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More Alps and Flickr

Clouds over the Alps

For those interested I have uploaded some more photos to Flickr you can see them on my photo stream here.

I have also added the standard Flickr photo badge to the side bar of my site, as I attempt to push more content through this blog. It's only a start but I realised after playing with plaxo that it's essentially what my blog should be. What is the point of having a blog but then also having lots of other micro blogs, photos, music, links in other places. I appreciate that if your blog is mostly your business then you may not want your twitters on it, but for me my blog is a place to muck about. So really everything should be here.

I like the way people like Simon Willison include everything in their blog. Sure you get a lot of update, but that's the point of a blog right, that's the point of categories... I aim to allow people to subscribe to my written blog (this) as normal, but then also subscribe to links I post on del.icio.us, my flickr photos, things I Digg, shared stuff in Google Reader and perhaps Last.fm summaries (if they update it for the iPhone!!!). I initially started doing this with Elsewhere and links although I don't think anyone notices them or reads them, so giving them a prominent placing would make more sense.

Something that started bugging me the other day was a feature I think is lacking in Flickr. I realised I could send photos from my iPhone via email, although I don't like the fact they appear in my photo stream. What I want to do is remove these photos from my stream or have one stream for real photos and one for mobile image blogging. I guess however I can play about with tags and groups, although it would be nice to have more control over the stream than editing dates :( Anyone have a solution for this?

Long time no updates

Recently I have been going through bouts of posting and then not posting. I find myself saying I shouldn’t post this now as I have already posted today, I’ll save it for tomorrow, and then suddenly I find I haven’t posted in 2 weeks… So what’s been keeping me busy, well I have quite a valid [...]
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Pixelbox 2.0 (beta)

So here it is… finally… I have got the version 2 beta of this blog out! It all started a long time ago when I tried to make my own theme, and became utterly frustrated with the over complicated spaghetti code that riddles wordpress. Don’t get me wrong wordpress is great, a fantastic blogging tool, [...]
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Pixelbox is global

I noticed in my incoming links the other day that come chap called Chui-Wen Chiu has posted my Apollo custom chrome example in Chinese. After fisihing around on google translate I managed to figure out he was just translating my comments and doing a bit of a walk through of my code (rather than [...]
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Social Networking, the lesser of two evils...

Recently a number of my friends have started joining social networking sites, mainly myspace, as a way of wasting time at work I guess. Really there is no point in these sites other than meeting up with old acquaintances, who if you really liked you would have stayed in contact with anyway and seems only [...]
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