iPad posting!

by Deep Thinker on 2 October, 2010, no comments

So this post now has been sent from my iPad using email.
And just because, let me include a picture, too, just for the heck of it.

Image

(This is The Mad Thinker – a slightly less well known Marvel supervillain, who likes to build big robots. – Maybe I should change my user name? Oh, and I just googled the picture, but I this looks like “Art by John Byrne” to me.)

Sent from my iPad

Testing posting by email

by Deep Thinker on 17 September, 2010, no comments

I have tried now a few times to use the “Share on posterous”-Bookmark to post interesting websites to this blog. Didn’t work a single time.
 Let’s see if this one ends up in email-limbo, too.

Update: Well, it worked. Format was a bit screwed up (had to remove an extra linebreak), but that seems to work at least.

Themed

by Deep Thinker on 9 August, 2010, no comments

So I got myself a new and really great theme called Tabby 2 (fully customizable) by a guy called Cory Watilo (great work, thanks!).

It’s got just the right touch of simplicity, and I managed to customise it, without knowing any HTML – I’ve made the height of the upper title larger, so that my logo would fit. I also made everything white.

(I do like my logo – I promise, I will properly attribute who made the thought bubble and the font I’m using once I’m further on with the website.)

I’ll probably fiddle around with it some more; but I like the general design now.

Great.

by Deep Thinker on 7 August, 2010, no comments

Posterous just ate a post.

Nope, it didn’t. Post made it through (see below).

Yup – stupid.

by Deep Thinker on 7 August, 2010, no comments

Okay, sending posts by email is very opaque and unreliable. I’ve sent two posts, who seemed to have gone into Nirvana, and for all I know, may have ended up on someone else’s website. Not happy.

So my trial account at thoughtexperiment.squarespace.com  has expired a few days ago, and I thought to try out another free option instead while I decide if I really need a blog.

I wanted to try out Tumblr first – but the name “Thought Experiment” was already taken – apparently, by a dead guy – so I went for Posterous.

Up to now, not so impressed. The web management GUI is pretty horrible, compared to Squarespace (but hey, it’s free!), and MarsEdit does not work with Posterous (it would have worked with Tumblr – sigh). Trying to send posts via email seems to be hit and miss.

Also not really happy with the look of the website – I’d like to have a nice and clean black and white, but there’s a yellow posterous badge, an RSS icon I can’t get rid of, and a profile picture which is really superfluous.

Up to now, Squarespace was better – but not worth the money yet.

Oh well. Let’s see how it goes.

And another try

by Deep Thinker on 7 August, 2010, no comments

I really think this posting by email is pretty stupid.
Let’s see if third time’s the charm…