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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Yup, I got a new design! I did this all in 1 day.

Sure, I did spend some time ‘upskilling’ at work doing the design and html template, but I got the whole WordPress skin done in about 4 hours.

I based it off of the Classic theme (y’know, the ugly default theme) and tweaked the living daylights out of it, adding extra template files.

I’m quite happy with how it came out. What say you?

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My Tweets for 2009-08-10

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

while it doesn't use @epicbeer, this is one giant leap for brew-kind: http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/003.htm 13:51:20
gonna have to start saving for my donation to @desertbus in four months… can't have @loadingreadyrun drive for less than last year's 5d+ 20:12:47
Cthulhu emoticon ->
(;,;)

#cthulhuemoticon (RT @annaleen) (via @xenijardin) 09:23:05
Great article showing Child's Play (@cpcharity) at work on Kotaku today. http://bit.ly/fmV1f (via @DesertBus) 09:55:16
@br3nda tomorrow, if that's cool. I'm gonna get some stuff done to round off the wknd at #wordcampnz like write a JS to get all the tweets in reply to br3nda 10:49:16

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My Tweets for 2009-08-09

Monday, August 10th, 2009

The pancake layer @photomatt was talking about (!) http://twitpic.com/d7uhq 12:00:33
"iTunes 9 will *finally* include the ability to visually organize and arrange your iPhone/touch apps." http://bit.ly/xd0IK (via @dalmaer) 14:06:01
my life as a real-time internet blogger is educational and draining -> http://translationparty.com/tp/#751453 22:27:14
decided not to goto catalyst today, think strained my tweet tendon. also Monday + me could make things tough for @br3nda & team, do not want 08:34:00

Tags: tweets, Twitter
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My Tweets for 2009-08-08

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Examples of BuddyPress installations: GigaOM Pro http://pro.gigaom.com/ and TastyKitchen http://bit.ly/OAOeW (bt) #wordcampnz 10:22:55
Applause for Anthony Cole @anthonycole. Q&A now (bt) #wordcampnz 10:23:41
Q: BuddyPress builds on WPMU and WP and MU are merging, will this affect BP? A: Don't worry too much, it should be fine (bt) #wordcampnz 10:24:24
Q: Why use BuddyPress? A: for small network/community, bunch of friends. WPMU is wordpress.com + small # of code chgs (bt) #wordcampnz 10:26:10
Q: Can I make buddypress completely private? A: not complicated, use plugins or functions to do it (bt) #wordcampnz 10:26:36
Q: is it secure? A: Yes, GigaOM is using it [so you know it's good] (bt) #wordcampnz 10:27:46
Next up is Chris Lipscombe from Ground Zero talking about "Business Fundamentals: Getting it right in order to make it big" (bt) #wordcampnz 10:29:06
To do deals, get yourselves a business to do your deals. Get your head around GST. You need a biz to get investors (bt) #wordcampnz 10:30:13
Most important thing of your business is to start making money and to get cash flowing through your business (bt) #wordcampnz 10:30:53
getting money coming in is not the same thing as making a profit, just know where the money is coming from (bt) #wordcampnz 10:31:58
Two kinds of plan: #1 strategic plan: long term, where you want to be, what you're selling and where to. doesn't involve $$.(bt) #wordcampnz 10:34:23
strategic plan is how you want to look, business plan is how you are going to make money. (bt) #wordcampnz 10:34:30
capital is something you chew up and spit out, that is normal (bt) #wordcampnz 10:34:50
buddys are good business partners, but often it may be your employees who share the ideals of the business (bt) #wordcampnz 10:35:26
sometimes it could be channels and communities, it could be key customers (bt) #wordcampnz 10:35:45
plan for growth: what is the thing that will kick start your business? what do you need to do to grow customers, capital? (bt) #wordcampnz 10:36:31
prepare yourself to deals: difference between ownership, management, governance. when small biz, easy to blur this. (bt) #wordcampnz 10:37:18
oops, was dual tweeting, sorry followers, have fixed this. 10:38:14

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New Zealand TWTR SMS Roundup

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

This is a work-in-progress timeline of all the news surrounding Vodafone New Zealand and Telecom New Zealand announcing their support for Twitter SMS through the shortcode TWTR (8987).

@vodafonenz: Now official – Twitter coming soon to a TXT near you: [url] at 9:16 AM May 12th
Vodafone NZ’s press release says they will use the shortcode TWTR (8987) and says “The service will launch in the coming weeks.”
Twitter have yet to post on their blog that they now support New Zealand. I speculate that they will not do so until the service is actually live to customers.
@telecomnz: We have partnered with Twitter to bring you Twitter to your Mobile via TXT msg from May 29! at ~3:00 PM May 12th
@telecomnz: Telecom Mobile Customers from May 29 can msg 8987 (TWTR) to update their twitter account or receive tweets via TXT at ~3:00 PM May 12th
Yet, Telecom’s media department doesn’t back it up: no press release has been made at Telecom’s Media Releases page as of yet.
National Business Review fails at journalism and provides more proof that old media just doesn’t get it: copy/pastes from Vodafone’s press release, forgets that Twitter SMS is available in the USA, UK and India and may have just missed Twitter’s news of adding Canada, adds word ‘exclusive’: Vodafone scores exclusive Twitter deal
@nzben: @TelecomNZ Is that a piggy-back on Vodafone’s connection, or a separate agreement? at ~2:00 PM May 12th
@telecomnz: @nzben a seperate agreement with Twitter. at ~2:00 PM May 12th
Google News: “vodafone new zealand” twitter shows that other old-media sources FAIL and think the deal is exclusive, including NetGuide.
Twitter announces official support to New Zealand SMS, with update support for all, but Twitter to handset delivery for Vodafone NZ customers, with other networks, and Australia support to follow!

Any news, just leave a comment including any and all links to public sources and I’ll do my best to keep this up to date.

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