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Infinity Floor

david — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:37:35 -0400

What happens when you go to the infinity floor? I don't know, but it's probably something like the 8th floor.

Fierce David

david — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:57:38 -0400

This month I co-won the Fierce award, which is this helmet. It's pretty cool. The golden trowel was an award that got retired and now it's mine. I think I need a shield type award to complete this award triforce.

Cactus

david — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:04:59 -0400

My cactus is growing like crazy.

Ryo

david — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:33:59 -0400

I'm testing out moblogging.

- Taken at 11:29 PM on July 31, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Scrapblogging

david — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:13:48 -0400

I tried out scrapblogging on Scrapblog. Here's what I came up with.

It's pretty much scrapbooking but on the Web. You pick some photos, move them around, add some text and clipart, and save them as a slideshow or export to flickr. Scrapblog is a web application, so all the editing is done on their web site. You just need Flash to use it. It's pretty cool, but I'm probably not going to use it too much. Maybe later for a special occasion.

Compression

david — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:16:19 -0400

It's like twelve pepperoni pizzas compressed into one little box.

MIA Wolfy

david — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:54:09 -0400

I'm trying to catch up on photos that I need to post to my blog. Here's the first. Wolfy decided to leave. So he did.

Now on Drupal 5

david — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:27:39 -0400

I finally upgraded my blog to Drupal 5. I've been messing with Drupal so much at work that this upgrade was a piece of cake. Assuming everything is working now, there weren't too many snags. Mostly just fixing up the theme to work again. Now I have about 4 or 5 more sites to upgrade. Great...

Ends to a Mean

david — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:18:07 -0400

I've been maintaining radio silence for a while so that I wouldn't jinx anything, but now I can finally tell you about the stuff going on in my life. I got a job in Washington, DC, and I got approved for an apartment.

Here I am after my first day of work. I'm a Web Developer at FierceMarkets. I started last Wednesday and it's going pretty well so far. I get to move in to my apartment around April 1st. So stuff is going great for me. How about you?

I'm Giving up Blogging in favor of Tumblelogging

david — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:54:06 -0500

Ok, so instead of continuing to think that I can keep up a blog with real commentary and intelligent new ideas, I'll just call this a tumblelog. By classifying this as a tumblelog, the posts are perfect and on topic. But as a blog, my posts don't make any sense and are incomplete. I had goals for this blog as a blog and I mostly failed, but as a tumblelog, this is a great success.

Wikipedia says:

A tumblelog is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, this format is frequently used to share the author's creations, discoveries, or experiences without providing a commentary.

Using that definition, this is definitely a tumblelog, not a blog. On the other hand, tumblelogs don't normally have comments enabled, so in that regard this is a blog.

It's all about what you call it. Maybe I need to invent a new term for what I'm doing, like rumbletumblebloglog. I invented that. Just do this rumbletumblebloglog Google search. Maybe check in a few months and this will be up there.

If you were wondering, killkaraoke has always been and will always be a journal. Even though we were in the Blogathon, which is for blogs, a journal is entirely different.