Mountain Lane Homesteaders

Another challenge recently listed was for technical blogging tips and I just discovered a new one I thought someone might find useful.

The other day I read something on a blog that interested me and then over the course of the next day the subject was on my mind and I wanted to read it again. The only problem was that I didn't know the name of the blog to search for it and it had passed out of the 100 newest posts. What I did know was that it had been within the past 2 days and I thought I could remember what the person's avatar looked like. So I went to the main page of homesteadblogger and clicked on "member list" (top righthand corner). When that comes up it lists all the members in alphabetical order but if you go to the column that says "Last Activity" you can click on it and it will bring up members that have had the most recent activity (I think it also shows when someone's just been reading even if they haven't posted). Doing this I was able to scroll down the past couple of days and look for the picture I remembered. It didn't take me long and I had found what I was looking for (it should go without saying that this method is more time consuming if the person is using the picture of the sheep!). One caution though, be sure to start from page one and scroll down rather than looking for a specific date because if the person has added a newer post than the one you are looking for, their avatar won't show up again on the date of the past entry.

If your mind, like mine, happens to remember the avatar picture better than the name of a blog this might be helpful for you sometime. I have to really be on my toes when someone changes their picture though don't I?!!!