Stirling Albion’s Supporters Trust is aiming to become the first such trust to own the team outright (100%) - I’ve just bought a membership to aid this goal, if you’d like to be a part of it also, check out the link below!
Until I work out how to reply on Tumblr (I’m apparently a n00b) then I’ll reblog this post from topherchris in hopes that he sees it - have some code I wrote to do this:
http://snipplr.com/view/14609/migrate-wordpress-to-tumblr/
There’s this, which looked really promising until I realized all the links are 404.
Anybody found a version of that someplace or have another method?
To be clear: I’m not looking for the WP plugin that cross-posts to Tumblr. I’m looking for a total conversion tool to move something off of WP completely.
If it can’t be found, then I just might make it myself — but I don’t believe anything is ever completely lost on the internet these days.
I’m in the process of slimming down my web-related expenses (hosting, domains, etc…) - more on that later - and one part of that was to move from a self-hosted Wordpress blog to using Tumblr for my sporadic blogging.
I’ve migrated all the old posts from said Wordpress blog to here and if you’re looking for a way to do the same, I’ve posted my very rough-around-the-edges code I used to do so at Snipplr: http://snipplr.com/view/14609/migrate-wordpress-to-tumblr/
The Feltron Annual Report 2008 is now online - I encourage you to look at it as it’s a masterpiece of self-stalking and sublime graphic design.
Should you enjoy it, you might be interested in monitoring every aspect of your own life via Daytum - it’s in private beta but an invitation is often sent reasonably quickly if you register on there.
Everyone likes money. Getting it from a willing provider to your grubby hands is sadly not the most straightforward thing on the internet (unless you’re a Ugandan Scammer, apparently - I’m looking at you, George Agdgdgwngo) so those of you who are developing apps and sites that accept payment from users may well appreciate this Jumpstart Credit Card Processing PDF created by Amy Hoy (Slash7, Twistori), Thomas Fuchs (Script.aculo.us, Twistori) and Dieter Komendera (Soaked and Soaped, Abloom).
What would a year be without a year end review? Nothing, that’s what! Here’s some assorted things I appreciated this year - and like last year, these are not necessarily things that were created this year, but were new to me or were things I enjoyed in ‘08.
When a Continental Airlines flight crashed on Take-off in Denver, Colorado yesterday one news outlet had a headstart on the rest - Twitter.
Mike Wilson, a passenger on the plane, was soon twittering what was going on and thankfully reported that no one had life threatening injuries.
Tweetdeck is my Twitter client of choice. I was interested to read this article about using it as a light RSS reader and set about making it a reality.
First, I used Google Reader as my base. I already had a lot of feeds in there, I like it’s ability to manage things and I know it’s pretty reliable. I created a new folder “All Feeds” and moved all of my feeds in to this folder. Then, in Settings
Jeremy Keith posted a link on Twitter today to a post he wrote at XTech in May 2008, about a talk by Steven Pemberton called “Why You Should Have a Web Site: it’s the law! (and other Web 3.0 issues)”. I was interested by the main focus of the talk, most notably this passage on Metcalfe’s law:
These are examples of Metcalfe’s law in action. What should really happen is that you keep all your data on your website and then aggregators can distribute it across the Web. Most people won’t want to write all the angle brackets but software should enable you to do this.The concept is that you store your photos on your own web site along with your audio files, your blog posts, your listening habits - then provide an easy machine-readable method for distributing this content to other web services via aggregation. So you still use Flickr, you still use Twitter, etc - but your content resides on a server you control so that should the service go away, you don’t lose all your data. We like to sit pretty and think we can rely on these services, avoiding the hard work and time it would take for us to set up a decent personal aggregation system - after all, Flickr and the like won’t just disappear, right? The problem is, it doesn’t take much for times to change. Just ask any frequent users of Pownce. This concept has got me thinking about how I want to approach the topic. I’m leaning towards sticking with services that provide an API, then writing some simple scripts to either send the content I upload on my own site to the relevant service, or pull content I’ve uploaded to a service to my own site. This would allow me to still gain the benefits of said services (like last.fm’s iPod scrobbling app that integrates with iTunes or Twitter’s SMS functionality) while providing redundancy and going some way to ensure I don’t lose out if a service shuts its doors. Potentially I could take it another step and do automated nightly back-ups of my own server to my local machine, which in turn could then upload to a service like Amazon S3 or Mozy, so that I was covered in the event of my own server getting hosed. Sounds like a lot of work for content that is mostly only of interest to yours truly, but then I really like being able to look back on things years later to see how my life has changed. I’ll no doubt update with progress on this as I go and I’ll make any scripts I produce for the purpose available under an open source license, in case the idea appeals to anyone reading.
To those of you reading this from the UK, you may or may not be aware that the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) is changing in less than week’s time. Currently 17.5%, it will drop to 15% as of 1st December 2008. In general, this will be good news for most as it will mean slightly reduced prices on goods you buy in the UK. However, please be alert when using online stores as many software solutions will have set the 17.5% VAT rate in a way that cannot be easily altered. Ensure you’re being charged the right amount! VAT Change aims to educate business owners and software developers on the need for change and what should be done. It recently launched and is the work of a friend of a friend, so I can vouch for it’s good intentions. I have no affiliation with it’s creator, we’ve never met nor spoken! Readers outside the UK will most likely not be affected by this change, but if you’re interested in what VAT is, you can read all about it at Wikipedia. Here’s a brief snippet:
Value added tax (VAT), or goods and services tax (GST), is a consumption tax levied on value added. In contrast to sales tax, VAT is neutral with respect to the number of passages that there are between the producer and the final consumer; where sales tax is levied on total value at each stage, the result is a cascade (downstream taxes levied on upstream taxes).
