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I’m dissapointed that over half the people who comment on my blog dont have a gravatar. Maybe...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:14:06 +0100

I’m dissapointed that over half the people who comment on my blog dont have a gravatar. Maybe i’m just being a picky designer… am I?

Audio

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:23:50 +0100

A to do list...

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:04:39 +0100

Finish tumblr theme
Update and publish tumblr plugin
Update and publish zenphoto plugin set
Finish final project for university
Write a paper on firefly and the themes contained within
Write a paper discussing and criticizing the medias representation/construction of “international terrorism”
Finally get round to finishing Doom III

And I have until the end of May to get that all done!

"[20:43]Phae: bored [20:44] sww_away: me too [20:45] Phae: i am watching robotboy [20:46] sww_away:..."

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:49:13 +0100

“[20:43]Phae: bored
[20:44] sww_away: me too
[20:45] Phae: i am watching robotboy
[20:46] sww_away: that cant be fun then if you are bored?
[20:46] Phae: nothing is fun”

- #alt.uk

Yes I found it on digg, no I have no remorse about posting it...

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:16:39 +0100

Yes I found it on digg, no I have no remorse about posting it here… again.

Your Twitter is not your blog is not your Tumblr is not your FriendFeed

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:43:58 +0100

I tend to agree with the following:

carpeaqua:

I love the fact that Web software has become more social. Being able to see what music my friends are listening to on Last.fm or what they’re up to on Twitter has enriched my life and helped me get to know my friends and colleagues in ways I may not have before.

With these new applications, however, comes disconnect. Our data is on dozens of sites and for some it may be hard to keep track of every little thing you do online.

THAT IS OK.

If I am subscribed to your Twitter feed and not to your blog, it probably means I think what you’re writing is shit and I don’t want to waste my time on it. I do, however, find your tweets to be interesting, so please keep on Twittering.

I think we are at a point where this stuff is still being worked out. In a way, it’s like when a new design style is introduced. How many sites are now using that awful Lightbox technique (even PocketTweets.com does)? We feel some sort of internal need to share every single bit of our lives through every avenue we are afforded to ensure that every single person we’re connected to sees what we do.

Rest assured. You are not that important.

There should be a set of best practices for social software usage. If it did exist, I’m sure it would go something like this.

Your Twitter friends do not care when you have a new blog post, update your Flickr or post a new link to del.icio.us.

If you do have a link that is relevant to a discussion that points to your blog, it’s OK to cross-post it. Stay on topic.

Your Tumblr subscribers do not want to be updated everytime you post a new tweet on Twitter.

Your friends will find you on the sites they are interested in joining. You don’t need to spam other sites with crossed data.

Embrace services like FriendFeed and SocialThing if you want to aggregate everything.

(Bonus) Sending over 200 messages on Twitter in a span of 3 hours is completely unacceptable and an abuse of your status.

It’s my hope that sites like SocialThing and FriendFeed eliminate the prevalence of this annoying habit of cross-polluting multiple sites with the same content. Until then, I’ll just keep hitting my unsubscribe button on the overzealous few.

The state of tumblr...

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:35:58 +0100

I am writing this as a follow up to a tumblr post I submitted a few weeks ago titles “Say No to long tumblr posts”, in hind sight it wasn’t the most appropriate title quite simply because that wasn’t the point I was attempting to put across and with the increasing number of comments related to it I feel it’s in my best interest if I explain myself.

So far as I understand it tumblr began as a micro-blogging platform growing up in the same pond as the likes of twitter. The one thing that makes tumblr stand out is that its posts are organized based upon type of content rather than arbitrary categories and/or tags. This appealed to me and upon signing up I began to figure out how to innovativly utilize this new online “tool”. I eventually decided upon using it as another distribution point for my blog as recently I had been posting just images or very short text only posts and didn’t want them clogging up or distracting from the interesting article posts so these short posts would go on tumblr and everything else would go on the blog. This works for me and as I just post image or text only tumblr posts I decided to have them primarily shown on my blog and syndicated on tumblr so I could continue my involvement with the community there, a result of that has been the development of a tumblr plugin for wordpress so no I don’t believe that tumblr should be restricted to any one single idea, it is just another medium, channel of distribution, tool or what ever you choose to label it and I have used it in my own unique way just like many others have.

With all that said, I would like to see a trunication of posts in the dashboard so it doesn’t get clogged up with huge tumblrs, showing the first 300 or so words from the post with the option to view more would be useful and that was my original point although looking back I can see I didn’t put it across very well, or at all by the looks of it…

aatw: pp_us_03.jpg (Imagem JPEG, 400x570 pixels) I actually...

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:55:48 +0000

aatw:

pp_us_03.jpg (Imagem JPEG, 400x570 pixels)

I actually quite like cottage cheese….

I wonder...

