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Leapfroglog slightly screwed

Due to a screwed up WordPress upgrade from 2.1 to 2.1.1 this blog is now slightly borked. Most notably, the custom theme I so painstakingly created is lost, as well as all the images in the posts that were not included via Flickr. I’ll see if I can rescue some stuff from old backups. Until then, you’ll have to do with the default theme (most of you won’t notice considering that you’re reading the blog in your feed reader anyway).

That’ll teach me to do an upgrade while ill…

Update: I’ve managed to restore most of what I lost during the upgrade. If you come across anything funny, please let me know. Regular blogging will continue from this point on.

Leapfroglog now with MonsterID

MonsterID for Kars Alfrink

Just a quick note to let my readers know the comments are now adorned with cute little MonsterIDs. I used this cool plug-in to generate unique monster pictures based on the email address a commenter leaves behind. Curious what yours looks like? Leave a comment and see. The image shown here is my monster (based on kars at leapfrog dot nl).

I used to have gravatars, but they didn’t work as well because hardly any commenters actually have a gravatar registered. These MonsterIDs do the hard work for the user. I like having images in the comments to be able to quickly see who commented and which comments are from the same user. It also helps tell apart people that leave behind the same name.

And, of course, these monsters look great!

I’ve been blog tagged

First of all: happy new year to those I haven’t yet met in person! I’ll kick off the year with a post (thanks Peter). Never one to pass up a meme1, I’ll tell you five things you might not know about me (this could get embarrassing).

  1. I enjoy playing roleplaying games (the old school pen & paper variety) and have been doing it on and off since puberty. Like many I started out with D&D, CoC and Vampire. The past few year’s I’ve been playing a lot of indie RPGs. Playing these games (and some SNES classics) might have gotten me interested in interaction and game design… The best indie game I’ve played so far? Dogs in the Vineyard.
  2. In my graduation year at the Utrecht School of Arts I spent three months doing research, writing a thesis and teaching at a media lab in Costa Rica. Not only did that fire my appetite for travelling to tropical locales, but it also made me determined to start working in the internet industry. One of the research prototypes I came up with was a Flickr-like prototype. I might throw that back up on-line sometime this year.
  3. I like to cook (although my old-style electrical stove is giving me headaches, gotta get that kitchen refitted). My favourite foods are Italian (my parent’s fault), Japanese (got started on that because of the martial art I practice) and Indonesian (although my girlfriend is best at cooking that).
  4. I’m a horror aficionado, watching scary horror films is a guilty pleasure of mine. The best horror flick I saw last year? That must have been The Descent.
  5. Recently I’ve started having an interest in wine, this must be the definite turning point for me becoming a snob. I have yet to develop any real taste and have a hard time describing what my mouth tells me (does that sound obscene?) I do seem to prefer heavy Italian wines (such as Nero d’Avola). Matt Skinner has been a good help.

Now to tag five others… I guess I’ll bother Edgar, Tom, Iskander, Alper and Almar with this silly meme. Sorry guys!

1 Even though it’s been raging since January last year and reached two peaks: first around July and second in December (thanks Technorati)!

Welcome to the new site!

Well, the move is complete. I’ve moved my blog over to my own domain. It was lying around doing nothing, so I may as well put it to use.

This blog uses WordPress 2 as it’s CMS. It was a breeze to import all the Blogger posts. Nice one, WP team!

I’ve forwarded all the RSS feeds to Feedburner, so if you’ve subscribed to that feed (which means you’re reading this), you won’t have to change anything.

To-do:

  • Create a new theme (now running the pretty “Almost Spring” by Becca)
  • Pull in my Flickr photo’s
  • Pull in my del.icio.us links (done!)
  • Create an about page
  • Create an archive page
  • Figure out the IA for this site – to tag or not to tag?
  • Categorize or tag all my old posts (not looking forward to that)

Dashboard

This weekend I had some time to fiddle around with my homepage at www.leapfrog.nl. I decided to create a dashboard-like page that shows my latest contributions to several sites. I’m no programmer, so RSS Digest was a great help in glueing everything together. Thanks to the continueing opening up of the web’s content through RSS, now I have one place to show what I’ve been up to recently. Joy!

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