There have been a number of comments here at adot's notblog (and even more in email) suggesting, and even demanding, that I stop blogging about Mars and the Mars rovers. To the folks making demands, piss off. To those who have politely asked that I either blog more about Mozilla, less about Mars, or implement categories to keep the two separate, I appreciate the feedback and here's my plan:
I'm going to continue to post about whats on my mind and what I feel like writing about at that particular moment. This is my personal weblog and I don't feel any obligation to keep it focused on topics related to my "professional" (Mozilla) responsibilities.
Mars and space news is nothing new to this blog and it happens to be something I'm particularly excited about these last couple of weeks. If you're looking for Mozilla-only news, then mozillaZine.org is probably where you want to be. I don't forsee this blog ever becoming solely devoted to Mozilla. If anything, I expect to start blogging about even more topics.
That being said, I do realize that implementing categories and category-specific RSS feeds would go a long way toward alleviating the problem. At some point, I'll take a look at the MT documentation and see what's required to set that up. If it's quick and easy, I'll try to get posts categorized into "Mozilla", "Astronomy & Space", and "Personal" groups, or something like that.
It's also been suggested that I use the excerpt functionality to limit the size of the posts on the front page. I tried that in the early days of the blog and found it to be buggy. It caused parts of my posts to not show up and seemed to interact poorly with trackback auto-discovery. If I find myself with some free time, I'll play with it some more and consider bringing it back if there are no problems.
