m.timbu.org will get you to a mobile friendly look at the blog, courtesy of the plugin from mobiforge.

Tell me if it works for you.

No I haven’t finally broken down and bought and mac for home use. I finally succumbed to using  WordPress for blogging. Previously I had used MovableType for a very long time and at one time, prior to the 3.x release I loved the product. It was 3.x with it’s thicket of intertwined files including each other – that is where the system started to break down for me. Then each release had plugins that were a little difficult to install combined with subtle incompatibilities. It just became a waste of time. So now it’s time for something different.

So without further ado – My Top Five Reasons to use WordPress

• The plugins are easy to install.
• It’s easy to figure out what to edit.
• The themes are easy to install and adjust.
• It’s trivial to make it look good on a mobile phone.
• Joe uses it, it must be cool.

Finally, like any good open source project, there is a significant number of people contributing to the ecosystem.

Now, I just need to get twitter, friendfeed and flickr updates to show up in-line and my work is done.

If you are using an RSS reader you might need to update it to point to the new feed url.

There are some moments in my life where I knew something has changed permanently.

Last night I got an email about a young woman who died tragically. When you read something like that it either far away or far too close. In this case it was in the middle. I didn’t really know Julie in real life, but I read her blog. She was a friend of a friend. Hearing of her death, clicking on her rss feed and clicking the link to her last post was a moment I won’t soon forget. Her blogspot “Location” left as it always was … “amidst the water & the trees, minnesota”. My heart goes out to those who lost a dear one.

Part three of my tribute to Lore and his seven basic blog posts.

CIMG5826, originally uploaded by timbu.

We recently had some ducks overnight with us. They were hatched at Matthew’s school and will be released later this summer. It’s was so cute watching these three ducks follow the children around the yard. I was relieved that we got them back without any unfortunate mishap!

Part two of my tribute to Lore and his seven basic blog posts.

I just paid too much money for a few sheets of paper with a cheap soft cover. You should buy one too so you can be cool like other bloggers.

Bloggers are known for their ability to find a product and flog it like there is no tomorrow all while avoiding the uncomfortable truth that they are being paid on each and every sale and the item in question was given to them for free. It’s the classic Judas kiss, where you trade your ethics for a bag of gadgets you don’t need. It’s all a part of their desire to be “citizen journalists” only instead of the traditional demarcation between news and commercial speech bloggers blend them seamlessly so you have no idea which is which any more.

Lore Sjöberg opined today that there are really only seven basic blog posts. It’s sad and mostly true.

I think I’ll try and write an example of each of these and see where it leads.

I don’t get much time lately to play with web toys, but I’ve been really intrigued by the possibilities offered by the new CSS grid frameworks. I think it’s a bit too soon to call these CSS files frameworks, but they offer some great possibilities.

I took apart a MovableType template and have applied on at my test blog. Check out the coolness that happens when you go to that page and click control, then use your scroll wheel. I didn’t make the whole template set yet — I haven’t had much spare time lately.

Grid templates:

• Typogridphy — I like this one since it does a really nice job of both the grid and typography.
• Blueprint — Pretty good documentation.
• Yui Grids – Really easy to use with some super cool automation.
• Blueprint Generator — fill in a form and the custom CSS gets emitted. Awesome if you know what you want.

I ran into a weird citation of my blog on an academic paper. Implicit Structure and
Dynamics of Blogspace written by Eytan Adar.

Yet-Another-Google-Api was announced. This one is an ajax api for language detection and translation.