Yippie! It’s Friday again!. Been occupied with things this week, I didn’t even realized that the week is almost over.

This whole week, I got to work on time. Oh yes, ON TIME!. Our normal office hours is 8:00 – 5:00; Normally I get to work around 8:30 – 9:30 in the morning and knock out around 5:30 – 6:00 in the evening. It’s amazing that I’m on-time this week and proud for myself. You go gal!

Come to think of it, I never wake up myself in the mornings. Every morning at 6:30, Dad bangs at my door and tries to wake me up. I never move an inch from those bangings. Around 7:00, my mb alarm shrills in my ears; what a tedious job to switch it off and go back to sleep. Around 8:00, my bro comes in and yell at my ear. He would ask whether I’ll go with Dad transport or take a taxi later. His yelling is the worst and I can’t shut him off. If I don’t budge by a few yells, he would kick me and pull me down from bed. Most dreadful thing he does is jump on my bed with his slippers on. What an arsehole! There go my peaceful sleep, I would wake up in flash and kick him off. I for once, hate the idea of wrinkling the bed sheet. I hardly let anyone sit on my bed and when I sleep, I try not to move a lot so I can keep my bed sheet free of wrinkles. For that reason, him and I are the worst enemies unless he gets rid of his annoying habit. Anyways, this week my being on time is cos’ I wake up at the alarm time and come by Dad’s transport.

Ok enough about my sleeping habits, now back to the point. After catching up feeds on Google Reader and done a few blog hopping, some thoughts come into head.

I see many blogs use gravatar enabled comment system. I like looking at posts with variety of gravaters in their comments. It’s very eye inspiring and brings more motivation to read the post. But unfortunately some regular bloggers/commenters don’t bother to make a good use of the gravatar feature. It’s very easy to get a gravatar for your email and doesn’t take much of your time setting up. I made mine years ago when I started using the gravatar plugin for my blog and never changed since. It doesn’t need any maintenance or regular logins to keep up the password expirations or worry about photo hosting. I’m surprised at those who choose to ignore the existence of this wonderful and convenient service. Give it a try when you have time, you won’t regret it. Get a Gravatar account.

Another thought that hits me is about centralizing blog feeds. Some of you (including myself) have multiple blogs which from time to time you need to change blog domain, the host or even the blog platform. In such cases, it’s best to use a good service like Feedburner to centralize your feed. It’s very convenient and helps both blogger and subscribers in terms of less work, more acturate blog subscription tracking and easy to maintain/manage feeds. I got two feedburner links which I published on my old theme and haven’t add in this new theme yet. I’ll do that later.

By having a centralized feed, the blogger does not need to worry about notifying his readers with the new feed changes. He only needs to update the new feed link in the Feedburner control panel and it will process it accordingly. For example, my blog mayvelous.blogspot.com has .atom.xml feed previously. With the new blogger.com, it was changed to RSS feed with different link format. Both the old and the new feeds work fine, which is excellent, the readers can choose any of the two to subscribe. But having such multiple feeds make it very hard to track the total number of subscriber on your blog.

Another bad thing about individual-unburn feed is – when you change your blog domain, all the feed url also get updated hence might cut the original feed subscribers from your blog. There is a possibility of your old feed still functioning if you are only redirecting a domain but in case of changing an entire blog platform, there is no way your old feed can work as before. If that happens, it’s very hard for a blogger to request the readers to update their subscription. Probably the blog will lose half of the readers due to people (myself as one) plain old laziness in updating things.

Hence centralizing your feed is essential a good thing to consider and the feedburner is known to be a very useful service for many bloggers. So organize your feed by burning your feeds in a feedburner account. You can also use this site to combine multiple feeds before burning one in Feedburner.

Alrite, the post getting too long and I’m getting bored with typing so I’ll continue my other Friday thoughts later.

Kinda of feel odd, trying to translate back from my Myanmar post to English. Or should I express things in English first then translate to Myanmar? Nah, the feeling is just wrong. I think I shouldn’t translate but just write whatever comes in mind as long as the post gives the same message. I wonder how Mady done it cos’ both of her Myanmar and English posts are very well sync. Anyhow, I’ll try again later and see how it go.

Enjoy your Friday and have a good weekend!

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