Jaeger<\/a>. It’s an aggregator\/syndicator, but it goes beyond “simple” RSS and Atom feeds to offer alternative ways (Syndic8, and simply going out and checking content) to see what’s been updated. Far more reliable, in that way, than blogrolling.com, and a lot easier to add things in or taking things out.<\/p>\nAnd then — the trauma started all over. Ran into a software glitch (corrupted file) in Jaeger, and, boom, the system wouldn’t start. I thought it was a Firefox problem, but, regardless, I was without my favorite utility. Sure, I still had my blogrolling.com blogroll — but now that was like cutting off a hand — lots of feeds weren’t there, it was glitchy and unreliable, and I couldn’t see in advance what it was I was going to be going to.<\/p>\n
Yeesh.<\/p>\n
The Jaeger folks got me fixed up last evening, and things are back to normal. But it’s kind of amusing how dependent one gets on a tool, and how at-a-loss one feels when it’s gone.<\/p>\n
To that end, I think I’m going to start documenting here (again) some of the more major programs and tools I use, both for my own record (in case my machine should die again) and in hope that you, too, might get addicted.<\/p>\n
I just like to share the love, you know …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One upon a time, I kept the sites I liked to visit in my bookmarks. So when I was not on my PC, it was traumatic, because I couldn’t remember…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/testing_testing.html","url_meta":{"origin":5832,"position":0},"title":"Testing … testing …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Jun-06 1:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, testing (to see if I'm getting a ping through to blogrolling.com) (via http:\/\/rpc.blogrolling.com\/pinger\/). According to blogrolling.com, there are 65 sites using blogrolling to link to https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/index.html....","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5517,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/27\/blogrolling_in.html","url_meta":{"origin":5832,"position":1},"title":"Blogrolling in dough","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Feb-04 4:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Blogrolling.com, which manages the sidebar link lists of myself and many others, has been acquired by Tucows. Everyone promises more of the same, only better, etc. We'll see. It seems...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9491,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/blogrolling.html","url_meta":{"origin":5832,"position":2},"title":"Blogrolling","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Jun-06 10:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The blog ping system I go to -- Ping-o-Matic -- supposedly passes along the ping it receives to (among others) Blogrolling.com (which a lot of folks use to create a...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6522,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/minor_redesign.html","url_meta":{"origin":5832,"position":3},"title":"Minor redesign stuff","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Aug-04 11:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some tweaking around in the sidebar ... Farewell to blogrolling.com. I don't use the functionality, so it's a PitA to keep maintained. That means farewell to graphic buttons for link...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5015,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/rolling.html","url_meta":{"origin":5832,"position":4},"title":"Rolling","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Nov-03 8:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Either Blogrolling.com is having serious technical difficulties, or it's been hacked. Either would explain not being able to get to its homepage, and, instead, getting endless entries for \"Laura's Blog\"...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9489,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/on_a_roll_3.html","url_meta":{"origin":5832,"position":5},"title":"On a roll","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Jun-06 9:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, BD's blog is evidently now showing up in Blogrolling.com update list, but my blogs are not. The only distinction I can think of is that I use the ecto...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}