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This is for testing only; please avert your eyes. Or, don’t. I’m trying to figure out what happens to the RSS feed if I leave a blog post’s title field blank. So what happens? Maybe you already found out. Or maybe it destroyed everything so I changed my mind and added some stupid title after all.

(Update: Still don’t know how it affects the feed, but it borks the comments page. So I can’t leave post titles blank until if & when I get that figured out.)

By the way, since I’m blathering about my site I might as well tell you: I think I’m going to resume the folding of my Twitter-stream into my other blog posts, the way I used to do back before I stuck ‘em into a little box in the sidebar. This would apply to both the normal web-view and the RSS feed. I have mixed feelings about this. Assuming you use an RSS reader and also care enough to follow my blog there (that’s a big also) then the RSS feed is going to be (to the best of my ability) a complete version of the various info-chunks that appear on my site, at least during the odd phases of the moon when I’m going anywhere near this so-called blog. That would be a good scenario for most people. But if you also follow me on Twitter, then you’re getting duplicate info. That’s annoying. An ideal option would be to offer a separate RSS feed for people who wanted one without the tweets. I’ll work on it, maybe… but there are a lot of things I want to do to tweak my website, who am I kidding? If it starts bugging you, let me know in the comments and maybe that’ll put a fire under my ass to get the template in place.

• Huh. If you delete a Twitter DM (incoming or outgoing), it gets deleted on the other person’s side too. I find that highly objectionable! #

• Twittering when I mean to DM: I do this over and over and over. How can I not do this, please? It’s like a fucking IQ test I repeatedly FAIL #

• Boy it’s really quiet on Twitter without the @ replies! Trying to decide if that’s a good thing or not. I’m thinkin’ not. #

• A month’s worth of my tweets have gone missing. Thanks fail whale! Supposedly not permanent. #

• (If you’re hacking up TwitterTools and wanna do testing to make sure it works, pretend you’re just being chatty. Oh hey, look over there!) #

• Running WordPress 2.7 RC1, tweeting from dashboard w/ Twitter Tools. Too bad I overwrote the plugin and broke the styling changes I’d made. #

• Twitter has been pissing me off lately, being down half the time. Trying out Plurk… I don’t think so, but who knows. plurk.com/user/edith #

I just started (again) using the TwitterTools plugin for WordPress to post individual tweets directly to my blog. Problem is, I wasn’t happy with the way the tweets were being displayed — raw and unstyled, and with no linkback to the status page on Twitter. When you use the post-to-digest feature it does have the linkback, and it’s easy to style because you can target the enclosing list element. So I wanted to copy those two features over for the individual tweet-to-blog posts. So I hacked that plugin into shape! I’ll post the steps I took in case it comes in handy for someone else.

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From the Twitter Blog:

BusinessWeek has an interesting (to us) article on Twitter this week: “The key question today isn’t what’s dumb on Twitter, but instead how a service with bite-size messages topping out at 140 characters can be smart, useful, maybe even necessary.

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• Coughed up the Euros to register TextMate. I’m going to be a happy coder from now on, using this with Transmit. Still like Coda too, but… #
• Twittering from inside TextMate. Pretty cool that you can do that, and blog too! I’ve tried MarsEdit etc. but this might be better for me. #

• I just blocked a ton of spammy Twitter followers thanks to http://twerpscan.com/ #
• Oh shit I ordered my scooter today! I mean… *portable electric vehicle*. http://www.rothmotors.com/ Soon I will be queen of the dorks! #

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