Something new.

Well, I’ve finally done it. I’ve written my own WordPress theme and made it exactly the way I want it. I *think* I’m finally happy with it.

The new design is simple and clean, yet fun and has little elements of ‘cool’ hidden throughout.

I also did some housecleaning on the back end with post categories and moved the site from shared hosting over to my own Cloud Server with Rackspace.

What an adventure.

Anyway, I’d have to say this is quite possibly the design that I am most proud of.

So, that said, check it out, kick the tires (gently) and let me know through through the comments or contact page what’s not working.

Oh yeah, and hopefully I’ll actually write some stuff to go here someday, too.

if you can't beat them, beat them with sticks

what happens when you have a great idea and somebody else comes up with the same idea at approximately the same time? frustrating..

so today, in an ironic feat of web-searchification, while working on my very own foto:blip, i discovered a lovely little app that does nearly the same thing as foto:blip. note, nearly.

clearly i’ve been beaten to the punch in providing a way to use photos instead of words to share the play by play of your life.

so what to do now? beat them with sticks!

the key differentiation that i see right now is that TwitPic (what a silly name) is a bolt-on application. it connects with the Twitter API and (sortof) extends the functionality of Twitter. not a bad idea at all. Twitter has a large and growing userbase. but, i believe that what is really needed to take the next step with microbloggery is to have a completely new application which is built from the ground up to work with images. while two Twitter add-on clients support TwitPic, allowing the posted photo to be viewed directly in the client, other venues such as the Twitter web site and the all-important Twitter Facebook application merely show a link to your photo posted via TwitPic. degrades nicely for those clients, but how will it bode for the visually-inclined user? not so well.

foto:blip has, from the very beginning, been designed to use photos as the users’ primary means of communication. to emphasize that point, photo captions are limited to a short 50 characters. we want users to communicate with their images. to do this, it is a necessity that every viewer can see the posted images alongside the caption.

i’ll be having a closer look at TwitPic shortly as I continue working on foto:blip. perhaps it will inspire me even more.

i think i'm in love

ok, so.. i’m really excited now about using word press..

finally i  can use a wysiwyg editor from within firefox.. amazing

so tonight was noah’s birthday party. yay 3!.. we had a fun time with all the friends and family who were there.

afterwards, tj, jenna, and i decided to visit media. sadly the town  is pretty dead. i must say that i’m a bit disenchanted with the prospect of living there indefinitely, now. ugh. where am i going to live? i’ll tell you one thing.. it’s going to be somewhere other than my parent’s house.  my sanity seems to be slowly slipping away. every move i make is questioned, and analyzed, and monitored. i just want to scream. as of yet, my refuge continues to be my bed. bluh. last weekend, i actually got tired of sleeping.. amazing.

enough.

bye.