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DISCLAIMER: This is my personal blog. The blatherings here aren't (necessarily) the views of the current company I work for, companies I've previously blessed with my presence, my loving parents, the Illuminati, or anyone other than me, me, me!

FINALLY - Bladam 2.0! :)

I finally took the plunge. After blabbing about moving my blog over to Expression Engine software over a year ago, I’ve finally done it.

So what does it mean to you? Here’s the skinny on the major new stuff:

Comments post almost instantaneously. And even non-members can opt to get e-mail-notified when someone posts a new comment in an entry they’ve replied to.
No more three-column circus. Everything’s less cluttered and manically colored now.
Lots of miscellaneous goodies for “regulars” (see details)

If you’re interested in knowing more about the impetus behind the many, many changes and what it took to achieve them, read on! But before you do, just one humble request: PLEASE do let me know if anything is clearly not working or looking right. I’d really appreciate it!

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- Blathered by Adam on Monday, January 9, 2006 at 6:06 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites • Geekery • Blogging
- Commented on by 3 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Google RSS ads: Either foiled by anti-ad bastards or…?

I have run a single Google AdSense ad in each entry in my full-text RSS feed since May of this year. I'm apparently not allowed to discuss clickthru rates, so let me just say this:

Despite getting a rather decent amount of traffic for a personal blog, I cannot buy a pack of bubblegum with the revenues I've earned from ads in my RSS feed. In fact, I'd be surprised if I could buy a single gumball.

This comes as rather a surprise me, not to mention a disappointment.

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- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 1:44 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites • Geekery • Google
- Commented on by one person so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

BLADAM has both full and summary feeds available

Hi there,

After noticing that most of my faithful readers who catch my blog via Bloglines and other feed readers are grabbing my summary feed, I wanted to make sure you all knew that I have a full-feed available as well. For those in the un-know, here's the difference:

- SUMMARY FEED: Contains the first paragraph or so of each entry.
Choose this if you'd just like to skim my entries and visit my site for the full shebang.
- FULL FEED: Contains the entire entry.
Great for those folks who'd rather read it all in their feed readers.

For the URLs (including one-click access to both my summary and full feeds for My Yahoo and Bloglines), please visit my blog's homepage at http://www.bladam.com/. You'll see the XML and other icons on the top left.

I am happy and flattered that 400-500 of you visit my blog each day via my site or my feeds! Thanks so much for reading

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, June 5, 2005 at 3:12 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites
- Commented on by no one yet. Bummer. Check out the full entry page to leave a comment or trackback!

Feed Fabulosity (Atom, RSS, Full, Summary… oh boy!)

I'm at least temporarily offering both summary full feeds via FeedBurner... which delivers Atom, RSS, whatever your newsreader likes

. Just look on over at the lefthand-side of any BLADAM page for the links.

Since I do like people to actually visit my site, however (for both selfish and unselfish reasons) I'm debating on whether to keep the full feed or perhaps just run with the summary feed in a bit.

If you have any strong opinions -- heck, ANY opinions (:cough: comment whore :cough

-- please speak below or forever hold your peace.

Or is it piece. I never did figure that out...

Argh. Blasted late night foggy ramblings

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 4:58 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites • Geekery • Blogging
- Commented on by 2 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Got business aspirations? Neuter your blog or suffer the consequences.

What would you think if you saw a blog from Bill Gates or Carly Fiorina or Sergey Brin or even your boss with musings about their personal life... fears, hopes, dreams, quirky friendships, frustrations, and so on?

You'd gawk, of course. And then you would -- along with, perhaps, the press -- freak out. "Wow, what a weirdo. Why's [such and such powerful person] writing about their personal life?"

Real (serious) businessmen and businesswomen, after all, admit no vulnerabilities. They're not even really human, except in limited, PR-approved ways. Indeed, it's okay for angsty teens or coding geeks or others to ramble about life, love, liberty and other personal stuff, but whoa unto the current or future business leader who dares tread into the realm of personal disclosure online.

