While I haven’t tested it yet, the Buzz settings indicate that this blog is now set to be re-posted automatically. I assume that means when I publish this message it will be similarly published in Buzz. I spent almost an hour looking around for solutions online and found, if anything, far too many solutions — for enabling a “Buzz This” style button on your WordPress blog, which is not what I wanted to do. Finally I asked a friend who suggested the answer: Set up your website on Google Webmaster Tools and the option to display it in Buzz just appears magically!
Now I’m going to post this and see if it works. Wish me luck 
I am attempting to teach myself Spanish. Simple enough, one might assume. Of course, in writing Spanish words on the computer one must learn how to use those fancy little accents and weird upside-down characters. Actually, the information supplied at my university was to the effect of “Here, take this file full of special characters and copy/paste them whenever you need it. Or you can memorize these painfully abstract alt codes to have the same effect.” It worked. I memorized the alt codes for use, painfully, while I was at school.
Recently, I have taken a renewed interest in learning Spanish. This time it is at home, on my own computer. This means I am no longer on Windows and can no longer use those not-so-friendly alt codes. So should I copy and paste each character each time? Ridiculous, I say! Of course, it is ridiculous, and alternate keyboard layouts were designed to solve that very problem. Here is where the simple things get complex. I don’t use the regular QWERTY (aka “US style”) keyboard layout. I use the Dvorak layout, which is much more efficient. I would expect, given that Dvorak is at least somewhat popular, that there would be more than one person in my situation and as such I would be able to select “Spanish Dvorak” or “International Dvorak” and be done with it. Not so. There are both such layouts included on my system, and I have tried them both. They are both ridiculously complicated for what I need, and the Spanish Dvorak keyboard layout switches some keys around on me. All I want is a few simple acute accents and an upside-down question mark / exclamation mark.
After searching around online for a very simple Dvorak keyboard layout that included the keys I required, I concluded that there was no such keyboard. There are many overcomplicated attempts which seem to feel that after including the needed keys for Spanish, they might as well turn it into a full international keyboard. At the current time, I don’t need any such thing. Whatever is a poor, tired programmer to do? Oh, I know. I got fed up and modified my current Dvorak layout to suit my needs. All the tutorials I found on how to create custom keyboard layouts were too out of date to really help me, but they pointed me in the right direction and I eventually managed to find the proper file to edit in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us (since Dvorak is a variant of the “US Layout” aka layouts for the English language). Simple as pie! Now using the AltGr (right alt) key in combination with normal letters brings the proper diacritical mark (acute accent for vowels, tilde for n) and reverses the exclamation/question marks. No extraneous marks have been added. This is a pure Dvorak layout for those needing to type Spanish text.
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