Thursday, 27 October 2011

• It's been awhile

  I haven't been active on Xanga lately. I was assuming that posts from posterous were making their way here, but they weren't. Not sure what's wrong with it, the log info is correct , but it just stopped working sometime this summer.

  Anyhow, life is fine. I've been playing with different social networking platforms. I have fallen in love with Diaspora ( diasporafoundation.org ) , and because of that, all the other sites, facebook, google+, and new places like unthink, just pale in comparison. I love the minimalist look of Diaspora, and the absolute lack of ads. I also like the fact that many people are able to host their own Diaspora pod. A Pod is basically just a site that is running an application of Diaspora on it, and all pods interconnect  with one another so it matters not which site you join. I joined via diasp.org. I like Diaspora ,and Friendika (http://projectfriendika.com )as well I might add - only Friendika is just sort of stabilizing itself at the moment - because sites like those are ad free, completely user controlled, and there is a lot of interaction between members and developers. They are free, and open-source and very transparent in their nature. They both allow total privacy controls, and you can chose who to post to, who sees what, etc.  

  So anyhow, I've been playing about over there lately and making friends. I also worked on consolidating my different sites and putting them all with one webhost. I updated my divinaturism.com site. I TRIED working with Drupal and Joomla, I gave each a good go, but in the end I went running home to wordpress self-hosted. I chose simple:press as a forum option for my wordpress Divinaturism site. It isn't uploaded to the wordpress repository, so one has to do the ol' ftp thing, but it was super simple, with lots of ways to control the different settings and embeds right into my wordpress site. The only thing I had to really do, because I wanted my forum to have a wide display,  was create a plain template called 'forum' and add it into my pages so that my forum would apear across the whole width of the page. I love it. I had been playing about with Buddypress/bbpress etc and it was giving me errors and conflicting with themes, and in the end, with a rather small site, something like buddypress/bbpress just wasn't necessary. Buddypress can be integrated into simple:press however. One day, if needed, I will re-evaluate. 

  I bottled some Dandelion wine last night. It was a small batch. 3 litres, and I spilled some, lol. Once that siphon gets going, it just gets going! I have a gallon of Quince mead in the works too. I'm pretty excited about that! Should be awesome!

   

  

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