Stupid, stupid, stupid Blogger! 

... and did I say "stupid"?! Arrrrgghhhh!

Lured by the siren song of Blogger Beta's tagging feature (which they stubbornly insist on calling "labels", even though everyone else says "tags"), I switched over to give it a spin. I went through all my posts and tagged 'em, republished my blog to make 'em active, aaannnd ...

... kept getting the following error message:

org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPConnectionClosedException: FTP response 421 received. Server closed connection.

And not all of my posts got tagged -- some did, some didn't. (At least, that was the deal the last time I checked.)

I started searchin' through Blogger's help -- no luck. Looked through the Blogger Help Group -- lots of techno-gobbledygook that was beyond me. Did a general web search -- again with the technobabble.

:::stream of verybadwords:::

Yeah, yeah, I know it's a beta version and therefore has bugs. But still, I'm grumpy.

Labels: blogging, technology, web design

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Fun with labels and lists 

Back in August, Blogger added the ability to tag posts in their new beta version, and they've finally let us existing users play with it now.

So, I've been going through old posts and tagging them (handy!), but annoyingly, Blogger is republishing stuff to my site feed. (Gaah!) I'm also trying to figger out a way to get a list of my tags (or "labels" as Blogger insists on calling 'em) to display in my template's sidebar. What a headache! I've been spelunking for code samples through their Help section to no avail. (Can anyone point me in the right direction?)

As I flail around getting all that put together, I apologize for any code weirdness that may pop up. And the gosh-darned webfeed republishing with gobs of entries. :::grumble:::

Labels: blogging, web design

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