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Tag / internet
Aug
3
2009
0You see, it’s a lightsabre with a saver lamp bulb in it hence “lightsaver” do you see what they did there?
“LightSaver” – Nerdy, Parody, Pop Culture, Funny T-shirt by Matthijs Smit.
Mar
5
2009
1This morning I discovered a new way of posting comments to blogs. JS-Kit Comments is a whizzy web 2.0, completely buzzword compliant way of allowing users to post comments on blog posts. If you are a WordPress blog user it is a snap to install as there is a handy plug-in. The service allows readers of your site to log in using their Facebook or Yahoo! IDs making authentication for them easy. Moderation can be done on the JS-Kit site but the plug in play nice with Akismet too. There is also the beginnings of a reporting tool.
I’m trying it out for a while, I don’t get so many comments on the site so I figured if I try to make it easier for people then more may come.
Have you integrated JS-Kit on your site? Let me know your experience with it in the comments.
Integrating Comments into Blogger and WordPress @ JS-Kit Blog.
Feb
25
2009
2
Safari 4
Apple have made a public beta of the latest version of their Safari web browser available for download. It is a pretty thing indeed. There are a number of bells and whistles that we have seen before (it looks and feels a lot like Chrome). There are a number of new features like the ability to save a web page as an application a la Google Gears or Fluid (edit: although I have yet to find this function). There is also a start page not unlike Chrome or Opera that takes your history and shows you which sites you are going to the most. Pretty useful, not especially innovative but it it executed really well. I’m going to keep working with it for a while where I can. Note that I say where I can. (more…)
Feb
24
2009
4
Technorati no more like me
So I probably did a silly thing. Well in fact I think that the problem was that I did nothing for too long. I used to have this blog registered with Technorati in order to increase visbility. That was years ago. It didn’t seem to do much but that was more to do with the infrequency of my blogging I suspect. As I have got older I have become more lazy in this respect.
Anyway, it seems that Technorati have removed my blog. The URL has apparently been flagged in their systems. Why does this happen? A quick search on their site will tell you: (more…)
Dec
6
2008
0
Image "borrowed" from Tweetcrunch
I’ve been away a while gazing at my navel and wondering “what the hell?”, “why the hell?” and “who gives a fuck?” I came to no conclusions. I have been in the wilderness hunting for my own particular kind of agave that will bring me to my senses. Something did happen that pulled me up by my bootstraps, slapped me and apparently forced me to write exclusively in clichés. And it is very cool. More of that later.
I was also bitten by the Twitter bug. I signed up to this phenomenon months ago, used it twice and then forgot all about it. Somehow I came across it again, I think as a result of my recent iPhone acquisition (very happy about that too). Anyway, the little bird pecked at me until I could stand it no longer. I have been cyberstalking (at least that is how it feels) a bunch of individuals in various states of celebrity. I receive regular updates from TV stars, journalists, and a few folk I’ve never heard of. What’s it all about? Why am I bothering? Not sure, that is something for my analyst to answer. Whenever I get one that is.
I find the whole thing faintly voyeuristic. In a good way, if that it possible. It is “reality” Internet. It’s like watching Celebrity Big Brother in text form. Stephen Fry tells me of his little trip to the shops to get a transformer, Greg Grunberg posts photos from the set of “Heroes”, and Warren Ellis is charmingly belligerent. I’m sure it will lose its sheen after a while but for now I’m tweeting like mad with all my new buddies. OK so only Stephen Fry has actually bothered to add me as a friend so far, but it is early days yet. I’m still finding my way around. I still can’t settle on which application to use. More of that next time.
Follow me @marcaprice
Jun
9
2008
0So today I returned to WordPress for my own site. How fickle am I? Well I figured that Drupal was not really a blogging tool and that I should use horses for courses. I still (at the moment) use Drupal for thecontrast.net. This is my first post. I’m still using Ecto to post and I am glad that I did in the past too. I was able to easily migrate all my old posts to the new site because I had lovely local copies of them. 
Today is also exciting because the new iPhone should be announced today. With any luck this new 3G appliance will be available in the Netherlands.
Nov
2
2007
0I guess that I can be kind of lazy sometimes. So when I come across a tool that it supposed to make life easy how can I not give it a try? I am something of a geek when it comes to gadgets so when learned that the old Firefox blogging aid Performancing had been renamed and relaunched as ScribeFire I had to give the fella a try.
So far so good, it seems to play a lot nicer than the old plugin. Formatting the page is made so much easier. Particularly if, like me, you use a CMS like Drupal that can sometimes be a little painful to use. I rejoice at having smart tags and the ability to add images and Technocrati tags and Del.Icio.us bookmarks and trackbacks and so on. That said I haven’t tried to add images just yet. As I am such a fickle beast I may change my mind rapidly.
Today, as yesterday, I have been off work with a shitty horrible cold. It seems to be clearing up now but the extra time at home has given me the opportunity to play with this thing a while.
What other developments? Well, I have been populating my usually barren site with news from around the Internet by turning feeds from other sites into posts on mine. Cheating! No! The idea is to have content on my site that I want to read as well as my stupid and sometimes inane ramblings. The idea was to get me inspired to write something again after quite a long gap. Anyway, I use the Leech module for Drupal. This is how I can get such luminaries as Neil Gaiman to write for Bigger on the Inside. It is indeed comforting to know that wonderful writers such as Mr G also write ludicrously short blog posts.
So now I have no excuse to have good content on my site…right?
Related Links
ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging » Getting Started
ScribeFire plugin for Firefox
http://www.neilgaiman.com/