This is one of those bland notes about my site that is eminently ignorable, except to the tech heads who for some reason visit this site (maybe because they’re my friends?). I just modified my site’s RSS feed to display how many comments there are for each post, if any.
If you think this is a good idea, a bad idea, or especially if this is annoying or a problem for your feed reader, please let me know.
And if you do comment, well, that’ll test the new feed feature. Everybody wins!
Oh, by the way, I don’t know if I mentioned, but I took the most annoying ad out of my blog page. It’s a little less jarring now.
And I made the photos on every page except the front page be random—the front page is still the latest photos. What I’d REALLY like is if the photos were ones from the same date as the post, but that’s not possible right now. Sigh.
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)