Day In The Life of Baz

This has been life for the past few weeks:

• Go to work
• Get home and sit for a minute
• Work on a Web Application for a client for a few hours (too many hours)
• Pass out at the computer and then tumble back into bed.
• Wake up late, and get to work usually 2 minutes before I’d be officially late.

The weekends aren’t any better:

• Friday night or early Saturday morning, drive 2 and 1/2 hours out of town
• Try to make some progress packing up Lava’s old apartment to prepare for her move.

I really hate moving, I really do. It’s one of my least favorite things in the world. Everytime I move, it’s always drama, and I don’t have any furniture. The last time I “moved” it took me about 5 weekend trips. I refused to get a U-Haul, because I didn’t have anything large enough to justify it, just a bunch of lil’ things. And I was going to be up here at least once of month anyway, so I just figured I’ll get anything I forget on those trips. I guess that would explain why there’s still a lot of my crap in this apartment.

Now if you’re a reader of my feed, let me first of all thank you for your loyalty and continued reading.

Basically, I’m sorry. I’ve been doing a lot of posts to test various feed plugins. And by definition, these need to come through the feeds. There’s no way (that I know of) to stop it or pause it. So you guys have been seeing a bunch of crap posts.

I would just like you to know that things are now going well. All the tests are complete and everything should be back to normal (until the next cool feed plugin comes along).

Thank you again.

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Now don’t look at me like that, it wasn’t my fault. I didn’t go do it on purpose. But none the less, I think some poor guy/girl isn’t having a very pleasant day/night because of me. Now please save the judging for the end of the post.

How It Happened

I was speeding along on the highway, following the speed limit and trying to be alert. There was a tailgater on me for some time, but I hadn’t noticed. I mean, we’re all doing 60, so my eyes are to the front. It’s a three lane highway and I was in the center lane. Now, I usually drive in the center lane. This gives me options when I need to switch lanes and I usually don’t have to bother with slow folks and people trying to merge on the right; and the speed demons in the far left lane. For some reason, the center lane was quite empty; I would soon find out why.

We all know that linking to your prior posts is a great idea. Google loves it and your new readers will love you for it. But knowing you lazy guys out there, you don’t really do it as much as you should. Well I’m going to help you out there. There one way you should know about already: the Related Posts plugin. I kind of prefer the Similar Posts plugin, but you guys already know that. But I got a great new way to help you out with your links.

Enter aLinks

I’m guessing that the “a” is short for “auto”. It basically helps create links without actually going through the tedious process. I mean I guess it’s not that bad, but I’m lazy, sorry. Now as with everything that helps us lazy people, there’s a bit of footwork involved. The way that aLinks works is off a set of key words or key phrases. You go to the administrator section and stick in some key words and when you use them in your posts, links and magically created. That’s it. Out of the box it helps you in three basic ways.

I’ve been having a problem deciding which plugin I should be using: “Related Posts” vs “Similar Posts”. I’ve decided to test both of them at the same time. Now, I’ve made up my mind:

Similar Posts blows Related Posts out of the water. I don’t know how the matching algorithms are different, but the matches ended up being more relevant. Some times Related Posts would return no posts, which Similar Posts gave me what I was looking for.

Not to mention Similar Posts has a great plugin that works for the feeds. So the decision has been made. I thank you for bearing with me during this experiment.

I’m curious as to which one you guys think is better:

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