Had a playful evening tonight and hacked some odds and ends together to produce a timeline of my Facebook status update RSS feed. Nice Eye candy that can be found here. Since I spend so much time at a computer I have been updating my status regularly and it paints an interesting picture.
I grabbed some code from the StatusPress & SIMILE Timeline, thanks!
All rev’ed up, just got back from a ride & swim, the sun is setting, the kookaburras are singing. Feeling like I’ve been active enough to write something so here goes.
Its about t-45 days till I make tracks for the intrepid India. In preparation I’ve gone all out and purchased a professional digital SLR camera. The Nikon D80 Camera from Digital Photographics Ausustralia, who I can recommend highly I ordered on the Friday and it arrived on the Tuesday (with registered post). Now I just need to work out how to carry the thing discreetly, its about as chunky as they get.
Sadly, due to a lack of funds I’ve had to put getting the canvas prints on hold, the images are ready to go just awaiting funds… so stay tuned. Or pick one you would like printed on canvas from the photoblog, and I’ll arrange it for a small fee.
In other non-news, I’ve been getting distracted from university and hanging out with lovely people more and more. Just the other night had some friends over and had a play with the new camera. You can see the photos here. They were all taken at night in low light levels without a flash, so might seem a little grainy.
Also been doing a bit more sporty type activities of late, including yoga, rock climbing at kangaroo point, riding, swimming in a lovely pool surrounded by trees at sunset and bush walking (photos) when I get the chance to get away from Brisbane. Not bad all in all… at this rate I’ll be fit in no time, mind you I have a bit of catching up to do.
Also knocked up a flyer for the Forkless Feast, run by Griffith University Food Co-operative (see below).
Last and least, is Facebook. I’ve recently sold my sole, or rather all my personal information to the highest bidder (probably Viacom). The web based social networking application is pretty amazing at its ability to suck time from you, while actually containing minimal content. Users rarely post anymore than messages to each other saying hello, photos, and the infimus ’status update’ (which I have hacked to be displayed directly on this blog). I have been attempting to share interesting content, however so far I haven’t received much feedback about my shared posts. Also a rather frustrating point is the lack of statistics available to users. It is not possible to review how people are using your data, if they are at all and thus difficult to make decisions about howto use the technology more effectively. When compared to an open source blog, (such as this one), I have all the data about who (not your names, but a number unless you have some sort of don’t track me addon) comes here, how often and what they look at… all of this is completely absent from Facebook. I could rave on forever about Facebook at the moment, but I’ll save it for a concise post in the future.
I’m going to upgrade my blog soon to version 2.3 of Wordpress… so things might look a little different next time you drop by. Wish me luck with my exam study, and exams just life generally. Hope your all well and making the most of things where ever you may be.
Your blogger friend,
Nathan
