crazybobbles

Proposed plan for blog

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Managed to make myself a skin, it was almost built from scratch since i used a pretty minimalistic theme. I went with a blue and green theme since they’re my favorite colours. I’ve added some katamari backdrops to really make the theme come out. The theme is still in the making, I haven’t even finished the top part yet.

I’ve pretty much backed up crazybobbles.org so what’s left now is to finish the blog theme and start migrating. Quite excited since I feel like I’m not really making the most out of crazybobbles.org so migrating stuff from my blog seems like a cool idea. I just need a lovely place to dunk my covers and I can generate some flash player to play them (loads of people are using my songs for their sites and all ). Another thing I’m worried about is the amount of spam and crap that’s been generated via crazybobbles.org, boy that was a legacy. Luckily wordpress is a beauty at managing spam. So yeah content you’ll be expecting on my blog:

• Muse related information, I’ll only post stuff that are super interesting, I prefer using musewiki.org to sort out the news since it rocks (hehe got to love self promotion).
• Musewiki news, I have a news section on the wiki but it would definitely benefit if it was stored in some more blog like than wiki
• Feeds seems to be the key for getting these things right, I’ll be generating individual category feeds so people can subscribe to the correct ones, so if you’re only interested in my banter (fat chance) than you’ll subscribe to banter, if you’re interested in musewiki updated than you subscribe to that, of course there would still be a one feed that will rule them all.
• The obvious addition will be covers, having the blog migrated to crazybobbles.org means I’ll need to start recording more music, I’m quite tempted to just making youtube videos of them all so it can all be hosted externally, we’ll see.
• A new email address! The old crazybobbles was spammed silly haha.
• I might start a music myspace account. Reason is that it’s by far the most productive way of storing latest covers as well as distributing them, and lets face it, I never use myspace correctly, won’t do facebook though, wouldnt work too well.
• Some focus on photography as well, I will try and include more flickr photos on the blog (got to love the blog feature) will focus on band photography but to be honest I’ll try everything that’s interesting.

That’s all for now, I’m just writing out ideas so yeah. Will hopefully incorperate everything mentioned since it’s all doable. Blogging will definitely easier since I’m really enjoying blogging on the tube, nice hour spot to get something done and all.

New changes to blog!

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Well, after some thought (ie a quick idea on the tube) I’ve decided to move all of crazybloggles to crazybobbles.org. It’s a much nicer domain and I want to be able to give something back to my old site since I havent updated that in ages and moving the blog seems like a good idea. I will most likely pick a totally new blog skin to accomodate the change and will export the entire rather than a straight forward move, hopefully this will make things a bit more fun haha. So yeah, it will be an awesome move and it should make me blog more and everything.

Mobile blogging and catch up

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Well, found out that I can blog on my mobile and send it as a post via email. I’ve been really slacking with the updates, even if my posts were short or bulleted. I suppose this was inevitable once you have a job and barely any time to do outside the nonworking timeframe. Ah well. Good thing is I’ve been using Google Calendar to keep note of all the dates as well as Flickr to provide me with quick memory bumps of what happen at what corresponding day.

Think I’ll just compile a list of entries I still owe, and boy it dates back to Christmas. Don’t expect super long posts though, unless I have lots of time available:

• Stu’s birthday
• E61i review
• Christmas with alice
• New Years at Stu’s
• That random MiM gig
• Graduation with Alice
• New York New York
• That quick meetup with Kazzie
• Double gigging week
• Weekend with Alice

So yeah, loads to write, hopefully a nice batch of flickr photos to illustrate everything, maybe I should use the blog feature on Flickr to start my posts, seems logical and all, I kinda like the idea of making it so every Flickr photo is significant enough to have a story for each one.

WordPress 2.3 upgrade!

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Woo! I’ve managed to upgrade this baby to WordPress version 2.3, this means my tag cloud is all nice and pretty hehe. The upgrade wasn’t so bad except for the minor drawback of not disabling the ultimate tag warrior plugin which meant things didn’t work! Luckily I disabled the plugin, imported the tags and quickly removed tag warrior altogether to ensure everything worked, now I have some official working tags on my blog and all. Applying the code was easy after following the instructions and now it’s just a matter of tweaking the place up.

Hopefully I should have time to start coding my own blog theme so that everything is tweaked to my standards, will do a lot of planning and all to, need to make sure I know what’s going on before making any silly moves hehe.

Catch up blogging

Friday, September 14th, 2007

This damn blog requires some updates and stuff, I’ve really neglected it and all so I shall spend most of the time updating it, not only design wise, but content wise. I’ve decided to keep my entries nice and short now. I believe when you start enjoying life more than blogging, it’s probably for the best that the blogs are kept nice and concise (unless you hire someone to do the blogging for you). So yeah, watch this space, it will get a bit more interesting (since a lot of stuff has happened since)

Blog Pimping

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Been doing alot of blog pimping lately, on my blog and also on Alice’s newly acquired blog that can be found at www.aliced.co.uk. Its fun when you get into a mode where you just tweak your blog like silly haha. Some changes now include:

• New image borders and hovers
• Random images for To do list and about me section
• Slightly cooler looking comment box
• Removed Links from the blog
• Added a flickr badge at the bottom
• Changes the calender date thingy to a nicer looking green and white thingy
• Meddled with the header thingy a bit
• Added loads more subtitles

That’s about it really. Going to see Jason and Rachel today for some wii action

Blog updates

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Managed to update the wordpress software to 2.1, the admin panel is alot nicer and has some additional ajax looking features. It includes a visual and code tab which is good for editing stuff via code or via the rich editor. Hopefully they’ll implement tagging for 2.2, seems like the obvious path to take and all.
Not only that, I’ve sorted out some of the backgrounds of the blog so its slightly prettier.

Sorted my tags and all

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Think I’ve managed to suss out the tagging system on wordpress, its the most awesome plugin ever (ULTIMATE TAG WARRIOR 3). Makes your blog a little bit more web 2.0 and also helps people search certain posts more easily. So yeah. Enjoy the new tag cloud sidebar