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:41:17 +0000

What the total number of human working hours are wasted browsing pointless websites on the Internet… and if it’s better than them being wasted in front of a tv.

ben: via i29.tinypic.com

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:16:40 +0000

ben:

via i29.tinypic.com

Image Board Fixed

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:07:27 +0000

It took me five minutes to fix something that had been broken for almost a year, I had been baffled why it had broken in the first place before I read about php’s updates. Silly developers moving date functions about… Still www.photogabble.co.uk/projects/images/ now works.

This is a screen shot of a project I worked on a while ago,...

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:03:04 +0000

This is a screen shot of a project I worked on a while ago, anonymous image uploading with the latest 100 being viewable on the front page. This was before I discovered the chan boards which are a little similar except instead of tagging images you annotate them. I wonder if I should revive this just for old times sake?

Say NO to long tumblr posts.

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:29:38 +0000

I’m slightly confused over why people feel the need to post long text posts in tumblr, don’t we have blogs for such things? I see tumblr as being the next stage up from twitter in the micro blogging world, where if a post is too short or too insignificant for a blog you post it to your tumblr. Maybe tumblr has moved on from this to become the next wordpress.com where people can come and host their blog advert free for free, either way I find it an annoyance to have my dashboard cluttered by excessively long posts. BTW I consider anything over say 300 words to be too long for tumblr, a post of that length really deserves to be posted to your blog. Then again, I could be wrong, would be nice to start a discussion on this subject.

According to the pub quiz last night...

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:12:41 +0000

Supermarkets are the most favorite location for a family day out at the weekends. What a sad, sad bunch of people we all are if that’s our idea of a fun family day out!

An update and news of tumblr wordpress plugin.

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:33:29 +0000

Hey everyone, this is just a quick update to let people who visit here know that I haven’t abandoned you all but have instead been loaded with an amazingly huge amount of university work which has to come first on my list of priorities. I have emailed a ton of people back whom are interested in the tumblr wordpress plugin as well as the one I have written for zenphoto to wordpress, I shall be continuing with these plugins next week once I have handed in all the work I need to complete for this week. So yes, I am still active, just about and once I have the time I shall be back to regular posting soon.

More on a tumblr-wordpress plugin.

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:13:13 +0000

With all that has been happening recently I have hardly had time to work on the tumblr-wordpress plugin, it is currently functional just not to an extent to which I feel happy about letting it loose to the wild Internet. By the time I am finished with it, it will automatically distinguish between normal text posts and image posts namely by searching the post for an image tag and then setting that image tags location as being the tumblr image post with any following text being the description. Keep on the look out for the first beta of the plugin being released soon, best ways is to subscribe to either my tumblr feed or my blog feed, in either case they are both the same thing ;)

Marios afterlife.

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:06:07 +0000

This illustration by Bill Mudron has been floating about the intertubes for a while now, i think that it’s pretty cool.

aatw: From an anonymous protest against Scientology. One guy...

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:51:14 +0000

aatw:

From an anonymous protest against Scientology.

One guy in a full-on V outfit made an announcement in a very dull and proper fashion that none of us could hear properly. We were busy heckling him (anonymous has no problem with criticising anonymous), when he reaches the end of his speech and presses play on a boombox.

RICK ASTLEY: NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP (Ed: woo!)

The crowd went fucking wild.

500 people rick-rolling the UK Scientology head office. It was at this point I saw the corners of the cops’ mouths twitch into smiles as they realised it was ok: we were from the internets.
via nostrich Ed: Lol.

Homesick.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:10:09 +0000

I have one question for you to answer, how can someone feel homesick when they are home? The only answer I can give for this question, itself questions our definition of home and of course home is “where the heart is” but what does that mean? It is an interesting thing to ponder, we all make homes for ourselves, many leave those homes when they reach a certain age and make a home for themselves but don’t each of us have a strong connection with that home which we where brought up in? I could never understand why people got home sick, I myself was quite happy out and about traveling and seeing how other people lived. I am an avid people watcher and while a lot of human behavior is understood as I myself posses similar manorisms I could never understand homesickness. I think I do now, and it also answers my questioning of what makes a home. A home is indeed where your heart is, but what if your heart is split between two places? With all your friends in one location and the one you love and your family in another. How do you make sense of the confliction between wanting to stay and wanting to leave? I do sometimes feel homesick, I am not saying it’s due to the aforementioned, its more a tugging missing of people rather than a particular place and in my case I bounce about from location to location enough to make sure I get to see everyone I miss. I suppose for those who suffer from homesickness all the time I have been given a taste of your conflict. I do not envy you for what you go through, but on the other hand I am happy in the knowledge that to feel homesick you have to care for people, or is it a selfish emotion? I don’t know, however it does make me feel better to think that it does mean I care. For once certain emotions make sense, I guess you have to feel first to be able to understand second.

A crazy idea...

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:56:16 +0000

This is suck a fucking crazy idea… I am not tired in the slightest so I have decided to pack up my things now and drive home at 5am… I have yet to sleep this is almost 24hours awake and I am not tired, this is not normal! Shall probably end up sleeping in a motorway service station, but it shall be fun. I should get home for 7am just in time to get to bed haha.