• Why I don’t feel guilty about walking away in the middle of conversations
• Dammit, I’m getting haiku’d on IRC
• I have a way with bots
• Nightmares of the web 2.0 generation <– if you only read one of these, pick this one
• The truth about hitting it big
• It’s all about the metadata

Or you could always browse the chats category to see all of them.  =]

Unfortunately, I did lose some email…so if you sent me anything important in the last few days and I haven’t replied, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to resend.

After today, I’ve decided to stop syndicating my entries to my livejournal account for several reasons:

1. I changed my domain from techslut.net to sophistechate.com, so it’s a good time to change shit anyway.
2. I’m integrating my tumblelog with my regular blog, so the frequency of posts will greatly increase. If people want to subscribe to this new feed, I’d rather them opt-in than annoy a bunch of people who eventually decide to opt-out.
3. Having too much duplicate content screws up google rankings. I used to automatically syndicate from techslut.net to my own livejournal account and another wordpress blog, but since “techslut” has naughty words in it, that site was getting heavily penalized. Other factors may have been involved, but limiting my posts to only one domain helped the matter greatly.
4. I never use the livejournal features any more for my own content, and even the most graceful means of managing comments between the two systems still proved to be kludgy. I’m still subscribed to a whole bunch of other lj users’ feeds, though…so I’m not going away.
5. I’m also getting rid of openid authentication in wordpress, because it is obnoxious and never worked as easily as everyone said it would.

So, here’s the two feeds people may be interested in:

• http://www.sophistechate.com/feed – All of the content on sophistechate.com. This includes regular blog posts plus the content from my tumblelog – twitter updates, quotes from sites I’m reading, lots of images, witty chat logs, and the occasional oddball video. Posts tend to be short, to the point, and easy to digest (which is why I prefer tumblelogs in the first place). Frequency is somewhere between 5-10 posts per day.
• http://www.sophistechate.com/category/blog/rss – Blog posts only, which are much longer and in depth. Frequency averages less than 1 post per week, but does tend to come in spurts.

If any paid or permanent account holders want to create syndicated accounts, please feel free. Just let me know so I can link them here.

So with all that said and done…I’m really really excited about the changes taking place around here lately. The summer season kicked off with a bang with San Diego’s first Barcamp, which totally energized my creativity for my photography work and general project ideas. I was interviewed and published in an honest to god real magazine. And best of all, I’m almost ready to announce a super exciting project that a friend and I have been working on for the past few months. I’m also going to make my first trip to San Francisco next week for WordCamp, and will be going to Defcon a couple of weeks after that (and maybe Blackhat, but that remains to be decided). Conventions make me super motivated and excited to the point of being overwhelmed, but it’s a kind of crack I doubt I could live without. =]

For years I’ve wanted to do something with the amusing crap I discover and link other people to each day. I recently discovered lifestreams and thought that was what I wanted, so for the past several weeks I’ve been toying off and on with trying to get one set up. I tried everything from quickly-hacked php scripts to yahoo pipes, but none of these solutions stirred me.

Then I discovered tumblelogs. I felt like the bee girl from No Rain. Talk about finding your creative element.

Instead of being a passive list of places you’ve visited, where the interesting content is beyond the link itself, tumblelogs create more of a rich-media experience by allowing you to quickly post the most interesting snippet of a website you read, embed the entire video you found on youtube, or even upload a picture from your cell phone. These are little bits of content that make up the internet experience, but are weak on their own. When posted as a tumblelog, this information creates a context that defines our interests and personalities.

A quick google search proved that tumblr is the tool to use for such things. The control freak in me was nervous trying a hosted service, but so far I have been pleasantly surprised. Elated, even. Tumblr allows for complete creative control, even going as far as enabling you to set up custom domain names. And posting content is blissfully simple via the site or bookmarklet. You can even set up other rss feeds to import automatically (like your flickr stream, mog/last.fm/pandora, wishlistr, etc). I would pay for this service. Happily.

Soooo….yeah. Now that I’ve got the big soapbox speech out of the way, let me present my new tumblelog: tumblelog.techslut.net. Seamlessly integrated into wordpress with a bit of a custom theme, and very very squishy. I expect it will mainly end up being a bunch of quotes, but I could prove mysef wrong. It will most certainly be a lot more active than my regular blog. If you want to keep track of these updates, feel free to add my rss feed.

My apologies if anyone got annoyed by my photostream when I was constantly reuploading the same picture (with minor EXIF changes) during troubleshooting. Your suffering has gone towards the greater good.

If anyone is interested, here’s a link to my v0.6.9 falbum.class.php file that goes by the posted date.

I’m ready to redo the openid implementation, hell…I don’t like the whole comment moderation system at all. But other than that, I’m quite pleased with my wordpress to wp/lj syndication system. Now if myspace only had some sort of API…

Fun fact: According to my phone, I have spent over two days of my life playing solitaire in the bathroom.

Dan got us a pair of DS Lites for Christmas, and I am eagerly awaiting reviews of the M3 Simply homebrew device so that I can have a new project. We haven’t been able to find a Wii yet. *pout*

Also, I am now here: adora.1up.com.

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EDIT: Adding Mog.

Tags: falbum, Flickr, myspace, wordpress

/me does a little dance

Admit it, you love me. =]

EDIT: Testing an edit through wordpress…this should be automatically reflected on livejournal.

It’s mostly working, just gotta fix how the comments link is being generated.

Stage 3: get perl script running to keep both pages and comments synchronized.

And damn me for posting over 400 entries without subject lines that now have to be updated. *snort*

Considering changing journal name to techslut…

• Blogroll links (that category isn’t even named blogroll…something’s borked in the database)
• Nav bar looks like shit
• Everything in IE looks like shit (two CSS files)
• Comments page looks like shit

To add:

• Calendar
• Tagboard
• Take out activity
• Change the search to do that thing where there’s no submit button
• Still not sure about the header graphic, but I have a shitload of them to choose from
• Add antipixel images

And I need to add a gallery, chat, and import some old static pages from notadora.com.

I have to get up in three hours. Bye.

Test this. I can’t get it to save the word positions, but I know it’s updating the database with the oher information (time and ip). I think it’s a browser thing.

www.techslut.net/fridge

Right now mine says:
Random networking kills the matrix
when does a mobile buffer
belong to a girl

I’ve already been told it doesn’t work in firefox. All the magnets take forever to download though, so the link isn’t really dialup friendly.

And this was just cool, so I threw it up. It makes me feel less cranky about not getting the rasterbator to work: www.techslut.net/ascii