Feb

9

2010

Twitter buh-bye!

Mmmmm. Okay, so on reflection I’m not particularly happy with just blatting my Twitter updates straight into my site’s feed. Don’t get me wrong – more content on here, no matter how puerile and flimsy is always going to be the goal but the problem was that my current theme isn’t particularly conducive to small scribbles of info as whole posts. The date and category boxes demand just a touch more meat on each bone and frankly, having the first 30 characters of the tweet as the title of the post looked downright naff (and damn hard to orchestrate into something meaningful when trying to already condense your thoughts into 140 characters). So for now it’s tata Twitter.

I did try out a number of different Twitter widgets which, I must say, on a different theme would be great but mine just tends to either break them or look remarkably wonky. If I had more than five minutes here and there free on such a problem, this might have pushed me over then edge and caused a whole new theme revision. But as it stands, I’ve simply not enough time so I’ve stripped out the plug-ins altogether.

One day I’ll revisit the whole situation but for now, if you want my Twitter-shaped bullets of bullshit, you’ll just have to get them from the source.

Tags / theme / tweet / Twitter / wordpress /

Feb

3

2010

The snow has been coming down …

The snow has been coming down again and it’s busy settling. Visions of sub-zero temperatures and more burst pipes… arggh! Do Not Want!

Tags / tweet / Twitter /

Jan

28

2010

And here’s the obligatory test…

And here’s the obligatory test post checking to see if my Twitter -> Wordpress shenanigans is still working after I set the plug-in going.

Tags / tweet / Twitter /

Jan

28

2010

Twitter Amalgamation – Super Special Bonus Banality!

For a while now I’ve been wondering how I could possibly make my site even more tediously inconsequential while still giving it the façade of a throbbing hive of activity. It was quite a head scratcher. Luckily, and as is usually the case, the intaweb was there to steal from inspire me! Twitter, of course!

A few months ago I laid claim to my very own Twitter account, protecting the ‘Skoardy‘ brand on yet another digital frontier, and had been dropping 140 character lumps of wisdom on a (very small) circle of people far too kind to unfollow me.

But it’s time to further utilise that stream of sh… um, conciousness and feed it directly to this site. You might have spotted two remarkably short posts directly below this one, already. Yeah, that’s the new plug-in (Twitter Tools by Alex King) hard at work. The short nature of the posts highlighted a couple of flaws in my year-or-so old theme but they’ve already been fudged fixed.

So look forward to a bright future full of 140 character long posts detailing things you probably never even knew you didn’t want to know until you came here. Right… how do I funnel my Facebook crap onto the site…?

Tags / facebook / tweet / Twitter /

Jan

24

2010

One of those days – opened a b…

One of those days – opened a box of matches upside down and then proceeded to try and strike up the wrong end of the match… a ‘few’ times.

Tags / tweet / Twitter /

Jan

17

2010

Slept funny last night and rea…

Slept funny last night and really want to sneeze. Each time I get to the explosive conclusion, my back twinges and puts me off. Infuriating!

Tags / tweet / Twitter /