Spacedmonkey

Just a quick note to all those who are reading this, I have recently setup my facebook profile to automatically converts everything I post my blog, spacedmonkey as notes. This means that my blog can be read from directly within Facebook and means my writings and rants get more eye balls on them. There may be so posts that are completely random, pointless, stupid, nerdy, weird or generally not understandable but keeping reading, their really is some gold. So if you are reading this as a note, check out my blog at www.spacedmonkey.co.uk or click on the original post link at the top that says “View original post”.

Hey everybody, just a quick note to say hello and that I am still alive. The thing is, spacedmonkey and all my web sites went down the other day I didn’t come back up for over two day. I must admit that those were two of the most horrible days of my life. I really have put lots of love into all of my websites and the thought that they would never come back up again really made me sad. So at the thought of my site going down, I thought of all the things that I have been meaning to blog about and have not. So I am going to try much hard to get some on here. I am going to try and write something on this blog at least once a week. Anyways. Just so you know, we are back and ain’t going anywhere.

The new and cool thing on the internet is something called Micro-blogging. Basically Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) about your life on the go. It always people to quickly update their friends without sitting down for ages to write a long post. There are lots of sites there that do this like Jaiku and Twitter.

Facebook has also added status update which gives 160 character field to write a small little place to wite a personal update. This status is shown in the News feed and can also be outputted as an RSS feed. As I spend lots of time updated this, so I thought I would add to this site. The new feature which I am currently testing at the moment appears on the right hand sidebar, under the heading, My status. It adds a personal touch to the site and adds a new element to page.

I would like to know what you think of it, so please comment.

This blog has been running for nearly a year and I thought that I would talk about blogging itself. I really enjoy writting this blogs in general and the act interests me so much, I thought that I would be a little Self-reference. I must admit, I really do not write enough and keep this page as updated as I should but I do try. It really is a matter of what on earth should I write about? There are lots of sites out there that report news like the BBC, so I am not going to try and be one of those. I don’t like sites that rereport news and normally there is a just a hyperlink to the page and no useful new information. If you really want to find cool news stories, than why not have a look at the social linking sites, like Digg or del.icio.us.

I have been known to do a bit of rereporting but I don’t think that is the real focus of this site. The point of this site is that is doesn’t really have a point. I can write what I feel interests me and share that with the rest of the world. But reading this blog you get a chance to look in my head and see the kinds of things that interest me. It makes this blog very personal to and you get insight into my mindset by reading it. Having said that it is very personal, I don’t really write about my life. There are lots about blogs out there about people’s lives, their girlfriends and parents that are getting on people nurves. For the most part, all of these are rubbish and are completely boring to read. I find it hard to believe that anyone but the people who these blogs are write about would find Joe Blogs and his cats at all interesting. I try and write about accessable topics that interest the world at large. What the problem lots of us weblogger have is, how do you keep the quality level to a high standard. The question you have to got ask yourself before sitting down in front of your computer is this, “Why I am blogging this?”. If it is for a good reason, to write something of use, that would help the world, like a blog about you dealing with a problem, then fine. But if I have to read another blog post about the Iphone, I think I am going to go mad.

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Spacedmonkey now has a image gallery. The “photos” includes all the times I have taken with my digital camera and mobile phone over the last couple of years. There is some really nice pictures like graffiti which I found around the corner from where I am currently living in portsmouth.

It is a feature that has been in the pipelines for a long time and until laterly I haven’t managed to get working. All the images in the photo gallery are hosted on my Flickr account which I have been updating weekly for nearly a year. It means that you can browser the many images without worrying about bandwidth limits. This is all made possible by a lovely plugin called
Flickr Photo Album for WordPress. It is simply amazing, as it works so well with Flickr. It even has many of the features of Flickr, like search, feeds and tags.

Adding the photos section shows the move away from what this blog used to be. I have no plans to turn this book into a personal dairy, but it is nice to share my things of interest with the world at large. So enjoy my pictures and watch this space.

Happy CSS naked day. I know that this site is no longer a Tech blog, but I still think that I should take part in stuff like this. The basic idea behind this day that web designer stick to standards. It also gives me a chance to show this site’s nake <body>

Other sites that are doing this

• Wackomenace
• blogherald
• dustindiaz

For more information, go to the officle site.

Spacedmonkey the blog of randomness is changing. Along with a little bit of a face lift, lots more things have changes including it’s content and it’s focus. Firstly and most importantly, as of today, there will be no more posts about computer and technology on this site. Even the back posts about tech subjects have been removed. Many of these posts will be moved to a new blog, which should be up and running called The Computing Corner. The site has a new focus as a blog of interesting articles and writings.

More improvements include

1. Sexy new look
2. New section, titled works, with little writtings and other things I have done.
3. A dynamic archive page, list of all the posts and static pages
4. Improved load time
5. New tagging system that allows posts to be sorted by taggs
6. Easier to find hyperlinks within text
7. Rewritten About page, with lots more information
8. New Questions and Answers page, with lots of explanations of some of the Technical features of the site
9. More information about the site is included at the footer of each page
10. Improved submission to del.icio.us and Digg
11. Improved spam filtering on comments
12. The site now uses Wordpress 2.1
13. New background images from the header, including a really cool lego design
14. Refinements to the rss feed and search plug-in
15. New contact form, which a input box for the subject of your form.

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