Two Things:

1) Andrew informed me that my posts were showing up as authored by "Kirith Kodachi/Farseer Bill" which probably makes no sense to most of my small readership. I have a gaming blog where I post with those names and since both blogs are under the same account, there is some crossover. Since I am the only author of this blog, I changed the template to just show the posting time and not the author.

2) I got my first stripe for Blue Belt yesterday, probably the last advancement before the babies arrive and my free time becomes secondary consideration, which means I will probably not get my second stripe until late summer or fall.

That's it, carry on.

Meta-Blogging : Bill's Shared Items

Part of the benefit of using Google Reader as my blog roll reader is the option to "share" posts I find on other blogs and add them to my side bar with the click of a button. See, over there below the Jiu Jitsu progress graphic? It has the post title and a link to it and all I have to do it one click to get it there instead of making a whole posts to say something like "read this!".

Of course, very interesting things that require commentary will continue to appear in this space so don't expect me to get too lazy.

Good Bye Old Friend

When I started blogging way back in the day I needed a blog reader to keep track of new posts on blogs I read. I found Sauce Reader and thoroughly enjoyed it despite some minor quirks and bugs.

However, due to business reasons and such the makers of Sauce Reader ceased development and supporting it a couple years ago and technology marches on. The new version of Blogger that uses the Google account is not compatible with Sauce Reader for making posts so I could no longer post from within it (annoying) and recent blogs I've tried to subscribe to have feeds that seemed to not work. Frustrated, I figured it was time to move on.

I tried the original version of Google Reader way back and found it quite annoying to use. I'm giving the latest version a new try and so far seems nice. If I don't like it and move on to something else I'll let you know.

Meta-Blogging

I've moved this blog to the new Blogger Beta that hooks into my Gmail account. So the new things like Labels and possible format changes (as well as a spell checker I've started using in FireFox woot!) will be noticeable.

That's all, carry on.