Just a quick note to say sorry for the unstable feed. I changed it to point elsewhere and back again, so it gathered multiple entries quickly a few days in a row. I’ll stop doing that now!
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It’s all about the test posts
Another test post. This time to test Echo, a real-time comment system that should pull comments from twitter/friendfeed and the “social web” as they happen in real time (if you purchase the “live” option). Could you please do me a favour and comment on this post (even to critisise the system) or reply to the tweet/post that sent you here so I can see if/how it works.
Cheers everyone! Hopefully I can be a guinea pig for everyone that follows me on Twitter to save you the cash if it doesn’t work as intended.
Site Direction?
This site was always just a place to practice my website building skills and publish something to attach to my name if anyone came looking for me. As I didn’t have a burning need driving me to write (other than my first post), I’ve struggled sometimes to find anything to write about.
That probably won’t change — I’m not a writer deep in my soul — but I’m hoping that as I begin my TAFE course I might find stuff to post more frequently. I’m going to study programming (beginning with JAVA), and I’m expecting to write about some of the things I’m learning. So let this be a warning to you if you visit here regularly (yes my three loyal readers, I’m talking to you), I may be posting programming stuff, including code bits, and expanding on what I’m learning as I go, so if you don’t get programming, or are a super-coder you may want to skim over my posts (or even better, correct me when I’m wrong).
Just a heads up.
And the addition of Beau Giles brings me to 16.
Thank you Beau — your subscription brings me to 16 subscribers in Feedburner!
Pitiful… Absolutely pitifulAnd if that was you that actually clicked on one of my feed items, you’ve given me a feedburner “reach” of one! Hooray! I’m popular! I can use exclamation marks! See?!
On another more serious note, Hittail.com suggests that I should be writing about “bible comic strips” and “allinurl blog”…
Hittail — confusedI suspect that Hittail might be getting confused.
New NunnOne theme and advice
My personal Wordpress theme is finished. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do since I first installed Wordpress, and I’ve finally managed it. It isn’t fancy, but it’s mine from start to finish (with the help of some online guides).
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What I Write
When I started writing in my blog (infrequently as it is), I never expected anyone to read it outside my friends and family. And I’m talking across the span of my life — I expected family and friends to visit my site occasionally and get maybe a few visits a year. Primarily, NunnOne is so that I have a place on the web that embodies ‘me’ when someone Googles my name.
Of course, I kinda wished deep down that other people would find my little home and derive some small pleasure from reading about me and my thoughts, but I never seriously thought that it would happen. It still doesn’t really happen, but I do get a small number of visitors here that find me (mostly through Google) via a couple of topics that people seems to care about. One of them is Hercules Returns for which I still get many visitors (but few comments or repeat readers), and the other is my commentary on Fred Basset. These two topics are my most heavily found/read/commented-on posts but for different reasons.
Update from Me (or ‘Why I haven’t written in a while’)
To my 3 loyal readers, sorry I haven’t written in a while. To be honest,I keep up with you regularly anyway, and you know all my news. And frankly, anything I think I’d like to share with the world gets covered in other blogs very quickly by a lot of people before I can anyway.
CSS Naked Day
Update: 2006-04-06 It’s over and I lived!
I’m getting this in early, in case I forget or don’t have time on the day — April 5th has been declared the First Annual CSS Naked Day. No my web site is not broken.
This is a minor big deal in the web world. Credit to Dustin Diaz for coming up with the idea.