This had me laughing uncontrollably. Brilliant stuff..
So I'm thinking about moving my personal blog to my own domain, alex.leonard.ie, for no major reason but it feels like it's the right thing to do.
I've had a few people mention the fact that they have to join vox to comment here, and I don't want to think that I'm excluding anyone ;)
Also, I have that domain name sitting their idle and it feels like a waste.
So I went looking for a method of exporting my blog posts from Vox and lo and behold one doesn't exist. It's a bit of a shame - I didn't realise my posts would be locked in here, so I'm faced with two options.
Neither option is ideal really, as I don't know when option 1 might happen, and option 2, well, copying and pasting over 200 blog posts might take a while..
Any suggestions anyone? I'd be planning on keeping this vox account so that I can comment on my neighbours vox's, but other than that I think I'd be doing everything else over on my own domain, and would love to see some people from vox drop a comment in on occassion!
This had me laughing uncontrollably. Brilliant stuff..
I have to say that I found this very amusing..
I found it here: http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2008/04/11/5009
However they don't seem to know where it came from originally!
You may or may not care about this, but as a designer this is definitely important to me.
Taken from http://www.email-standards.org/gmail-appeal
By the way, my ugly mug is the very last one in the video.
Huzzah! Bertie Ahern, head of the Irish government, has resigned. He's a crook, and should never have lasted as long in power as he did.
You can watch RTE's news reports about it here: http://www.rte.ie/live/
I found his brother's comment amusing, on being asked what he thought of Bertie's decision to resign:
I would think he definitely is not right in the decisions he makes - that decision he made to accept £450,00 in brown envelopes was probably pretty wrong.
He's usually right in the decisions he makes
Show us something you're allegic to.
This is the only thing I'm aware of - the problem is that it's really small and I can't avoid it when it's around...
In honor of Johnny Appleseed Day, show us a tree.
Well, it might not be king, based on how much usage I get from it, but PicLens is definitely a beauty to play around with, and it's functional too.
I've written a full write-up on my business blog, so I won't repeat it verbatim here, but if you're interested in my ramblings, check out:
http://www.pixelapes.com/2008/03/11/pic-lens-best-browser-extension/
Otherwise, just go to Mozilla's site and install the extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/5579
Obviously, you're going to need Firefox as your web browser to test this out - but why would you use anything else!
Whilst it feels a little strange blogging about Word Press on one of Six Apart's blogging tools (especially given Anil Dash's reasonably nasty competitive post about Word Press), I don't feel disinclined to mention it.
I love Word Press. I've been using it heavily for all manner of projects over the past few years for all manner of clients of ours over at Pixelapes Web Design. It's been an excellent learning experience and I've found out how to bend Word Press to all sorts of applications.
Apparently Word Press 2.5 was due out yesterday, with a large amount of the update being focussed on a complete redesign of the admin area. Unfortunately the tentative date hasn't come through so I'm left waiting a little longer. I'm hopeful it will be soon as I'm really quite excited about this update and think it will make a big difference to my usage of Word Press.
Roll on Word Press!
I came across this poem I haven't read in years and found myself loving it once again. Figured I'd post it up here for the sake of nothing but spreading it around some..
in other words
by charles bukowski
the Egyptians loved the cat
were entomed with it
instead of with the women
and never with the dog
but now
here
good people with
good eyes
are very few
yet fine cats
with great style
lounge about
in the alleys of
the universe.
about
our argument tonight
whatever it was
about
and
no matter how unhappy
it made us
feel
remember that
there is a
cat
somewhere
adjusting to the
space of itself
with a delightful
grace
in other words
magic persists
without us
no matter what
we may try to do
to spoil it.
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