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nick | January 4, 2009
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Things are a changing

Been fooling around with some stuff on the site the past few days.  Might notice some changes.

I noticed that WordPress had added much better inport/export features to their software since the last time I checked, and that I could combine my old blog with this one fairly easily.  So, combine them I have.  The content of this blog now goes back to ~10/02.  The content of the blog I had before that has long since been lost.  I think that one would have gone back to ~99.  Perhaps I’ll see if I can dig some of it up on the Wayback Machine someday.   The old blog site (8dot3.com) has been wiped out, and I’m working on installing Joomla over there.  I hope to use 8dot3 as a more static personal site, as opposed to here, which will remain just a blog.  I do have some cleanup to do here, as catagories have changed, so I’ll have to delete/merge them as needed.

So, thre’s not much over there yet, but I hope to have things tidyed up a bit in the next few weeks.  As I get my head about Joomla, that is.

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nick | December 3, 2008
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Nerdy Updates

Couple of cool propellor head type things I’ve found and played with in the 24 hours.

I’ve been looking for a way to intergrate some of the my OTHER blog like outposts on Internet into this blog.  Things like Twitter, Facebook, Flick, etc.  While looking for individual tools for each of those external feeds, I ran across Life Stream, which is a WordPress pluging that allows you to pull the updates from just about ANY other social network type feed you have, and intergrated them into the blog.  I’ve chosen to have a LifeStream in my sidebar, rather then choose the option to put them directly into the main blog feed.  It was very easy to install/implement, and supports everything that I wanted to intergrate (and about 2 dozen other feeds.)  It also will support plain jane RSS feeds, so there really is no limit to what you can intergrate.  I was REALLY happy to find a single solution, and one that seems to (so far) work very nicely.  Worth a gander, if you run a WordPress based blog.

The other toy is even COOLER, and probably will be very bad for me in the long run.  Amazon released Amazon Mobile for iPhone, and it’s a very nice little app.  It has the expected features, like 1-Click shopping and full access to your wishlist, shopping cart, and saved items.  But, it also has a neat feature called Remembers, which allows you to take a picture of an item, and it will upload the picture to Amazon, and attempt to identify and link to that item on Amazon.  I tested it with a can of Dust-Off Canned Air, and my Nortel 1140e VoIP phone, and it was able to identify and find each item in the store.  This is going to be VERY bad for me.  The ability to wander into a store, take a picture of something, and then 1-Click purchase it before I even leave the store will be the death of me.

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nick | May 8, 2008
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time to pop another virgin

Well, what do we have here?

Yeah, another attempt at the blog.

I’ve have have a couple of domains sitting around, so I got the idea that I’m going to use the different domains for different things.  I want to do a more static ‘who I am’ page, that also links to many of my other stuff (things that are hosted elsewhere.. netflix queues, wishlists, etc)  Sort of the ‘center’ of my online universe.  I think I’m going to use 8dot3 for that.  The old blog will still be there, but I’m going to stop using it, and just sort of leave it there for archiving.  So that people following those old links off google won’t be dunped into the ether of 404 land, and so I also don’t feel the need to move that crap onto this blog.  This one is a fresh start.

I also want to do soft of an accumulator.  Someplace I can pull all of my feeds, lists, etc together.  Something like a personal friendfeed.com  I’ll probably stick that over at dirtfeed.com.  I originally picked that up for a home-rolled rss reader, but google reader has become so good, it’s not worth trying to do it yourself anymore.

So, this is it.  Pretty bare bones, and it’s probably going to stay that way for the most part.  I might be adding some widgets and plugins to help make things work smoothly, so there might be some things moving around, or appearing or disappearing, but probably nothing drastic.  I’m going to have links to keep all of my sites pointed at each other.

I’m just looking forward to a clean start at tags and catagories.  Fun stuff… *eye roll*

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