Seems pretty painless. In fact, I did it via my iPhone.

Next thing I should really do is upgrade/change my theme.

I don't care if you have an iPad, have fallen in love with your iPad, want to marry and have babies with your iPad…

IT'S JUST A COMPUTER!!!!

And before you say "OOooo… You're just jealous that I have an iPad, and you don't."
No I'm not. I've used one, and DO think it is a really impressive machine.

I don't have an iPad cos I don't need one, want one or afford one.

I'd rather save up and get an iPhone 4GTS (or whatever it's going to be called), because that will be a much more useful tool for me.

Regards,

Griffmiester

One thing I've done is bought a funky new URL to make a shortener out of. So I spent some time on Domai.nr to see what I could find that was short, and still made sense.

What I ended up coming up with was http://g.rff.me/

So then what… How do you make a PHP based URL Shortener.

After using some Google-Fu, I found Free PHP URL shortener script that kicks ass.

Yeah, so what?… Well, I thought I'd explain what I'd gone through with setting it up, and what I discovered along the way.

So I know it currently looks pretty bare and boring, but it works.

So I have some basic plans for it… nothing much for the time being, but we'll see how it turns out.

So here’s the deal. I came up with an idea for a WordPress Plugin. So I did a search for it, and Nada. I’m actually really shocked.

It’s a relatively simple idea, you just take the ?????? and then replace it with ?????? and there you have it…
Oh wait my WordPress NDA Plugin blacked that out didn’t it…

Oh, and there goes another idea for a plugin…

Well never mind…

I’m seriously going to try and talk about this more that I’ve posted in the past.

Being a relatively prolific twitterer, I have a tendency to acquire new followers fairly regularly. This generally isn’t an issue for me, and I welcome followers. However here is where my gripe arises. :/

More and more lately I’m finding that new followers think they need to send me a DM to say hi, and welcome me to their Twitter stream. So, ok… this may seem like a good idea, but it gets very impersonal… I mean, how personal is it to get a message like…

"Hey! that"s great thanks for following me. I am looking forward to catching your tweets, let's not be strangers."
Um… I don’t know you at all… so we really are strangers, and this isn’t really helping your cause.
"Yipeee - welcome to this innovative and heart pumping space! - let's stay conncted!"
Oookkaaaayyy…..
"hey there, welcome to my world of twitter!"
Why? what’s wrong with my world of twitter?
"Hiya. Look fwd to tweeting with you. Feel free to send me a quick ‘hi’"
I followed you back… wasn’t that enough???
"Cheers on the follow."
well this was the most innocuous reply… but was it really necessary?
"Hi, thanks for following me, looking forward for conversation"
But twitter isn’t about conversations… You don’t really get it do you…
"Thanks for the add! Always great to meet like-minded people"
This one was actually ironic, as I’d met this person… and we aren’t like minded… well not in a number of things anyway.

I also know that I’m not the only Twitterer to have found these Auto-DM’s to be annoying. In fact, some people I follow have gone so far as to instigate their own policy of automatically blocking any new followers that perform this sort of practice.

So what am I trying to say with all this?

Well… If you are of the persuasion of “making friends and influencing people”, I’d suggest you don’t make a habit of this practice

I have to admit, I won’t block you for doing this to me, but take note that I’ll not appreciate it, and if I do block you, you’ll have deserved it.

I have a plugin installed that automatically strips out the CSS for my blog on CSS Naked Day. I just didn’t realise that it was now.

So that’s why my blog looks a little weird.

I’ve just added the the functionality of RPX: Instant OpenID and Data Portability.
So what does that mean? It means that you can use an OpenID account, or another Third-Party login, such as Google or Yahoo, or Blogger, etc.

This allows you to use this as a Login, for either Admin purposes, or so someone can leave a comment on a post.

Hoping to post some more soon.

Why did I do that? Well, the logic was, this is my random blog, and that is my everything related to my uni subjects blog.

I know that for one of my subjects It was suggested to keep a diary of what I’ve learnt when, because I need to explain all this when I submit my portfolio at the end of the semester. Another subject has it’s own blog that we are supposed to write comments on for questions/comments about the tutorials and lectures. I could include a link to a site, and I’d prefer it not to just be my random stuff.

So here I am, now trying to handle 2 blogs. I’m not even sure that I’ve gone about it the right way, as I’ve actually installed WordPress x2 to be able to do it… If there’s a better method, can someone drop me a line.

Ciao.

So this post I decided that now I have an iPhone (that’s another post I’m in the process of writing) I needed to make my blog iPhone friendly. So how do I do that.

I searched WordPress.org and found the WPTouch plugin. I’ve installed it and it’s working well.
I’ve also added the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin, which means that it should now also work for other mobile devices (you know, the ones that aren’t an iPhone). As I currently don’t have a 2nd Mobile phone, I haven’t been able to test this to see how it works. If you do try it out, could you leave me a comment on this post, and evena link to a screenshot would be nice.

I’ll throw up some screen grabs when I can do this on a computer.

Do this on a computer? That’s right I’ve written this post on my iPhone.

And here are some screenshots from an iPhone that I took of my blog.

I’ll write again soon.

Sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been busy with a REALLY ANNOYING Group Assignment at Uni.

I’ll get back to posting my ramblings soon… I hope.

I have about 4 posts that I really want to do, I just haven’t had the time.

I have been adding more photo’s, so if you are really bored, you could check out my flickr account