Three Monkees & Me

I've decided to put my 1996 Kawasaki Zephyr 750 up for sale in order to fund the purchase of my 'dream' bike.  She's got 72,000km's on the clock, and is in very good condition.  I've owned the bike for about 18months, and in that time, it's only done between 3,000 and 4,000 km's.  It also has a Ventura Rack.

I briefly mentioned Ping.fm in my previous blog entry, but this site caught my interest, and I've been spending some time working on a Joomla 1.5 package that integrates Ping.fm updates with a joomla site.

Basically, Ping.fm can send your message to a whole stack of social networking sites such as Twitter, Plurk (my personal fave), Tumble, Pownce, Facebook etc.  They also have the ability to send the message to a Custom URL. It's utilising this CustomURL that gave me the idea of writing a component that will receive your status messages from Ping.fm, so that even those who don't subscribe to any social networking sites can see what you've been up to.

(Image grabbed from the Ping.fm blog, hope you don't mind guys!)

Social Networking getting you down?  Finding it hard to keep up with all those 'imaginary' or virtual friends?  Well here's another one to add to the list.  Plurk.  Plurk has taken a different approach to Twitter, by displaying messages  on a timeline.  I won't go into too much detail here, you can either head on over to the Plurk website for a look see, OR, you can click the Plurk Icon in the 'Stalk me on' module on the left hand side of this page.

Which leads me on to 'Stalker'.  That's it there, on the left, my very first Joomla module.  For all the details on this plug-in, have a look at the Joomla Modules page.

The kitchen has FINALLY been done (will put up some photos later), although we just need to paint now.  Once finances are a bit better, we'll get that done.  Hopefully it'll be before mum's next visit!! The extension is on hold for now though, at least until we can afford it!