Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

I can’t get enough of the site, Platial. It’s so easy to get started and such a fascinating way to present information. I LOVE it!

It’s changing daily. It will eventually document every place I’ve spent more than 6 weeks over my whole life. I’m so geographically-challenged that imagining this visually wasn’t possible… until now!

OK, off to see Billy!

Excellent news! If you blog about something that you shouldn’t have, and you want it to disappear from Bloglines, here’s what you do.

• Create another post with the exact same title as the offending post
• Edit the timestamp to the same day and time of the offending post
• Fill the body with whatever you want ("…" or "Post removed")
• Post it to your blog
• Watch Bloglines update and breathe a sigh of relief because even though your karma may be bad and your conscience might not be clear, at least you’ve deleted the electronic trail.

Not that I’d know anything about this…

{{Phew!}}

Thanks for the tip. You know who you are.

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Addendum: The tip I described above gets rid of most versions of RSS feeds (approximately 4/5 that Bloglines lists), but it left one feed undeleted. I’m glad I posted this tech tip because Kellan, a local JP blogger who I’d given a tip to recently recently about Amazon Prime, checked his feed and still saw the offending post. Turns out he knows the Bloglines guy and was able to ask him directly.

Here’s what I’ve learned: The important thing when deleting a post from Atom RSS feeds is the exact URL of the original post. This is important information. You may not feel you need it at all, but stick it in your back pocket just in case. Before you go deleting posts from your web page willy nilly (only to leave them there for the world to see in RSS feed histories), write down the full URL. That way you’ll know what WordPress calls the post slug.

When you recreate the replacement post (the one that says something like "nothing to see here"), you will need to edit that post to have the exact same URL as the original post (i.e. the original one you regret).

Now prevention is the best way to deal with something like this, but in a pinch, this will work. I never thought I’d need this information, but I did. Like I said, keep it in your back pocket in the rare instance that you might need it. And pass it on. Friends don’t let friends leave up posts they regret!!

Post to del.icio.us

Share your Wifi. Find Free Wifi.

I know we’re thankful to Earthen Groove and Ophelia’s Linkup when ours goes down! We ended up meeting the owners of those at a party on New Year’s Eve and were able to thank them directly!

There are so many great tagging / social networking / folksonomy / bookmarking sites launching lately. It’s hard to keep up. I tend to join all of them, just to see what works and what doesn’t. I have a strong need to affiliate, as you may have noticed. Here are some of the ones I’ve been checking out lately. See what you think.

• Hey Let’s Go
• Gather
• Cluckoo

And the ones that are for reviewing cool places:

• Yelp and Yelp Maptastic
• Insider Pages
• Judy’s Book

And don’t get me started on my favorites:

• Ask MetaFilter
• del.icio.us
• Flickr (oh, and if you want to get some GORGEOUS books of the photos you have uploaded to Flickr, I highly recommend Qoop. I got my mother some of these for Christmas, and we were all VERY impressed.)

I wonder how long before Google Transit gets to Boston? Until then, it’s Googlemaps + Boston mashups for me.