Make a comments widget in 10 minutes

I've updated the Recent Comments widget on the sidebar. Given the limitations of my Blogger template, I made use of the Blogger comments RSS feed + Yahoo! Pipes + Google Reader's clip. It now displays the author's name, followed by an excerpt of the comment (still dont' know how to extract X number of words from a feed element in Pipes - anyone know how?)



Is this widget better than the previous version?

386 days later

It's been 386 days since I started blogging (again). My last blog lasted for one day, back in 2001.



146 posts. That's about one post every four days (Math: 146/386). Not too bad, don't you think? (Spin is good on a Monday!)

Special shoutouts:

• Ranga & Tsu Lin: thank you for being loyal readers!
• Mel: thank you for letting me link to your site every now & then. Vicky is waiting for his comment to be approved
• Stanch, Satuhari & Kris: I know you're reading this -- it's an honour!
• Tossbox: thank you for the PR5 lovin'!
• Chin Geh: something's not right. You've stopped blogging!
• Ranga: see, if you had a blog, I'd be linking to you! You owe me a domain name suggestion to get started

Publishing with the new Blogger

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UPDATE: Publishing process worked nicely! I'm going to play around with the new features now =)

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I'm publishing this piece with the "new Blogger" which is just about to be released from it's beta state. Keeping my fingers crossed that the FTP publishing process works properly.

Blog away!

By the way, here's what I came across on my old dashboard after logging in this morning: