The Blonde Diaries

I gave in and finally joined Twitter. I hear about it all the time but I just didn’t really feel the need to join into yet something else that would need frequent updates. But curiosity got the best of me as I have been trying my hand at blog contests which give extra entries for tweeting about the contest as well as seeing the recent Twitter entries from Rampage Jackson after Forrest ran out of the octagon last weekend. It all just drove me over the edge to try it out.

Luckily, Kimberly at All About Kimberly has been a member and was able to guide me through setting up the Twitter Tools plugin and configuration. I am hoping it makes things easier for me to both blog and do a little Twittering. I’m still not sure what to Twitter about or do with Twitter but I guess I’ll learn with some practice. So follow me: blondediaries

A few days ago when I was bouncing around blogs for Aloha Friday and then again on Teaser Tuesday, I noticed a bunch of blogs had this thing called Google Friend Connect on them.  I wasn’t quite sure what it was so of course I Googled it.   Why not right?

So I found out that Google FriendConnect is another social networking format for both bloggers and readers.  You can follow a blog and then go into your blogger account and see a list of all the blogs you are following because you like them.  There are other options based on how your friend has set their FriendConnect up where you can invite others, leave comments, rate posts, etc.  Right now I just have mine set up to help people bookmark/favorite me/follow me but I will have to see what other features I can add on for fun.

Here is a brief overview on Google FriendConnect if you want more information on it and how to sign up.  I would also like to thank The Accessory Lady for signing up to be my first friend.  I was wondering if I would ever have one. LOL!

I logged in this morning to see a note about upgrading to WordPress 2.8. I didn’t realize a new version of WordPress would be released soon nor did I know what changes or upgrades would be in store once I pushed that button and allowed my software to upgrade automatically. I figure at the end of the day I will need to upgrade so why not just go for it and then read about it later.

Upgrading went as easily as clicking a button with a mouse which is exactly what I did. No issues (no exceptions, waive further review – LOL a little auditor humor) everything seems to be working fine. One thing I did notice that was new is a box on my sidebar for series tags. I wasn’t paying attention earlier when I did my post about Direct TV and put in all of my post tags in the series tag box. I couldn’t figure out why there were no tags for that post until I came back later and saw that there are now 2 boxes for tagging posts. I haven’t figured out what series tags are for but thought I’d give a heads up so you don’t have the same question bugging you later on.

I also just noticed a link on my side bar to install a theme directly through the admin part of my blog. That will be nice because I never remember the address to get to my server. Then once I am finally to my server site, I never remember what user name and password I have used. I don’t have any themes picked out to add but I might have to do a search to find one and test this little feature out.

Have you noticed anything cool with this new version?? Leave me a comment and tell me all about it.