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Sweetcron

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Chris
on August 11, 2008
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As some of you may know, I’m looking and doing who knows what with this blog. Last night I came across this blog which is more of a lifestream, but incorporates the blog as well. It scrapes your data from other sites like twitter and flickr and posts them to your blog/lifestream. The site is running Sweetcron which is yet to be released.

I’m going to have a look at Sweetcron when it is released, and if I like it and it works for me and this site, I’ll change this site over to it.

Of course, if there is a way of doing this is WordPress, that would be good too.

Future of cjsimmons.net??

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Chris
on July 29, 2008
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The whole blogging thing has sorta come to an end for me. I don’t seem to blog much at all anymore. I’m considering removing this blog and maybe putting up a static page with some links to social sites that I use, like Facebook, flickr, twitter, etc.

The other option that I have is to make a static page, and then maybe a small journal. Something like a tumblog.

I haven’t come to a decision yet, and I’m currently 50/50 on these two choices. What are peoples thoughts about doing this? Any other ideas or solutions??

Oh, I’m going to keep this domain as I us it for my primary email, and there are a few email account associated with it.

RSS is working again

Published
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Chris
on June 13, 2008
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I noticed today that my feed wasn’t being updated in Google Reader, so I decided to investige the problem. It turned out that the wp-rss2.php file was showing an empty feed, though the /feed/ link was fine. I have since changed feedburner to read the /feed/ link, and now it should all be fine.

Anyone else having this problem can see here for more information about this.

Hey look, it’s a post!!!

Published
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Chris
on June 4, 2008
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Yes, this is a blog post. I’m still alive and haven’t fallen of the fact of the Earth. Over the last day or so, I’ve been thinking about how this blog has been going to waste, so I’ve decided, over time, that I’m going to start to implementing some new things here. I’m not sure what, but something. Any ideas, would be great, but so far I’m liking the flow that Ben has.

I have a few sites that I’v signed up with like flickr, twitter, etc, that I don’t really use that much, so I’m planing on starting to use these services more, and possible try to integrate them here.

In other news, I’m now the proud owner of a Nokia N95 8GB. So far this is a great phone, and I’m loving what it can do, especially the inbuilt GPS and Wi-fi.

Back to 2 colums

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Chris
on January 9, 2008
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As much as I have loved the single column layout provided by K2, I have found it to be rather annoying having to scroll to the bottom all the time, and I have grown to love my sidebar, so I have gone back to the default 2 columns. This also allows me to show a few things on my sidebar when someone visits this blog like my Facebook status and my Xbox Live gamercard.

I ♥ K2

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Chris
on January 4, 2008
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Since I came across the K2 theme for WordPress back in the day when it was still in Beta 1, I haven’t used any other theme. Since then, I’ve learnt a heap about CSS and PHP, though I still have a long way to go, but I have managed to do a few mods and hacks to my blog over the years. One mod that I’ve been wanting to do is a single column layout with possible some content on the bottom. I’ve tried over the years to do this, but I always seem to loose interest and don’t end up doing anything.

Today I installed the latest release of K2, Release Candidate 3, and to my surprise in the settings there was an option for 1 column. I tried this out and instantly thought, that’s what I’ve been wanting!! The other good thing is that having this built into K2 is that I can now use the K2 module system for the sidebars.

I don’t know how long this single column feature has been implemented into K, but it was a nice surprise.

Restarting… New blog in 3… 2… 1…

Published
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Chris
on January 2, 2008
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Ah, here we go.

First of all, I’d like to apologise for anyone that has come here looking for something specific. The old database for my blog has started to get a tonne of errors, so I decided it was time to start fresh. The old database has lasted since day one when I started this site, and has seen 3 different servers in it’s time.

I’m planning on going through a backup of my database and collecting some of my more usefull posts and adding them back into this blog, as well, as a few visual changes, but for now we will have to live with what’s here for now.