Yeah so . . . uhhh . . .

This whole blogging thing . . . not going so well. :-P I've tried this a few times now and I do it for a few weeks and then it kinds peters out. I have a live journal I don't use much any more either.

I guess I kinda feel like all the personal stuff I could blog about . . . is too personal (I'm actually pretty private that way :-P ) and would just sound like a bunch of whining and complaining. And all the cool interesting news I could blog about I have usually read on other blogs or websites and is usually on my google reader shared page, which is linked here anyway on the side. So what exactly am I supposed to be blogging about??

Plus I do use twitter and have facebook so there are micro blogging things that take up most of the rest of the topics I could blog about with status updates and tweets.

So yeah, I guess I just suck at blogging. :-( Which is strangely disappointing.

Hell I doubt if anyone is even reading this anyway. :-P

But if you are, have a great weekend.

Bloggity blog

So webcomics . . . huge fan. I love 'em. I've always thought the idea of doing my own would be really cool, except for the fact that I can't draw worth crap (ironic for a draftsman eh?) and I haven't got any particular story to tell. Not exactly conducive to great works of creativity.

I suppose the first step would be to keep track of things that make me LOL. Write them down as material for future reference.

Another thing would be to come up with an art style. Obviously it doesn't have to be fancy. Stick figures/simple artwork work pretty well for some comics. Gods above know I'm way better with computers than with pen or pencil so I'd probably try and photoshop something together.

Hah! Maybe I should use my stuffed polar bear collection as characters . . . but then I'd need some kind of set. :-P Still that'd be pretty cool.

Anyway . . . so yeah twitter is still borked, kinda, sorta. Been a pretty quiet morning. I haven't even got Twhirl on. It kept getting paused for exceeding the request limit, which it couldn't have. Unless they dropped it right down to nothing while the system "recovers". Oooooh. Perhaps we should send the DB flowers and get well cards. Maybe that would help?

That's about all the randomness I've got in me for now.

C.

twitter + Greasemonkey = WIN!

So if you're using Firefox there is a cool extension called Greasemonkey that allows you to run javascript snippets independently of the web page your on. It's great for customizing sites like facebook and myspace to work exactly the way you want. The site where you can find these custom scripts to use is called userscripts.org. It happy fun times! Go check out!

Anyway for some reason I have neglected up until now to go check for scripts to mess around with twitter . . . silly me! There are quite a few so I'm just going to list the ones I tried out and thought were useful and cool. :-) Depending on how these turn out I may even stop using twhirl . . . :-D

Endless Tweets!
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24398
Loads older tweets endlessly when you're scrolling on a Twitter timeline. Bonus feature: Quotably.com integration.
Features:
1. Preloading of next page when you scroll down;
2. When on personal home page, only preload next pages until you reach the last read tweet (after which automatic loading stops);
3. Add icons that link to Quotably.com conversation for each tweet;
4. Sort friends in the sidebar by screen name;
5. A notifier that informs you of updates to this script.

Twitter Unread Marker
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/23229
Marks Twitter tab with the number of unread messages

Twitter Highlight
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12240
Highlights tweets that are to you in your timeline (i.e. tweets that start with @your_username).

Twitter - Timeline Filter
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/20614
Dynamically filter items in timelines

Twitter Live Updater
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/21946
Updates live the home/replies/public timeline in twitter without the need of browser refresh. Install this userscript and go to http://twitter.com/home and see it in work. Updates the timeline once every minute.

TwitterIgnore
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25365
Script to let you ignore people in your recent Tweet list without removing them from your follow list. They'll still show up in any feeds and whatnot, but your main Twitter home screen will be devoid of their guff.

So all was good until I tried Twitter Ignore, the one I most wanted to work. Unfortunately it didn't. :-P I still included it in the list because I like the idea and I left a comment on the author's script page telling him it didn't work for me. Maybe he'll be able to fix it or tell me what I did wrong.

I don't think I'll use the Twitter Live Updater that much, though it does work well. Twhirl is more appropriate for that I think. For the live update to really be useful you need to be ON your twitter home page. If you're surfing around or doing something not in the browser it doesn't help much.

The other scripts all work great and the Timeline Filter is awesome! :-D So if you want to have some fun messing around with your twitter home page give these a try. Greasemonkey FTW!

C.

Alright who broke twitter!?

It's been a very odd day today with twitter being so quiet. I've only been getting a trickle of tweets from a handful of people. I've felt an odd sense of disconnection. Luckily they are working on it now. :-)

I kinda wish I had gone out tonight, but I also don't regret not going. I wasn't really in the mind space for it. I do miss seeing a few people though.

Definitely need more friends though. Too bad I can't hang out with some of the awesome folks on twitter that I follow.