Updates and Bug Fixes for June 26th
Today’s Blogger release is a big one for Blogger in Draft. Let’s lead off with the quick stuff:
- Google Gadget integration continues to improve, with better editing of gadget preferences.
- The new look for the Dashboard has seen a handful of tweaks, including a new button style that we’re trying out and, by popular demand, the “show all blogs” toggle is now sticky.
- The subscribe page element has been published to WWW.
- We’ve added a “Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard” to the Blogger in Draft dashboard, so now you don’t have to remember to type “draft.blogger.com” instead of “www.blogger.com.”
- So you can easily keep up with the news, we’ve added this blog as a tab on the Blogger in Draft Dashboard.
But that’s not what you came here for. You wanted this:
- Webmaster Tools Verification. Turn this on to automatically add and verify all your blogs on Google’s Webmaster Tools.
- Star ratings. Add a 0–5 star rating control to the bottom of your posts so that your readers can rate them.
- Import / export of blogs. Back up all of your posts and comments to one Atom XML file on your computer, and import your posts from one blog to another.
- Embedded comment form. By incredibly popular demand, we’ve brought the comment form to your blog’s post pages, with support for Google Account and OpenID authentication.
- New post editor. We’ve completely revised the post editor, bringing in drag-and-drop image placement and better HTML handling.
As always, these features are on Blogger in Draft because we’re not done with them and we’re looking for your feedback.
Please read the posts for each of the features before trying them so that you know what’s working and what isn’t. Make sure you leave comments! These are big features for us, so we want to get them right before we turn them on for everyone.
— Pete
That "Pete" isn't me, but he has a cool name :) Anyway, I like the fact that I can now download all of my posts to archive, and I love the new layout. If you haven't switched over yet, do it now (for those of you that blog).
I skipped yesterday running and working out (I blame Chebon for that one), and I almost skipped today... I've realized that if I go upstairs to check out the PS3 any time after about 10PM, I'll be in big trouble. Last night I found a ton of new demos to download and play, plus (thanks again Hollingsworths!) Assassin's Creed. I didn't like it at first, but I'm really starting to enjoy that game.
Emily's last day of Bible School was last night. This morning she's been asking, "am I going to Bible School?" "No," we tell her, "next year though." That seems to hold her off just fine. It must be really nice having no concept of time :)
Everybody out there that has been following any of these posts for any length of time, or anybody that knows me at all will really enjoy this next part. I told Leslie this morning that...
"I'm getting rather tired of Benjamin jumping every time there's a noise around here."
Her reply: "Karma. Karma. You earned every bit of this one."
I guess so. I mean, I went to go get some ice in my cup this morning and he about twitched his way out of his bouncy seat! The kid is turning into a turrets child! Wait a second.. Maybe he has turrets.. That's it. He's not deaf anymore, he just has turrets. I'll have to make a note of that one for the doctor next time.
Emily's really gotten to know
YouTube lately, and I've put a couple of links under her name over to the left. Now she loves to start with one of those, and then pick lots of "related" videos, most of them in different languages. The best part is she's starting to sing them in their languages as well (who knew she would learn Polish?)
Okay, so I've been thinking lately about as soon as we get the bills payed off for having Benjamin (I really loved hearing stories of folks on HMOs when they told me, "we had our kids for 75 cents!" A lot different than our close to $12,000 - hopefully less when Health Choice gets done with it... but, if history dictates this one, it won't be a lot less), and as soon as my education (and Leslie's when she goes) gets paid off, what "little" projects do we need to do around the house? Well, here's my list (it's just started of course, I'm sure it will grow):
- Back porch furniture and grill: $2500
- New audio equipment upstairs and new projector: $4000
- New deck outside (double deck, two story): $3500
- Convert window upstairs to a door so I can step out on that cool deck: $10,000 ish?
- Actually decorate the house: $5000
Not a bad list to start with, right? hahahahah, hey, we can all dream, can't we? What's a small $25,000? Oh, what's that you say? We have two kids growing up? Okay, maybe I should revise the list:
- Piano lessons: A lot
- Tae Kwon Do (of course): Less, but still $$$
- School expenses (clothes, books, supplies, etc): A lotter
- Ballet (for Emily.. or heck, maybe Benjamin too): A lottest
- Sports: Tons and tons
- Food, clothing, other stuff for home: [how do you make the infinite sign?]
Okay, so maybe not many of my dreams any time soon :)
Thanks. I didn't know about the "in draft" option. I almost had a crying fit the other day when I was importing pictures. I shall deem you my "blogging sensei".
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