Now that I am back at bod with my nice plain walls I have got back into the video news updates for some of my fansites. I’ve recorded new ones for the four sites that I do them for and should have them uploaded by tomorrow.
One thing about being a developer whether you work for a multi-national corporation like Microsoft or whether you run websites in your spare time, there will be one fact that remains true across it all – you’ll be really lazy and hate having to do repetitive tasks.
That’s why people come up with all these little applications and scripts to make things faster. Such as my script to transfer all my posts from pLog into WordPress. I could have transfered them manually and it probably wouldn’t have taken that much longer but it’s more fun to write a script.
One I have just finished on is to generate the linkage for my new blogs. Stuff like Movie Steak in between every second post there is linkage to stuff on all the other blogs, that was the idea behind the network. But until now I had to go round each site and get athe stories and URLs. Now with the script I have you just click on what blog you want to post to and it will go through all the RSS feeds and get the latest stories from the other blogs.
It’s not perfect – it will use duplicate stories and could potentially include linkage as a story and also I normally add the word review to reviews from the movies and music blogs which it doesn’t do but then I can always add that in my hand as it outputs to a textarea so I can modify the output before copy and pasting it.
The only other issue I have had is that the output of the RSS feed causes problems with the ‘s. They are output differently by WordPress and although it claims to be UTF-8 I have set my XML parser to that encoding and it produces some wierd results.
I feel like I have been neglecting my blog a bit recently. I’ve been pretty wrapped up in getting back into World of Warcraft and the various other things I’ve been doing that I haven’t posted in days.
Somehow my Chrismukka holidays turned out to be quite hectic considering they were suppose to be the resting period before going at it again. Still maybe once I get back into the routine of things, everything will settle down.
I moved back into Bodington today, indeed I’m only really finishing unpacking now. I can’t believe how much stuff I managed to pile up on my floor last night, I had endless amounts of bags and that was before I packed away my computers and other electronics.
OMG! I’ve never been in a queue before. Never. And now there is a queue on Turalyon of all places. My baby! Turalyon is my server dammit, other people should only be allowed on at my discretion.
I have an estimated wait of 3 minutes. This is not going to do at all. We need some hippies to move to a different server. Why now? The wait is up to 4 minutes. This is outragous. This is lawsuit worthy? I mean did they think queues were a good idea? Because people are just going to moan about them on their blogs while they are stuck in them.
Well I’m back in WoW. My subscription expires on the 5th so I’m hoping I can cut myself off and get some revision done but I may have to renew it again. I really want a horse! 18 gold away. I also have loads of X-Files to watch. I ordered series 1 and that should arrive tomorrow plus I took my duplicate Chrismukka presents back to Virgin today and ended up with £38 of vouchers so I got series 3 which was down from £30 to £20 which is a kick ass price as they are £30 each on Play.com.
Just gone through the first half of the alphabet worth of domains in my RegisterFly account correcting the whois. Will do the second half later. Sometime today I also have to decide what I am going to do with all my Klingon domains. I should probably let them expire but I love all my domains, I just don’t think I can do it.
On December 26th WordPress quitely released version 2.0. They don’t seem to have mentioned it on the main site but the download page has it and on the Planet WordPress blog they mention it but they don’t really go into details so I’m uploading it now to have a play around with it on my new site.
It also appears to have the Akismet spam plugin at least shipping with it, if not already installed.
I’m toying with an idea for a new site that’s basically along the line of Lieing News. It’s like an entertainment news blog except all the stories on it are complete BS. It’s so much earier than reporting real news. Actually it’s harder as you can’t just copy it off MSNBC and it needs to be a little funny, but still.
