I’m sure there’s a reason to this but what the hell:

Last night, Mona[1] invited me out to check out “DJ Rekha”:http://www.djrekha.com/index.html visiting from NYC at Smart Bar. The venue is underground, which works fittingly with her “Basement Bhangra” tour. I got there early, so the place was empty, but the music was already going. Jimmy Singh manned the DJ booth while we waited for DJ Rekha to come out.

The place filled up by 11 and the crowd was heading to dance floor as DJ Rekha made her way out. Granted I’m no expert of bhangra music, but this was definitely something that had a nice beat. She also sync’d her music to a video compiled from previous shows, including what looked like a show a Central Park. The funny thing was that the video was mirrored, so all the text was backwards, and slightly discombobulating.

Overall – awesome music, good dancing, and fun times.

Funny moment of the night – my first ever “FaceBook rejection”. A girl I was dancing with wanted to “facebook” me and when I said no, she left.

fn1. Chicago’s Mona

I’ve been working this week to get the new site up. This time it wasn’t just a challenge in design but I had to do some significant coding to get everything working. My homepage is now running off my efforts in combining mobile posting, importing information from around the web, and quick posting.

With mobile posting, I’m now able to post text, pictures, and video straight from my cell phone. I’ll also be importing RSS feeds from other social networking sites (recently played songs from last.fm, interesting links, and news articles that I find pertinent). Finally I implemented a quick post feature that will let me post about sites, pictures, and videos I find interesting.

This is still a work in progress but I’m tired of it just sitting on the back burner. Expect more features but enjoy now .

I recently began to ponder on where the internet was going. All these great sites exist, but the each have their niche. “Corkd.com”:http://www.corkd.com is a great social networking site around catalog, finding, and organizing information about wine, “Flickr”:http://www.flickr.com is great for uploading your photos, “Del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us will catalog websites you want to bookmark. I was getting so decentralized with all my information. Sure Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are starting to offer all these great services that will let you centralize information on their platform, but I still wanted choice in which service to use for each need. That’s why I decided to write a new plugin for Textpattern that will give me this.

asv_tumblelog is built around two features:

1) Quick posting – land on a great site? Then use the new bookmarklet to quickly add a post about it. Oh and don’t worry if you’re adding a video from Viddler, Vimeo, or Youtube, the bookmarklet will automaticall Add it to del.icio.us and asv_tumblelog will post it on your site for you. Take a great shot with your cameraphone? Add it to Flickr and asv_tumblelog will post it for you.

How do I use it? Well I use it for everything, but my favorite is the power my cell phone has now. I can send a txt message to twitter, I can send a photo to Flickr, and I can send a video (from my cellphone) to Vimeo and and asv_tumblelog will post all of these to my blog without any additional effort.

It’s the George Foreman Grill of blogging. Set it and forget it!

So here’s a quickie but a goodie – a bookmarklet for your TXP blog. Just plug in your TXP install path and use the “Bookmarklet Builder”:http://subsimple.com/bookmarklets/jsbuilder.htm to make yourself a nice little bookmarklet for posting to your TXP. The code below will also take the current page’s title and selected text. You can modify as needed or if you’re not technically inclined, drop me a line and I’ll get it setup for you.

javascript:
var d=document,
w=window,
e=w.getSelection,
k=d.getSelection,
x=d.selection,
s=(e?e():(k)?k():(x?x.createRange().text:0)),
f='http://PathToYourTXPFolder/index.php',
l=d.location,
e=encodeURIComponent,
p='?bm=1&Section=SectionName&from_view=1&Category1=CategoryName&Title='+e(d.title)+'&Body='+e(s),
u=f+p;
a=function(){
  if(!w.open(u,'t','toolbar=0,resizable=0,status=1,width=800,height=800'))
    l.href=u;
}
;
if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))
  setTimeout(a,0);
else
  a();
void(0)

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