A friend of mine tweeted that someone was looking at his blog in Japanese. That sounded interesting so I thought I would try the same.
Sadly, I realised that my blog looks more sophisticated in Japanese than it does in English. Maybe that’s the novelty factor.
The obvious next step was to “reverse translate” some of the text to see how it came out. I decided to reverse translate the tagline – I think about things. I wrote some of those thoughts down. Continue Reading »
I just discovered that with a bit of tinkering I could get my photoblog posts from this…
to this…
These posts are auto-created by flickr when I email images to a specific email address. I never liked that flickr repeated the image title and “uploaded by” under the image, it was a bit overpowering. Admittedly, I can’t remember if I tried this when I set it up as it was about 18m ago but it was all pretty simple.
Here’s what I did…
(1) Went to the blog settings on flickr. If you’re already logged in, click here. Otherwise, navigate to You –> Your Account –> Tab: Extending Flickr and in the “Your blogs section” select to edit. Of course, if you don’t have a blog already setup, you’ll need to do that first.
(2) Choose “layout” and then select to customise and you’ll see an edit screen where you can tinker to your heart’s content.
The markup is pretty straightforward and with a bit of experimenting you can probably get it how you want it. I was also able to add some additional text, in my case the blog link, which saves me tapping this out into each email.
I think it’s looking much neater, check it out for yourself.
As part of my ongoing plans to experiment with how things work, I’ve sprung for a hosting package and moved my blog to be hosted directly within my domain so this blog is now on davereinhardt.com. All posts have (eventually) been migrated and over the next few weeks I’m sure I’ll work out how gadgets and plugins work as well.
In case its of interest, here’s my migration to-do list