before I can see their cool video but when I click on the clicky thingie, it doesn't work!!! (Like I really wanted to see the insect videos from the Chicago Extension blog but couldn't get it to work)

4. I want to find out how to search for cool blogs that I would be interested in.

5. Oh. And I want to know EXACTLY how cool the IPod is going to be that I'm going to get when I complete the class. Will it program itself??

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