This looks interesting:

Delicious is a social bookmarks manager.

Using simple bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them. You’ll get them on this page after you log in.

[via Free Wisdom]

I’ve added my geocode to the blog, so it’ll show up in services like Localfeeds. It’s a cool feature. If you don’t already use it, add it!

Two sites I’ve found useful in answering questions about TypePad are the TypePad Users Group, and Unofficial TypePad Resources. Thanks, guys.

It’s a good thing I didn’t find out about MTIncludes until after both children were born. Otherwise I would have been strongly tempted to name one of them “MTInclude.” It’s such a great feature.

Now that I’ve got it working, I’ve moved the “Recently Updated Weblogs” feature back and forth, from one sidebar to another, probably half a dozen times.

It’s the kind of mindless activity and use of processor cycles that probably drives the TypePad people crazy. But I have fun with it.

(For those who are unfamiliar with MTInclude, Liza’s brief tutorial is a good place to start.

I got the MTInclude feature working, thanks to some careful attention to… which set of templates I was actually using.

So more playing about with the layout of the blog!

Though I am getting the occsional error message. I hope I haven’t done something to bring down the entire Typepad system.

Okay, it’s now official: this is the new center of my blogging activity. If you got here from relevanthistory, please change your bookmarks, blogrolling list, or what have you.

The RSS feed for this site is at http://www.askpang.com/index.rdf.

Thanks for sticking with it!

This is now my blog home. I’ve got about eighty percent of the photographs from the kids’ blog up and working, and have converted the individual posts on relevanthistory.com to pages that forward to their equivalents here. I’m also going to keep relevanthistory.com up for an extra month, to increase the odds that people will redirect their browsers.

I’m going back and forth about whether I want to keep the relevanthistory.com domain name. I got it with an eye to setting up a consulting company a couple years ago. That never happened, but it made sense to use the domain when I started blogging.

The one thing that makes me hesitate is that I don’t want to lose the work and value created by the links and RSS subscriptions make relevanthistory.com. I’ve been reading Frank Ryan’s Darwin’s Blind Spot (thanks again, Howard), which is about the role that symbiosis plays in evolution. Ryan points out that the concept of symbiosis has its origins in nineteenth-century studies that established that many species of trees have fungus growing in and around their root structures, that multiply the root structure’s surface area by a hundredfold and help keep the tree alive. The relationship is so intimate, and so essential for both parties, it’s hard to say where the tree ends and the fungus begins.

Blogs (and other Web sites) and links are like that: yes, they’re separate, but they’re also deeply intertwined. If meaning is defined by context, then some of the meaning of what I write is defined by the fact that people link to it; and if I break those links, I lose.