6:54pm

ok, right now I'm testing out feedblitz.com and considering using a google group. I know I'm wasting my time, but what else is new.

3/12/07

Warning: semi-techno-babble ahead. I set up the notification through feedblitz, it has some drawbacks, but it's pretty straightforward, you don't need to sign up for anything, you just have to type in your email address, you can unsubscribe easily, and the emails aren't too ugly or anything. it checks once a day for updates to the journal and sends out an email if there are any. only problem with that is, if I go find a typo in some super-old journal entry, I'm gonna fix it, and it'll probably consider that an update and send you a link to the entry, and you'll be all: wtf, there's nothing new here! but I'll try to keep that to a minimum, and this is not always a bad thing since I do go to old entries and add things to them (ie. this entry right here). I set it up so you can't read the entry in the email because I don't want to take any traffic away from my site (this is why I didn't do the group thing, blogger has this thing where it will send new entries to an email address you specify, so if you send it to a group address, it goes out to all the group members, just incase you were wondering how that was supposed to work). I think I have the option to put in a footer in the emails and may put in some exclusive links to mp3 files or something, I'm not sure yet. because it only sends out emails once a day, I haven't done any full-fledged testing of this yet, but I'm pretty sure it's good to go (hence me putting the form on the page), to sign up for it just click the subscribe link under the archives. and again, I know that not many people read this journal (I should assume that since I don't have many comments, I don't have many readers), but it's sort of designed to increase the reading of the journal, and maybe I have a few silent lurkers out there, who knows. I usually try to avoid posting boring website entries like this one, but sometimes I can't help it, since I'm not only a mediocre musician, I'm also a mediocre webdesigner/developer.

but, back to something relevant, I can sing again! at least, for the most part. so I am very grateful for that.

(speaking of typos, this whole thing has given me some incentive to proofread, to avoid making a million edits to an entry, and I fixed two semi-ironic typos, both of which I make all the time, one being "type" instead of "typo" and the other being "sign" instead of "sing". I'm all about irony, even when it's as incredibly pointless as this, so I just had to share that. I'll shut up now.)

5/14/07

oh, and apparently edits don't show up on the notification emails. oh well, that could be a good or a bad thing.