Thanks to the powers of the Wayback Machine, here is the earliest layout I can find for Mitchelaneous (then hosted as a part of the lockergnome.net blogs).  Actually, you could probably say that Chris Pirillo (and the old Lockergnome team of writers) played a big part in this web site’s existence.

I like to say I was a part of the last great team of writers at Lockergnome.com, before they turned it into a big social network/everybody can sign up type of mess.  At the time, I was trying to build up my own resume, so writing more seemed to be a natural progression.  So I set up a blog, start to pontificate, and the rest is digital history.

So in closing, I just wanted to take a minute to thank each and every one of you for stopping in day to day, and making this little pet project of mine a fun one to be apart of.  I appreciate your support, no matter if you just came in once or you come in every single day. 

Want to make sure you don’t miss a post in the next five years?  Be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed, in your feed reader of choice. 

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Here are just a few of my favorite “fails” from the web site:

• Fail is when you dress up as gangster and think you run the streets. The sad part is that you live in the suburbs in a nice house and your dads an engineer & mom’s a doctor.
• Fail is when your sitting in a class room and your teacher talks to you for 5 minutes , showing you the linux operating system….after 5 mins you up your hand and ask "Is that windows vista?"
• Fail is when an employee writes how much she hates work on Twitter and fails to notice that anyone can read those tweets and her boss (Me) is following her.
• Fail is when you have ur head phones on and ur blasting your music…but the reality is that your headphones are unplugged and everyone can listen to your music! Fail!
• Fail is when you think you’ve taken the dog out for enough walks during the day and go to bed unconcerned, only to wake up the next morning to an unpleasant package waiting on the bathroom floor.
• Fail is when your so cheap that you decide to buy a ink refill package, rather then a cartridge…so then you come home and you attempt to refill it manually, however you end up screwing it up and make a huge mess..then you end up going back to the store and you buy the original cartridge…FAILED:)

The idea here is to cheer you up, by reading through other people’s often hilarious mishaps and failures.  I know that might seem a ‘bit sick and twisted, but Simply Failed can be a really fun time.

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Sticky posts, will let you bump a story to the top of the homepage – without the need of editing the time stamp over and over again.  This is handy for me, because with the Web Hosting Show’s site, I wanted to keep the most recent podcast pinned to the top of WebHostingShow.com – with new content following bellow it.  With a little template editing, WordPress interface knowledge and some hard work – you can do the same.

How to Get Started with Sticky Posts

The best guide thus far on how to use this WordPress feature that was introduced back in WordPress 2.7 is Nathan Rice’s Definitive Sticky Posts Guide.  Here you can learn how to make a post sticky from within WordPress, and how to edit your theme’s templates to reflect the changes.

Show More Than One Sticky Post

What if you want to get more than just one sticky post in your WordPress blog?  Then you might need to check out how to get the latest sticky posts via WPRecipies.com.  That have a code snippet up that goes right before the loop, that retrieves X most recent sticky posts.

All in all, it is a fun weekend side project to try out – if your looking to add a little something special to your WordPress powered web site.

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Ok, first you are going to have to register and setup some accounts.  Do so at Ping.fm and TwitterFeed.com.   TwitterFeed.com will allow you to plug your RSS feeds into it to automatic sharing, and then you can plug your TwitterFeed.com account into Ping.fm – so it take your RSS posts, and shares them on the dozens of social network sites out there.

Where do the two mix together?

It all happens in step number one in setting up your feed at TwitterFeed.com.  Click on, “Show More Services” and select Ping.fm.

Now you should see a box where you can input your Ping.fm application key. To get your Ping.fm application key, login to your Ping.fm account, and under Services/Tools find the Application Keys link.

Now go back to TwitterFeed.com and finish setting up your feed.  Now, whenever a new item is posted to your RSS feed it will go to TwitterFeed.com, and then TwitterFeed.com takes it to Ping.fm to be published on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, FriendFeed and many more services.

You can now share your new blog posts as soon as you publish them to your web site.

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This has to be the trippiest use of Twitter I have seen yet.  TweetRad.io will let you listen to what others are tweeting about, using what they call “tweet-to-speech” technology.  Pick one of the options they have featured across the top of the page, tech, news, sports, funny, featured or search for any phrase then wait a few seconds.  Soon, your browser will be displaying and reading tweets out to you.

Not sure how useful this is, unless you need to read a lot of tweets and your hands aren’t free? Other than that though, it at least makes for a cool site to show off to your friends, or maybe even a way to hear what is popular in the morning while you check your e-mail, drink your coffee and mindlessly navigate around the Web, till you get fully awake.

Check it out over at TweetRad.io, then let me know what you think of it.

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Download the Mario and Yoshi Desktop Icon! (.zip)

The icon is compatible with the following sizes:  256 x 256, 128 x 128, 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24, 16 x 16.  It is also in both .ico and .png format.

More Free Icons – Enjoy this icon? Be sure to check out my archive of custom icons I have created to share with all the citizens of Mitchelaneous-land.  Feel free to download, share, and use any of them.  The only thing I ask for in return is a cheap and shameless plug or two thrown back my way.

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Found some fresh Hyrulian wallpaper to ogle over. Ever since this epic piece of art was leaked from E3 of the new Zelda game for Wii, I always thought to myself it would make a great wallpaper.  Thankfully, purenintendo.com has already done the hard work for us, putting out this 1680×1050 image for all the Legend of Zelda fans to decorate their desktop with.  (you can grab the direct link to the image here)

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Ninite makes installing a plethora of new applications really simple. With Windows 7 coming out, or those who feeling the urge to clean out Vista or Windows XP, we are all looking at simpler ways to install a lot of great programs out there.  That is what Ninite is all about. 

All you have to do is visit their web site, click the check marks for the programs you want to bundle together, start the customized installer, and presto – you are done.  They only install the programs you want (no hidden toolbars or spyware).  Heck, they don’t even install their own program – they only install the programs you want and need. 

Ninite definitely offers a cool way to grab your own bundle of software solutions to install.  For more assistance on how to get up and running with your own customized install, check out these articles from Simple Help and the How-to Geek. (also big thanks to Todd for showing my this great free service!)

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RSS feeds are extremely handy when it comes to keeping up with the latest and greatest updates from a web site. However, even today, there are still some web sites that are feed-less.  To help you track those web sites out there, we have RSSA, Really Simply Syndicate Anything.

All you do is enter the web site URL into the text box, and hit submit.  You will then be given several options on which content you would like to grab. This web site also comes in handy if you don’t know how to create a feed – but you think you need one for your visitors. 

Check out the many more reasons on why you should create  a feed, and then get started with this online tool today.

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Just in time for Halloween, how would you like to get a casket?  Filed under the really weird things you can get from Walmart – we have the Lady de Guadalupe casket.  Yes, apparently you can order a number of caskets from Walmart.com.  Think ranks up there in the weirdness level of the gallon of whole milk from Amazon.com.

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