Ok, I’ve been playing with and cleaning up my widgets and plugins after I upgraded this WordPress install to 2.6. And without realizing it at first, I broke one of my pages when I removed the SimpleTag plugin. I figured, 2.6 has great tagging now, what do I need it for?

Well, my Tag Cloud page was using a call to that plugin to generate a list of all the tags I have used…  469 to date.

So rather than reinstall the plugin just to have that cloud, I did some playing around and here’s what I came up with.

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The micro-blogging site, Twitter, has been around for awhile.  And the concept is fairly simple…

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

To that end, you are able to post a short (140 character max) message that folks have come to refer to as “tweets”. These messages lets others know what you are doing at any given time. I get the whole concept, but I never really got in to it… just never found much of a use for it, though I have tried on a few occasions.

Maybe I just don’t have enough friends? Well, friends that also use Twitter. Or that are even in to the whole social networking concept. Which is actually rather odd since just about all the friends I have these days I can pretty much trace back to having gotten connected through some sort of online means. Most from back in my AOL days. But I suppose as I have slowly delved more and more in to the world of putting content on the web via various blogs, I was bound to drift towards the micro-blogging here and there.

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I think I have settled on a new theme, but I will get in to that more later. First, I also did up my first widget. Ok, first we need to back up a step or three…

I have spent a lot of time over the last year looking for a good solution for putting my personal photos online. I will write more later, but suffice to say I have settled on JuxtaPhoto (JP) by Jeff Harrell. I have about 300 images in my gallery so far, and have lots more to go through yet.

I wanted something similar to the Flickr pools and such you see on other sites, but since JP is rather unknown, nothing exists for it… so I wrote one.

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I am spending some time this weekend looking for a new theme… with the goal of eventually building my own.

Problem is, I just do not have the time right now to dive in to figuring out how to do a WP Theme, so I need to find one that is … close… and then tweek it for now.

So, things may look a bit out of whack here and there this weekend as I test out different themes.