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A to do list…

simon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:06:01 +0000

Things I need to get done asap:

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!

Nom Nom Nom

simon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:17:54 +0000

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

The state of tumblr…

simon — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:37:08 +0000

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…

I wonder…

simon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:41:41 +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.

Image Board Fixed

simon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:07:53 +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 photogabble.co.ukprojects/images/ now works.

Old Projects.

simon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:03:24 +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.

simon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:30:02 +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…

simon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:13:05 +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!

Earthquake!

simon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:44:07 +0000

I am going to be the first on my dashboard to have tumbled about this, but we just had a massive (at least in my opinion) earthquake/tremor which has been reported to have been felt across six different countries. BBC News 24 just said that it was a 4.9 on the Richter scale and had its epicenter in Hull. I felt it where I am in Coventry, the entire room shook and freaked me out, my first earthquake… in England of all places!

An update and news of tumblr wordpress plugin.

simon — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:33:33 +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.