For My Own Amusement » Uncategorized http://www.formyownamusement.com Bits and pieces that will likely only ever amuse me Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:48:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Lorem for Twitter mock ups – 144 characters of doom http://www.formyownamusement.com/2010/01/11/lorem-for-twitter-mock-ups/ http://www.formyownamusement.com/2010/01/11/lorem-for-twitter-mock-ups/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:21:57 +0000 Timothy Churchward http://www.formyownamusement.com/2010/01/11/lorem-for-twitter-mock-ups/

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad mini

– as generated from TextMate.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad min.

– slightly tweaked by me for a complete ending.

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So rather than having everything in Kindling I’ve slowly been moving the high volume low value feeds to Sparks.

My hope is rather than an hour + per day I can limit RSS reading to 5 minutes yet still feel like I’m not missing something.

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To remove the border skin from a Flex 2 Button or other Flex Components use the following CSS:



skin: ClassReference("mx.skins.ProgrammaticSkin");
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The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time

1Password

1Password

It’s another great reason why I use 1Password.

One of it’s best features is the Password Generator.

1Password's in-built Password Generator

1Password's in-built Password Generator

For any site or service I sign up for I use the Password Generator to create something nice and random. 1Password then remembers it all for me. So I only remember my “1 Password” and 1Password remembers the rest.

I thoroughly recommend it. It’s integration in to all major browsers is fantastic.

]]> http://www.formyownamusement.com/2008/12/30/the-top-500-worst-passwords-why-i-use-1password/feed/ 0 Elegant Grunge http://www.formyownamusement.com/2008/10/16/elegant-grunge/ http://www.formyownamusement.com/2008/10/16/elegant-grunge/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:59:35 +0000 Timothy Churchward http://www.formyownamusement.com/?p=28 In that I still have not created my own theme I thought I’d change the one I had been using. As a tribute to my friend Mike Tyson I’m using his theme Elegant Grunge.

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There’s a few good sites I’ve found with some good themes. At this stage I don’t know what path I’ll take: write/design one from scratch; find one that’s close and update it; or just use a pre-existing theme entirely. We shall see.

I might install one tonight just for fun. This one Notepad Chaos is quite beautiful.

Resources:

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  • AddThis.com
  • All in one SEO Pack
  • del.icio.us for WordPress
  • Google Analytics for WordPress
  • Lightbox 2
  • NextGEN Gallery
  • Postalicious
  • WordPress.com Stats
  • WordPress Automatic Upgrade
  • WP-SpamFree
I haven’t really configured them too well and I’ll probably end up removing the Delicious ones.
I’m also intending to install Mike’s 404 handler extension.
Anyone have any suggestions for other WP plugins or extensions worth making use of?
]]> http://www.formyownamusement.com/2008/09/23/configuration/feed/ 0 Getting started http://www.formyownamusement.com/2008/09/13/getting-started/ http://www.formyownamusement.com/2008/09/13/getting-started/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:35:27 +0000 Timothy Churchward http://formyownamusement.com/?p=3 Well, here we are getting started with an all new blog and website. With the recommendation from my friend Mike I’ve opted to go for WordPress. Lets see how she goes.

I’ve previously been using iWeb on my MobileMe (formally .mac) account … however, iWeb lacks blog features like categorisation, tagging and custom site maps (ie. my site ended up with yucky long paths like http://formyownamusement.com/ForMyOwnAmusement/Blog/Blog.html

Well, lets see how we go getting this themed and customised the way I  want ;-)

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