Assurance Malaise

Sweetcron was fun, but lacked the power and maturity which I require, and so Wordpress holds out as still the best solution for me. However, I’ve also added a LifeStream plugin to this blog.

The TeeGee / Terminal Gibbage clan home page that resided at http://teegee.yibble.org/ is now no more, but I have imported all of the content in to this blog, and set up a ServerAlias to re-direct any stragglers here.

I’ve done this because the site had not seen any usage for a long period of time, and was not justifying the additional Wordpress installation, yet, I didn’t want to let it disappear either.

Some time ago, I blogged about how my blog was less of place for thought out editorials, and how it was more a collection of snippets that I was gathering from around the World-Wide-Web. Since then, many more sites support XML or RSS feeds for syndication of interaction, and their integration into software like Flock, has created a more social World-Wide-Web.

So I’m left wondering if Wordpress is the correct platform for this web-site. Because ultimately, I’m occasionally posting scraps here, and occasionally actually writing stuff. Then I look at how I use Facebook as a feed aggregator for my friends that glass over at the mention of syndication. Perhaps Facebook is the wrong place for that, and perhaps just by using social sites that have XML/RSS feeds, I’m effortlessly creating content, where posts like this are just occasional seasoning.

This brings us to Lifestreaming, and Sweetcron. Lifestreaming is pretty much automated tumblelogging. By posting a public photograph to Flickr, an entry is created, or by digging an article, or bookmarking a web-site, new entries are also created. If you want to see what I’m waffling about, head over to http://yibble.org/, where I have set up a Lifestream page. I’ve disabled commenting on the items, and changed the item links, so that they take you to source sites, but by default commenting and viewing items is done through the Lifestream site, producing a more blog like environment.

At the moment, I’m only experimenting with Sweetcron and Lifestreaming, but would certainly consider it as a potential replacement for Wordpress, if I could import all the posts, and all of my readers comments. What do you think?

One great thing about being a dad, is that you get to indulge in media for kids. Many folks will know that we have a little collection of old fairy tales, because I have a near physical revulsion for many modern saccharine induced renditions of them. Take note Disney: A fairy tale that has had its moral surgically removed via key-hole knobbery, has no value at all.

That said, new tales are always welcome and Two Frogs has oodles of charisma and charm, especially amongst the mums and dads who have an appreciation for security.

Two frogs are sitting on a lily pad and one of them has a stick. The stick, he says, is to beat off the dog. But there is no dog. Yet. So begin the trials and adventures of this hapless pair.

… of this reading that I chose for our wedding, so I thought I’d share it here:

“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world — its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That’s all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in ‘to love’ or ‘to learn,’ it does not have value.” — Anne Rice (Servant of the Bones.)