Word of the Day: Technoratified

I’ve now technoratified. According to websearch.com.au I have invented a new word. Unfortunately, Microsoft finds it 7 times, Ask 15, Google 27 times, and Yahoo 35 times. Webcrawler uses all of those search engines together and finds it 18 times; Dogpile also uses those same search engines and finds it 15 times. Curious. If you click on the links, you can try it yourself, but the results have changed thanks to this post. Anyway, after a conversation with some developers a few months ago about it, and reading about Cem Kaner and Michael Bolton make the move last November, I am also now on Technorati .

I was pleasantly surprised to see lots of people whose blogs I enjoy reading already there, so have linked to a few. A few too many in fact, and I have found a bug on my current config (Ubuntu/Firefox) that I cannot delete any favorites. I tried the advice in the FAQ without luck. I see no little red Xs against blogs, though I do see Xs when editing keywords. [Update: The red Xs are actually white Xs in red boxes that do not go red until you point at them! They are also under each blog, not near (to the right like in firefox or opera). I thought they were just a dull brown icon next to the url telling you where each blog was! Oh well, When I finally found it, there was a tooltip at least!]

I've also discoverd an annoying bug with the blog description. I updated my first attempt, which displayed on the edit page, but the main page showed the original. Wrong. I edited it again, and deleted the description. The main page then showed no description. Correct, but not what I want, I then restored my updated description, but the main description is still blank. Wrong. Grrr. I don't want to find these bugs, I just want it to work! There is also the slightly ungrammatical "1 blogs claimed", that I presume most users see.

I’ve uploaded my photographic representation of the golden ratio, with a wall border and my glasses as the figure line, using geometric perfection as a cover for my lack of the same. Completely accidental gestalt proximity, and I should have smiled as well. There’s also another technoratified Erik Petersen but he appears to be bug-free… (both literally , figuratively, and gestalt proximity figuratively as well)!