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// April 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog
Just installed the Wordpress plugin for my iPhone. Now I can write some posts on the go. I’m not sure that it will mean I will be posting more often or not though, since I think Twitter will remain my quick hit method of choice.
// April 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog
With my new blog theme I decided to finally take the plunge and start moving my photos over to flickr. For awhile now on both this blog, and on the family blog at muchhutch.com I have been using a semi-hack I set up for Christine and I that uses blogger.com to allow us to post pictures from our iPhones and display them on the blogs’ sidebar. Basically these “mobile blogs” were obfuscated locations that we could grab a feed from and then using the KB Advanced RSS widget I’d take the contents of the Atom feed and display the last picture plus subject. I can still do this with the flickr feed and I can still email the photos from my iPhone, but the added benefit is that it works nicely with this new feed plus I can more easily use any camera. I’ll be making the switch on muchhutch.com for my feed soon, and then work on convincing Christine to do the same.
// April 9th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blog
Since Thursdays are normally my work-from-home days, and since I am on PTO this week, I decided to “work” on my blog and installed and customized a new theme. This blog finally is looking how I want it to. It has the general grungy-green appearance I longed for, the lifestream stuff going on, and can now handle all the media stuff I post. The best part was that instead of hacking it all together myself and spending a week on it, I spent only a couple of hours (mostly image editing) since it is a Woo Theme.
// October 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // Blog
I spent some time the last couple of days updating the theme to this blog. I decided to start completely from scratch in an attempt to achieve exactly what I am aiming for. At this point, it is still very much a work in progress, but the idea is to have this blog represent an actual timeline of my networked online presence.
The overall look and feel is somewhat inspired by comments from Jason @ 37signals regarding The Price is Right:
There’s really so much to learn from The Price is Right. Simplicity, experience, clarity, intuition, big type, fun, colors, tone, personality, democracy, audience participation, a little bit of chaos, humility, dings (you win) and buzzers (you lose), educating the consumer, etc. it’s quite a formula. Instead of reading that business book next week just watch the Price is Right instead. You’ll learn more and have a better time too.
Right now I have Twitter working inline. I’m finishing up getting links from del.icio.us in there too. From there, who knows. It’d be a lot simpler to just grab the sidebar widgets, but I wanted something different aesthetically.
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