Site Navigation and other Goodies

(If you are viewing this from Facebook, you'll need to visit profcameron.blogspot.com to see the things referenced in this post)

I notice some interesting Google searches that end up on my little blog, for example, in the last week, I've had some of the following:

"email hoaxes personality types"
"i am an employee i want free resumes database of employes jobs of biometrist in newzealand"
"how to attract professor"
"she-goat, wolf and cabbage download"

I am not even sure what some of those folks were looking for, but they put those terms in to Google and found my site.

Anyway, just for reference, I wanted to mention some of the things I have set up through Blogger:

1) Email updates: Google's Feedburner service allows you to get my posts via email. It's free, and if you enter your email address in the box over on the left hand side, you can add (or remove) your email subscription. I've copied it here. If you enter your email and then click "subscribe" you will get my posts via email. Feedburner is spam-free, and I don't even see your email addresses without looking really hard to find them.

2) Site search: Up at the top left corner, there should be a text box from Blogger that says "Search" next to it. If you are looking for a keyword from a prior post, you can use that to search.

3) Labels: At the end of each post, you will see an area that says "labels" - these are little keywords I attach to each post. For example, I will label this post with keywords like "Google". If you want to search all things related to one of MY labels, there is a list of labels along the left hand side of the screen, typically about a screen down from the top of the page. Clicking on a label shows you all posts I gave that label to.

4) Facebook updates: I created a Facebook account, and set it up so my blog shows up there as a "news" item. Posts from my blog show up on my wall in Facebook, so you don't need to even remember my Web site address of profcameron.blogspot.com to get here. You can add me at any time.

I'll be posting my Fall 2009 schedule next week, and also discussing jury duty (I got selected for jury duty for the first time, and it's been an interesting experience - but I am not supposed to really discuss much until the trial is over - better safe than sorry).

My blog on Facebook

For those of you who have added me on Facebook, I updated my account so that my blog posts will publish there. There is also a link back to blogger, if you want to comment, etc.

Site Update: Want Email?

I've enabled a feature to allow you to receive my blog updates via email if you'd like. You can find this feature on the right hand side. If you enter your email address, you will receive a daily email with the new stuff I've added to the site, through a Web service called FeedBurner. Don't worry, they are owned by Google, so they are about as trustworthy as you can expect a site to be!

Site Updates: Favorite Sites

I figured that I would add links to some of my favorite sites on the right hand side. As of now, I've only added Amazon and The Simple Dollar, but I will definitely add more as time goes on.

Site Updates: Comments Enabled

I've decided after discussing this with a few people to enable comments. You will notice that for each post in January, commenting is enabled. I'd definitely like to hear from you. If you see a post of interest, feel free to comment and leave your thoughts.

I'm back

I'm back and catching up on email after "roughing it" for 10 days without using a computer! (A GameBoy Advance doesn't count, right?)

I have a few things to post, which I will do over the weekend.

AFK: Away from Keyboard

Hi folks!

I will be AFK for the next 10 days or so. I have a trip to the Dominican Republic planned, and I am looking forward to a little vacation. Will I actually avoid cyber cafes? We shall see.

For your reading pleasure, here is a list of common chat acronyms. Ever wonder what people mean when they say lol (laughing out loud)? Or ttyl (talk to you later)? How about roflpmp? Well, that one you'll just have to look up on the site below.

http://www.pulpchat.com/faq/faq215.php

Site Updates

I removed the "Search My Blog" from the right hand side. Google added their own version at the top of the page, so use that from now on.

I also organized the links a little differently.

Site Updates

Google's blogger.com service finally has come out of beta. What this means is that I now have some neat new features that I have to investigate. One of the interesting ones is the ability to use labels. For example, I will be able to label things related to hacking with the label hacking, and you would be able to click on that and get a list of all hacking related articles.

Of course, that means going back and editing past posts, so we'll see how quickly I get around to that - but at least for future articles I will use this feature.