Blog Upgrade

I mentioned previously that I would eventually need to do an upgrade on this site. I finally decided to stop procrastinating and dig in. I'm happy to report that the upgrade is complete and I am pleased with the results.

For the most part, Cozzie's Corner should look very much the same to you. I made a couple minor changes over on the right hand side. Do you remember that Flickr badge that rotated a set of photos and postcards? That was a cool idea I suppose, but eventually it just got too distracting. So I removed that and added links to my Flickr picture sets and also to my Webshots photo albums.

You may also notice that the archives list looks slightly different. You can click those little arrows to expand and collapse the lists of posts for each year and month.

My favorite change, though, is the addition of the labels feature. If you look at the bottom of this post, and at the bottom of each post on this page you will see that there is a label (category) or two assigned to each post. If you scroll down past the archives list on the right-hand sidebar you will see a list of all the labels I have used and how many posts are assigned to each label. If you click one of those labels you will see a list of all posts labeled in that category. Pretty cool, huh?

Going back and labeling 195 posts would take quite some time. So for now I just did the last 25 posts and then went back and labeled a few here and there of the older ones. For example, I labeled all the posts relating to Walter's eye surgery as "eye report." That's so it's easy for me to find all those posts. I will try to go through and label a few more posts each weekend until everything is labeled.

I thought about changing the template - the look and colors - of the blog, but decided against it for now. I may revisit that idea later - perhaps when the blog celebrates its 2nd anniversary in October.

Pictures Coming

One of the things I love about this time of year is getting envelopes in the mail with Christmas greetings and those wonderful family pictures. I plan to post some of the contents of my mailbox here on the blog. Watch for the first one beginning Tuesday evening.

In the meantime, did you hear we made Person of the Year at Time Magazine? That is all of us who contribute to "user generated content" on the web. That means bloggers, people who comment on blogs, anyone who posts photos or videos online, writes an online review, or contributes to the many social networking sites. The buzz is that it's a controversial choice since all of us are not "a person," but I thought it was a cool idea. You can read more about it here.

One Year Old

Usually I'm pretty good at remembering birthdays. But this one just slipped by me when I wasn't looking. Whose birthday you ask? Why this blog's of course! I started Cozzie's Corner one year ago on October 16th.

This little project has turned out to be more fun and more rewarding on a long-term basis than I expected. Thanks to everybody who checks in from time to time to see what's going on here. I appreciate it.

Blogger (who hosts this site) is making some modifications behind the scenes. Although I'm resisting change for now I will eventually be required to do an upgrade on this site which may alter it somewhat. I took a lot of time in the blog's early days to customize it just the way I wanted it so I'm a little nervous that the upgrades will mess up some of my work. But not to worry, whatever happens I'll figure it out and Cozzie's Corner will continue.

Happy Birthday to Cozzie's Corner. This calls for cake.

New Blog

So many people are blogging these days. I have a goal on 43 Things to "Keep a journal." It occurs to me that starting a blog is one way to do that. I like that I can add links and pictures, and unlike a paper journal I am unlikely to lose it (although anything is possible). My goal is to add random bits from my life here and there - nothing too structured. Your comments are welcome.