I create things that don't exist.Nothing you see in front of your eyes is real.
It's a revelation. An Enigma.
Sorry for the spam…
…but without spam, life would be very boring - wouldn’t it?
Anyway, half an hour ago I decided to import my Tumblr blog into my WordPress blog. This would help with my plans to alternate between Tumblr and my WordPress blog for posts and stuff, but something went horribly wrong.
Turns out, I had completely forgotten about my dlvr.it setup which took the RSS feed of my WordPress blog and published the new items to Tumblr. And being a machine, and a web machine at that, it wasn’t smart enough to realize what it was posting was already on the Tumblr blog.
Not only that, but each new post to the Tumblr blog got sent to Twitter and Facebook, causing mayhem and chaos and mad chainsaw-wielding chipmunks to wage war against my awesomeness.
It was a bloody war, but it’s over now, and I’d like to apologize for the little spam epidemic that went on ;)
Here’s a little diagram: Import to LucasBlog > New content on LucasBlog is published on TumbLucas > New content on TumbLucas is published to Twitter and Facebook.
Anyway, it’s all cleaned up.
Well, after a while, I decided Tumblr wasn’t providing the customization I needed. And half of what I wanted to do wasn’t their fault either.
So to enabled myself to be able to customize my blog the way I wanted, I made a WordPress blog at that location. It’s quite nice, I was able to import all my blog posts on both Tumblr and Blogger.
However, I’m not moving completely over there and ditching Tumblr. Rather, I’m going to have it import via RSS my blog posts as they’re written, and after that I’ll add tags and things.
Really thrilled with the new blog, and will continue to be on Tumblr.
What I’ve been up to - 06-09-2011
Well, ever since I bought Minecraft on Saturday morning I’ve been playing it like crazy. Awesome game, it’s something I knew I was lacking but didn’t know it, that’s how I feel. Found an awesome server at www.mcmines.com, and have a nice little cave dug out underground, with a tower nearby and a tunnel under the main city, both of which I’m constructing. Very fun. I wish the server was online 24/7 however, there are times when I’m ready to play and the admin hasn’t started it yet.
Been posting an insane amount on other forums to earn Postloop points, I’ve earned quite a lot so far, and am undecided about either cashing them in or using them for my forum. Problem is, the postloopers don’t stay, if you lose your points then they leave and post on other forums, which isn’t what I want; I want them to stay and be a part of the forum without me having to automatically pay them in points.
Another thing I’ve been playing with is CloudFlare’s apps, I’ve found Apture to be a huge time saver on sites and have installed the Chrome extension. Highlighting texting and having the search results in a small window without changing pages is awesome.
About Tumblr, the interface is nice and all, but I’m concerned about page performance right now. They don’t have any compression whatsoever enabled, and I would love to get CloudFlare on my blog. And besides that, the app for my iPod sucks. It’s a big deal when you can’t type in landscape mode on the new post screen. So, I’m considering making a WordPress blog on a subdomain of my site, it will allow more customization than Tumblr does and I will be able to make the speed improvements I want to make, plus so much more. Problem is I like Tumblr’s tag search feature, there’s some very nice stuff on there, and reblogging is cool. Lately StumbleUpon is becoming more and more a useful tool for inspirations of new posts, and I think I shouldn’t be that bad off if I use it when or if I start a WordPress powered blog. And besides that, they’ve got an iPod app that will let you type in landscape mode. clap.gif.
We’ll see, I’m going to be playing with the WordPress installation I’ve got on my test site, at test.enigmachs.com/wordpress, get some plugins installed, find a better theme, etc.
Until then, adieu.
Well, today I made a subdomain to put all my stuff I’m testing in one place. I think I’m going to make Wordpress the default page there.
As I use Wordpress more and more, I’m starting to like the amount of flexibility it gives me more than Tumblr. But I have yet to decide to switch to it, I like Tumblr’s social blogging aspect.
