Amazon Media Manager
For the books I'm reading, or using for my projects, I'm taking advantage of a WordPress plugin Amazon Media Manager.
In the interest of honesty, let me tell you that I am an Amazon Affiliate, so if you don't want to give me a few pennies if you buy a book I recommend, go to your favorite bookseller directly, not through my links.
And, let me also recommend a great GreaseMonkey script for Firefox - Book Burro. Using Book Burro you can quickly see which of the book selling sites you visit have the best price on a book.
Getting back on track
I haven't posted anything here for some time. I switched over to WordPress from blogger.com, and then ran into the same issues with WordPress I was having with blogger (formatting of code). I think I've got solutions now for all my issues, and so I should be able to get back on track.
I'm trying out the WordPress Code Highlight Plugin to make my XML/XSL/etc. look a bit better. We'll see how those work.
Converting to wordpress
I'm moving my blog to WordPress due to multiple issues with Blogger. The last straw was the difficulty posting anything in <pre> or <code> elements.
So far I really like WordPress. There are some real site management tools, the editor is better, you can manage pages outside of the normal blog timestream, and it supports plugins. I still have a few things to work out, like the RSS feed, and, of course, the template design, but that's going to be fun for me. Also, I don't see any spell-checking functionality in the editor, but that may just be me.
More blogger issues
Blogger doesn't allow me to use <code> or <pre> in posts. That sucks. I'm working on XSLT stylesheets right now, and I want to blog about them, but I can't because entering the information is impossible.
The amazing thing is that you can include those types of elements in your comments, but I can't put them in my blog!
Everytime I think I've resolved all my blogger problems (comments, trackbacks, categories), another one pops up. So far I haven't found an acceptable work-around for this one. If you have any tips, let me know.