Blogging
New look, new feel
Things have changed quite a bit on here, largely because of the change in nature of my blog, and the sort of stuff I’m writing about, as well as the fact that I am not adding as much content as I used to.
I have switched theme from my pretty heavily modded Contempt – which was a shame in a way, because I especially liked my rotating header images – to Hemingway, which displays stuff in a quite different way. It’s also cool because we are having a reading from A Farewell to Arms at the wedding! I like it, but it is going to take a bit of tweaking here and there to get it looking just how I want it. I’ve also personalised the title of the site a bit, and used one of my favourite quotes as the sub-header. It’s from Gore Vidal, by the way.
While I am talking about themes and stuff, I must pass on the Firefox theme Mostly Crystal, which is excellent!
Cutting back
I’ve had to have a bit of a review of my online life since I started my new job. I simply haven’t got the time that I used to for administering all the sites I have managed to become involved with – at least to the extent that I used to.
So, I am going to cut down on my blogs. This one is going to have to have the non-tech life stuff in again, rather like davebriggs.net did. The problem is really that coming up with tech stuff takes time – time spent reading hundreds of blogs, often checking in several times a day to see if anything new is in, following up links and stories, testing software and services. I just don’t have the time to do that anymore, and the lifeblogging will at least be a quicker and more readily available source of content. This means that World of Dave will be dying soon, though I might look at importing the posts into this blog.
I’m also coming across some interesting stuff in my new job, and so I might like to post about that.
This should mean I have the time to start looking at Palimpsest more regularly again, which is important to me as it is a great site, and easily my most successful. I might look into spending a bit more time developing Goal Mouths with Stewart, and Impnet with Chris.
I also had the idea for an interesting photoblogging project, but that will take up a fair bit of time to set up and I’m not sure how much interest there will be in it. Then there is all made up, which is all set and raring to go, but for which I need to get a back log of stories for before I go live.
Gah! So much to do, so little time!
Living Without Microsoft…
…has been given a bit of a face lift. Last week, Quentin and I finally bumped into each other in IM-land and between us upgraded to WordPress 2.02, installed a modified K2 theme, installed all the various plug-ins that make WordPress so much fun, and also installed a punBB forum and integrated it into the overall theme.
Now for the tricky bit: getting the content sorted and getting people engaged.
Un-Made-Up
Un-Made-Up is a great little blog just started by the journalist and author William Shaw. It features true stories submitted by readers, all under 1,000 words long. Well worth a look.