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- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 15:51 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites • Geekery • Blogging • Personal
- Commented on by 3 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Disclaimers (no, I DON’T speak for [x])

My blog has helped me get new jobs. It has also lost me at least one job.

Additionally, as I've seen my comments here and elsewhere on the Web alternately praised and skewered, I've become increasingly concerned when seeing "...and he works for [x]" attached.

So it's long overdue for me to set the record straight, and I'll make the best effort possible to update this entry as my affiliations change.

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- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 13:05 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites
- Commented on by no one yet. Bummer. Check out the full entry page to leave a comment or trackback!

This is likely my last post

...using MovableType. It may be a week or so until you see my new ExpressionEngine-powered site, because tweaking is taking a bit longer than I had anticipated (more due to my fussiness than any EE problems).

In the meantime, this gives you (yes, YOU!) a great chance to offer me feedback.

- What have you enjoyed on this blog?
- Are there various options (navigation links, etc.) that you like? Others that are a waste of space or annoying or confusing?
- Are there certain features that you'd like to see? (a full text Atom/RSS feed option is in the works, for instance

)

As I work hard to implement new blog templates and features and so on, I would love to hear from you! Please take just a moment to drop me a note at adam at the domain bladam.com, or via my contact page (which includes my IM addresses, and so on).

Thanks so much, and have a great weekend

- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, May 29, 2004 at 15:52 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites
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Changing blog software… new Adam site, and more

Hi there

Before I skedaddle off to a going away party for a friend, I thought I'd share a few brief tidbits with you:

1) For a variety of reasons, I'm moving from MovableType (the software that currently powers this blog) to ExpressionEngine. More info on that later... but now, I'm warning you that there may be some (not-so-fun) funkiness with this blog over the weekend. Sorry!

2) For the whopping two or three of you (hi Mom, Dad, and Sis!) that are interested in more personal AdamDetails and would like to, say, listen to music I've composed and stuff like that... I now have a new site, lasnik.net. Come visit and let me know what you think

3) On a geekier note, I've learned that link rel="stylesheet"... seems to be a better choice than the style type="text/css" @import url(Style.css)... method, which for some reason makes the (same) stylesheet be reloaded upon every page (on IE, not Firebird, interestingly enough).

Anyway, I'm off! Have a great weekend, everyone!

- Blathered by Adam on Friday, May 21, 2004 at 19:54 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites • Geekery • Personal
- Commented on by no one yet. Bummer. Check out the full entry page to leave a comment or trackback!

Looking to chat about Life, Liberty, Love and stuff?

While I always LOVE seeing your comments here (hint hint hint!), I do also want to shamelessly plug my humble SmileZone Conversation Corner.

Topics include: Friendship, Books & poetry, School, Work, Humor, Riddles, Society & Politics, along with :ahem: Sex and Sexuality (discussions, you pervs, not pics... sorry

.

We have some of the world's best looking, er, scintillating moderators, fun and varied topics, and much more. And the claim to fame of the Conversation Corner? Flame-free discussions. Trolls are deleted mercilessly. Jerks are kicked out swiftly. It's not all love and cuddles but the forums always have a respectful and welcoming tone. So if you're sick of rude and mean-spirited discussion lists or forums, this will be a pleasant respite for you

.

Plus, for a limited time, you can get a SmileZone Conversation Corner account for half price! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that means that as a loyal BLADAM reader, you're entitled to one (1) free account. Use it wisely, and enjoy

I look forward to seeing you there!

- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 16:29 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites
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Community participation on this blog and SmileZone

I'm honored and grateful to have many thousands of you each month reading my blog and participating on my related SmileZone Conversation Corner but I'm saddened that my writings haven't stimulated as much discussion as I would have liked.

I don't plan on changing my writing style or what I write about, but if there are certain factors (usability and otherwise) on my site that'd encourage you and others to participate here more, please do let me know... either via the comments feature of this blog, or via other means.

Thanks!

Edited to add:
There's also that handy-dandy "Mail to friend" link which lets you send a link to any article to -- yeah, you guessed it -- a friend! :D

- Blathered by Adam on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 at 17:36 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites
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