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Twitter Tools really puts the Pressure on!

Having Alex Kings Twitter Tools installed is great for letting your Twitter followers know when you have posted something new on your site - and in reverse, it is also really useful for making a blog post of your previous days twitterings, but …

… if you do have the “Create a daily digest blog post” turned on like I do, then the pressure to post something everyday really gets turned up to the MAX! As I think there is nothing more unsightly than having two days of Twitter Updates side-by-side! Yep I know I could turn it off or even delete the update posts - but that would be cheating… wouldn’t it?

Anyway, as you can tell - I have struggled to write something today and as a result I have had to write about something that is a bit trivial - mind you - Twitter Tools is cool and worth installing if you don’t have it.

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-29

• New Post: Apple Special Event Confirmed for the 5th September - http://tinyurl.com/37ybj5 - looks like new iPods are on their way! #
• Currently Browsing: http://www.purpleplates.com/ Interesting - is it magic? #
• Virtual police patrol China web http://tinyurl.com/299k6x #
• updating my sites robot.txt files #
• had to reset Safari 3.0.3 Beta after a very weird crash… #
• this is cool and makes me feel better - Piccadilly Circus ads stop working - http://tinyurl.com/2gv6f8 #
• cooking a roast dinner… #
• time to call it a night - goodnight #

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-28

• An interesting view of Twitter - is it just spam? http://www.twitterspam.com/ Have I just spammed by saying this on Twitter? #
• time to stop mindlessly surfing and start doing something productive… #

A Something and Nothing Day!

It has been one of those days for me today, I tried to write this morning, but kept finding myself being distracted by other things. When it happens it is damn hard to break out of it. If I catch myself free-falling early enough I can usually do something about it, but today wasn’t one of those times, so I decided to take a break and headed out of the house for the day.

On reflection it was probably the best thing I could have done, as I got thinking about Tumbled (my free Wordpress theme), and I think I should try and make it more Tumbleblog-like with separate styling for each category - links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video being the obvious ones - what do you think? Should I make it more, dare I say it… Web 2.0 ish?

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-27

• looking for a Font on www.Fonts.com #
• Enjoying a busy bank holiday; working on a website… #
• Alizasherman - if you want to host/serve your own ads, then check out http://openads.org it is free! #
• drinking coffee and having a think… #
• just created a Twitter Stream for updates to my Tumbled Theme http://twitter.com/tumbled #

Back from Wales (noisy on the Home Front?)

Beautiful, Wales on a nice sunny day click to enlarge

Well, I’m back! Miss me? Don’t answer that… It was fantastic weather in Wales (see above). And the break from the computer gave me some much needed time to think about some projects I have had in the back of my mind since I went travelling in Europe earlier this year. I also finished one book and started another that I had been carrying around for several weeks - so a good rest and catch up.

Right, notes, research and more notes… and strong coffee!!!

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-26

• back from Wales - an interesting few days, but I am now knackered! thanks John #

All quiet on the Home Front

It’s going to be a bit quiet around here for a few days as I’m off to Wales for the Bank holiday.

But before I go, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has shown interest in my first free Wordpress theme called Tumbled. It was downloaded over 40 times in the first day, and as many again after I released the update yesterday evening. Amazing!

Right, the camper van is loaded up, so it is time to hit the road… now where is that nice sunny weather we were supposed to be having today?

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-23

• logging off and going to bed - enjoy the day/night wherever you are #
• wondering how I can avoid doing the house-work! #
• hot and windy Riquochet - good to see the blue sky again though… #
• Just updated the Tumbled Wordpress theme - http://tinyurl.com/34k8h2 #
• calling it a night, so goodnight… #

Tumbled - A Wordpress Theme

Tumbled, a Wordpress theme.
click to enlarge

This is my first Wordpress theme I have made publicly available, and it’s not something I have had sitting around for ages either - I started it yesterday afternoon with the soul intention of making it purely for public release.

So here goes, I would like to introduce you to Tumbled, a single column, no nonsense theme loosely based on the popular Block style on Tumblr.

Yep, that’s right, you can now have that Tumblr look on your Wordpress blog.

I must warn that Tumbled is still a Beta, but rest assured I have tested it in Safari and Firefox on the Mac, and Internet Explore 6 and 7 plus Firefox on the PC. Everything seems to work fine, although there is a slight discrepancy with the navigation in IE 6 - there always something wrong in IE 6 though isn’t there!

NOTE: A problem was found where Smiley Faces inherited the default image styling! It is recommended that everybody downloads the latest version to avoid the visual unpleasantness - sorry about that!

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