You know you’ve dropped off the radar when your girlfriend’s Nintendo DS asks where the fuck you are.
I could probably have stayed off the blog for another day or two, but then I saw this:
Cheers, Greg. Now I have to do something with bootstraps and pulling and all that crap.
Last week I had some crappy news from the grim cold North reach out and try and fuck with me and that came right on top of some really bad news about this little girl:
During a regular visit to the vet we found out that Sandwich is not as well as she seems. The poor thing has had a bunch of trips to the vet this week. She’s anaemic and has some odd fluid in her stomach which for a while was pointing to FIP. We’d just about got our head around that batch of nastiness when one of many bloodtests ruled that out. Now it’s looking more like Leukemia.
So that sucks.
Anyway, I pretty much powered down this whole past week and got next to nothing done. Now I’m ready to throw myself back into a lot of new stuff and catch up with the crap that slipped this week.
Right now though it’s back to the vet and then kill the evening in the pub. We have friends here from DC so will be camped out in The George for the rest of the evening…
I’ve organised a little get together tomorrow night.
If you’re reading this you’re invited. I don’t want to hear any excuses about the Atlantic being in the way.
Should be fun. Bunch of interesting folk have already signed up and while Twitter is a great excuse for a drink the focus is really on putting a bunch of cool people in a room (with a belly dancer?) and letting the conversation roll.
See you there.
Gotta go catch a plane.
Back in a few days.
ps Have fun at the Moo Party!
Here’s something from Webjam that I think a lot of people will get a kick out of. It’s a one step creation tool for creating a content heavy website from scratch. Simply add any topic you like into the field below and click the Adopt! button:
It’s a handy tool for aggregating content from across the Internet, but I think there’s a lot more potential here than simply creating a fanpage (although it does that wonderfully).
One of the things I had to research recently was Spaghetti Westerns. I already know more than a little bit about the genre (I was lucky enough to do a crazy M.A. that covered some really unusual bases), but was a little out of touch with what was going on out there right now. I used the Webjam tool to create this page. Now I’m not going to build a blog around this subject (but I could if I was that way inclined by simply dropping a blog module onto the page as easily as I could pipe Morricone music through it) but as a research hub I’m finding it particularly useful. One of the feeds for example pointed me towards this unpublished book by Alex Cox that I’m having a lot of fun with.
Now most of you will already have blogs, but we all know someone who likes the idea of a real website, but hasn’t got the time (and sometimes chops) to put it together. The nice thing about Webjam is that it’s increasingly making the creation process simpler and easier.
Even someone with an already noteable web presence (be it on Wordpress, Blogger, Movable Type, Flickr, Twitter or whatever) could use the platform to beef up their content. The interesting thing is that this is only a starting point for Webjam. Often compared to Pageflakes and the like it would be easy to gain some buzz around this feature alone, but the team are a lot more interested in using simple page creation to create real communities.
There’s a full version of the tool on the Webjam homepage and be sure to check out the video… you may recognise the voice.
