As mentioned here before. on my personal blog I decided to install Habari. While I still enjoy working with WordPress here and elsewhere, I have found Habari suits my personal blog quite well since I do not need all the bells and whistles which I use elsewhere.
Unfortunately, the one thing the platform does lack is a very large stash of themes. This fact could hinder many from using it considering most of the themes that are available favor minimalist designs. While this is not an issue for the current adopters, I can see why others are reluctant. In an effort to add to the development of the project, I decided to take a shot at adapting some themes and came across these 7 sources of wisdom.
A little while back the folks at Mashable teamed up the Disqus guys and UberVU to amp up the Disqus commenting system. The goal of Disqus and UberVU was for the blogger to get the discussion back at the blogs and not just spread out over the social media sites. It was a lovely idea and Mashable was a great place to test out the new system.
Called Social Media Reactions, anyone using Disqus can now soak some of the conversation back up into their arena. I already have it running here, but Mashable gets wayyyyyy more traffic and you might want to check it out there since the service is on a limited rollout at the moment.
In 1995, there was a lovely little system called the Sega Genesis. As kids we huddled around it and our television screens to delve into the fantasy worlds of Sonic the Hedgehog and Mortal Kombat. One of the stand out games turned out to be a too often forgotten Comix Zone.
Sure the gameplay is ridiculously dated by our standards. Sure the game came out after most of the consoles user base was angry enough to move onto something else. But the game was built on the double whammy of geek, it was a video game about a comic artist stuck in a comic book which functioned kind of like Kung Fu. (more…)
A while back in a move to extend their user base, social networking site, Mixi, changed minimum user age from 18 to 15. Naturally this move put them in a bit of a legal pickle. Under-aged users tends to lead to some drama, no matter where the site is based. To counter the threat of predators and to stay within the “Dating Site Regulation Act”, they have decided to ban dating altogether.
It seems like an odd move to ban dating on a social site, but it is a good move to try and avoid lawsuits. The big gaping whole in the plan comes from the fact that the ban techncally only applies to opposite sex dating. Same sex relationships (likely no matter the age of the participants) have a loophole.
Since most of the folks that signed up for Quake Live in the beginning were more seasoned FPS gamers, there was no way I was going to join up and get slaughtered every time I tried to play. Even though Quake Live is fitted with a matching system to help out the less apt players, we were not in full force in the beginning. It is not that we do not love playing these games, just some of us are not that great at them.
Fast forward two weeks after Quake Live became an open beta, I figured it was safe to hop in and get a little bit of fragging done. (more…)
As mentioned here before. on my personal blog I decided to install Habari. While I still enjoy working with WordPress here and elsewhere, I have found Habari suits my personal blog quite well since I do not need all the bells and whistles which I use elsewhere.
