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Fixing a Broken Twitter Feed in the Google Reader Lifestream Archive

A week or so ago I noticed that my Twitter feed had stopped updating in in Google Reader and because I use Google Reader as an archive for my Lifestream that meant that new tweets weren’t showing up.  After assuming that this was some sort of Twitter functionality rollback or a mistake that I was […]

Modified SimpleLife Lifestreaming Plugin

For the last few months I’ve been playing with lifestreaming, using the SimpleLife plugin for WordPress as the basis for this work. Based on it and some edits and ideas from Db0 I’ve modified the plugin that I am using enough that I thought that I should make it public and therefore add these […]

New Look

So I used the long weekend for a little upgrade to the Trumblog and swapped out the theme and cleaned up the blog a bit. It’s nicer than the old look that was looking a little generic and shows a bit more personality. Special thanks to Donna Megquier who had the inspiration […]

WordPress 2.5 Update Graphic Problem

I updated to WordPress 2.5 on Sunday and it really couldn’t have been easier. Made sure that I had the database backed up, updated the files, updated the database and viola a new interface. All plugins seemed to be working, the site looked the same, admin features were upgraded, I was a happy […]

Alex King Wordpress Plugin Czar on Download Squad

Download Squad has a new Squadcast where they interview Alex King, Wordpress Guru and plugin developer, who certainly steered me in the right direction when I set up my blog over the summer. He has developed a wonderful set of plugins, of which I’m personally using Twitter Tools and Wordpress Mobile Edition and probably […]

Blogging About Twittering

Steve Rubel has it right when he says that “If Web 2.0 is like golf, then a blog is a nine iron, while a micro-blog is a putter.” This meme is seems to be taking off and feel like I’m seeing this idea of long and short form blogging a lot now, but then […]

First Post

Well, the family is away for the week so I’ve finally done it and created the blog. My goal is to step up and consolidate my web presence and this is a logical step. Now I just have to regularly produce some decent content. Too late to write much more this evening.

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