SOME RANDOM DUDE

I have been playing with Twitter for the past few months now and I have decided to temporarily take the plunge and devote much more time into it. I am planning to integrate my Twittering into this blog - which required this plugin, which required a Wordpress upgrade which ended up creating all hell with some of my plugins, which ended up clearing all my tags once someone commented, which required me to frantically try to get my site back to normal.

Good times.

If you Twitter, by all means, please head over to my profile and add me as a friend. I have been very resistant to the social networking scene as I feel many, if not most, lack substance. What I like about Twitter is the fact it is a tool that can be used however one desires - the social aspect is merely a feature. Due to this flexibility, I am going to give it a go.

Integrating some aspects of my Twittering to the blog should not take too long so they should be popping up in the next couple weeks… Along with the photoblog and the functionality updates to Some Random Dude… Yes, I know I bit off more than I can chew. Still, I think this could add a lot to the site, so I am looking forward to trying it out. Please let me know your thoughts and, by all means, Sign up for an account and add me as a friend so you can join in on the fun.
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Kellie asked a while back for personal icons for commenters. Well, thanks to a handy Wordpress Gravatar plugin, it was quickly and easily implemented on the site tonight.

I have also sneaked in a another small feature in the comments area. My hope is a couple other small features will be put in place before May 1. It may not be a monumental redesign, but improvements are going to be slow, steady and continual.

If there are any other features you would like to see, please drop me a line or leave a comment in this post.

UPDATE: Well, due to my lack of access to a PC, I failed to notice any cross-browser bugs in IE (silly me). I will try to alleviate this tonight.blogging, commenters, comments, design, gravatar, icon, implementations, improvements, plugin wordpress

I have a relatively large post coming tomorrow, so I thought now would be as good of a time to do this as any. With this year almost at an end, I thought now would be an appropriate time to express your thoughts on how this blog could improve for 2007. 2006 brought quite a few major alterations/additions to this site and I still have quite a few changes still in the queue. Still, I would like to hear from you as I am always wondering if I am missing something obvious.

Any area of the blog is open game. What do you think of the Comment Love feature? Are the weekly links or designing good segments worth while? Are there any topics I should be writing about that I have seemed to ignore? Please, comment early and often - tell me what you think and be as brutally honest as possible. 2006, additions, alterations, answers, blog, changes, community, improvements suggestions