Making blog posts out of the "normal" temporal order
Posted on: November 14, 2006I'm used to seeing or hearing about bloggers who set their posts to publish in the future. WordPress is very useful in this regard: you edit the timestamp for some hours, or even days later, and it can look like your fave prolific author's blogging on vacation. I've been playing with it myself, usually setting posts for half a day later so they show up… ta-da! when I'm actually at work doing other things.
But then it occurred to me: so much forward continuity. What about posting backwards in the timestream? Especially for a chronojaunter like myself, it makes perfect sense. I haven't done it yet, but maybe I'll start to make posts that are stamped several hours earlier than I wrote the bulk of them — why only the bulk?
Herein lies an internal truth: often, when I perform actions which appear spontaneous, they actually have roots. Since I wasn't born yesterday, a lot of my "sudden" exclamations have conceptual ancestors, prototypes of ideas I revisit time and time again. You know the saying, "He was a ticking time bomb, ready to go off"? That's often a negative thing: for me, I'm a ticking time bomb, READY TO EXPLODE WITH JOY!!!
Anyway, I believe it's worth a go.
I like learning job skills that are applicable to other areas of my life. Learning better bug reporting in Second Life has led me to reporting bugs for other programs too, like this bug I filed on Zoho Writer. I primarily use Zoho as my blog editor, its toolbar is so well-configured with the optimum balance of power and usability. I hope they'll continue to improve the loading speed and allow me to link directly to documents, as it's not as responsive as Google Docs in this area yet.
Speaking of Google, I notice they've been really slow to crawl my new site and get all my page URIs updated, so please pardon me if you came here and got a FOUR-OH-FOUR ERROR! That's why I've been hoping to find a "smart" redirect plugin that'll help me migrate… no hooks thus far. I'll keep going, it's what I do.
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November 14th, 2006 at 5:40 PM PST
Hate to pull out the geek talk, but if you are running apache here and have some ability to access your configuration files you could (carefully) set up some rules to have apache transparently redirect to the new location. I say to be careful though because if your redirect rules don't consider every case they could hit every web request and take down your website
November 14th, 2006 at 5:53 PM PST
btw, yes there is a link there, even though it's a bit difficult to see
November 14th, 2006 at 7:33 PM PST
You could try this for the redirects (copy and paste these into the files mentioned):
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
#strip www out of request
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.torley\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://torley.com/1 [R=301,L]
#redirect .htm requests to redirector script
RewriteRule ^(.*).htm$ /redir.php?value=$1 [L]
redir.php
<?php
$newurl='http://torley.com/'.str_replace('_','-',$_GET['value']);
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("location: $newurl");
exit;
?>
I've done some testing of this, and it does work, as long as there are no .htm files you need to access.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:59 AM PST
Im not sure about the rest of you, but I think Torley is already posting in the past at times. I mean, sometimes I can look at the front page, and see the top post, and the following 3 posts, then when I check again, theyre slightly out of order, and theres a post I managed to miss in between them all.
Maybe its just Opera, and the cache playing tricks on me..?
November 15th, 2006 at 6:24 PM PST
Thanx for the tips, Odysseus and Claryssa. Perhaps if I have some time this weekend I can dig into it. Otherwise, I just hope time will pan things out. ^.^
Nanaki, I've actually done that on occasion… so sometimes, it *is* deliberate.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:16 AM PST
i knew it! =o
*puts on tin foil hat*
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