Category: Blogging

Rick Garrett, over at All tenderloins, all the time, has put together a great theme website dedicated to the Indiana Tenderloin!  You can’t call yourself a Hoosier unless you’ve had a Tenderloin & Rick is in search of the best the state has to offer.  Head on over and check his site out!

Decided to change the Daily Twitter summary to a Weekly summary. Although I like the daily updates to the Blog, it’s to much clutter.

WordPress for BlackBerry › WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta.

I’ve been testing this application since it was released & for V1 it’s pretty good!  I’ve used various plug-ins to automate posting while mobile.  This application solves all of that & makes Mo-Blogging a piece of cake.  If you are a Blogger & a Blackberry user, check it out, I think you will be very happy with the results.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to keep up with all of my Social Networking responsibilities (Blog, Podcast, Twitter, Facebook & Flickr). As I was driving tonight (in a BAD rain storm) I got to thinking how I could make the most impact with the least amount of effort…

Turns out a LOT of other people share the same interest as there are a myriad of plug-ins for WordPress designed to link all of the various Social Networking sites together. My goal: Post an update/picture/video to a single location and have that information populate the Blog, update Twitter & ultimately Facebook.

After a little bit of research and some php editing I think I finally have everything working the way I want it. Since I have a different audience with each application it’s important to have control of who gets updates and who doesn’t.  Normally, I usually want to broadcast to everyone.

My setup to broadcast to everyone:

• Email (from PC/Blackberry) to a pre-defined email address
• Postie for WordPress pickups the message and creates a post
• Twitter Tools auto posts any new Blog entry
• Facebook uses a Twitter application to post Tweets to my wall.

All in all it’s a pretty simple process that allows me to post to one group or many.  Now I just have to come up with content that people are interested in!

Getting ready for a few upcoming (non-business) trips & searching the web for tools for blogging from the Blackberry.  Anyone have suggestions for tools to check out?  I can’t believe there are no WordPress apps for the BB!

I have the mobile plugin for wordpress that allows me to post while mobile but it’s pretty limited.  No way to upload photos from the phone…

The Facebook & Twitter apps work really well & I plan on continuing to use those.  Perhaps I should hook Twitter to the Blog? Hmmmmm….

Another flawless upgrade using the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin!  wOOt!

Been a while since my last post so I thought I’d post some random thoughts & observations…

IndyScan.com was once a site for Indiana Scanner Frequencies (4-years ago). Interesting looking at the Blog Logs & seeing the referrals from outdated scanner lists. People are still ending up here when they look for Indy 500 frequencies… Sorry folks, not doing that anymore…

Land Shark Lager (Jimmy Buffet Beer) is, in my opinion, NOT worth the premium price!

Why is it when you order mulch the $30 per yard premium to have them spread it sounds rediculous & when you’re spreading it sounds like a bargin?

Jott.com is one of those web tools I wish I thought of… I just hope they don’t ruin it by implementing ads the wrong way… PLEASE offer a subscription model to those of us willing to pay for it!!!

Szechwan Mahi-Mahi @ Kona Jacks in Indy… Perfect light lunch!

Upcoming blog posts to include my review of a no-kneed bread recipe, my favorite kitchen knife & an ultra precision probe thermometer.