Blogging (and a Footnote)

At the risk of looking like I'm putting my head up my bum I should probably mention at the start of a year of blogging that this isn't the only place I post stuff. I used to post to the news section of the original Opus managed web site, the Milton village site. That's where all this started: being able to post news via a web browser and have it appear on the site.

So I was amused when blogging first appeared on the scene as I'd been doing it for a long while. But RSS added a new element to the mix which I embraced with enthusiasm and I think pretty much all the Opus sites I've developed with a news section in recent times include an RSS feed. That includes the following sites to which I post:

Milton Country Park - when we were fighting to save the Park we acquired this domain intending to use it for a local trust if we took on running the Park ourselves. It didn't work out that way so Beth and I have re-used the domain as a place to celebrate the Park and we post to the blog there fairly often at the moment, often with photos.
Milton News - now that I'm not running the village site on a day to day basis but I am still running the milton-news mailing list I'm trying to merge the mailing list with a blog with an RSS feed. The intention eventually is that I'll post things to the blog and the software will automatically spit out emails to the mailing list.
My Milton web site - milton.org.uk was actually my first choice as the domain for the village web site but at the time it was owned by a domain squatter. Eventually, long after miltonvillage.org.uk had become established as the domain for the village web site, milton.org.uk became free as he didn't renew the registration, so now it's mine and I occasionally write specifically Milton related things there.
Stroke Diary - on Sunday 3rd February 2002, aged 41, I had a stroke. A relatively unusual event for someone of my age. Being me I've documented what's happened since here.

Phew, that's enough advertising for one day.

Oh yes, and on the strength of yesterday's posting where I re-discovered my love of footnotes¹ I've upgraded Opus today to support them more easily.

When you're entering your thoughts into Opus you put any footnote text in the position where you want the note to appear wrapped in "{-" and "-}" and, as if by magic, it becomes a numbered footnote at the bottom of the article. So I can type