Gary Gale

Posterous continues to impress and is fast becoming the main source of blog posts, both on my Posterous blog and autoposted onto my main blog.

We're all good Web 2.0 citizens these days and that means we tag everything; the Posterous FAQ has this to say on the subject of tags: "Add tags simply in the subject of your email using the syntax ((tag: apple, gadgets)). You can see your tags on the homepage of your site and click on them to see those posts."

So, in the continued spirit of experimentation, this post is tagged with "experimentation", "posterous", "autopost" and "wordpress" via the subject line "In the Spirit of Experimentation, Part 2 ((tag: experimentation, posterous, autopost, wordpress))"; let's see how this gets reflected in the post and in the autoposted WordPress version.

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Here we go again. I'm not entirely sure which is worse; being wide awake and up at 4.00 AM or deciding to write a blog post about it.

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There's nothing like being at the seaside; the cry of seagulls, the tang of ozone in the air, Blackfriars Bridge, The Gherkin and St. Paul's Cathedral in the distance ...

Blackfriars Bridge? It's easy to forget that the Thames is tidal and if you time it right that there's several stretches of beach at low tide.

Some parts of the shoreline even have sand, though the daily high tide does mean that sandcastles are seldom seen.

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A combination of oversleeping, train cancellation and the temporary loss of my Oyster Card, once I'm on a train naturally, does not make for an auspicious start to the week after the Bank Holiday.

But then the final straw; no coffee at my local station. "Shut Happens".

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This weekend's clear out uncovered these two items of apparel.

The one at the back is a replica shirt from the always-the-underdog- even-when-they-get-to-the-Superbowl. The one at the front is from the, defunct since 1998, World League of American Football and NFL Europe team the London Monarchs.

The former reached the Superbowl four times but have never managed to quite get there. I still live in hope.

The latter won World Ball 1 in 1991 at the old Wembley Stadium. I was there and it was an amazing season with only 1 loss during the entire regular season.

What a lot of hopes and dreams invested in two pieces of clothing.

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Posterous is a service that just begs for experimentation; not only because it's a beautifully simplistic yet rich service but also because the Help and FAQ pages can be a little bit light on detail for some of the less obvious questions; probably to avoid scaring those of a less-power-user-frame-of-mind away.

So the Posterous FAQ at https://posterous.com/faq says this "We'll do smarter things for photos, MP3's, documents and video (both links AND files)".

Link eh? In the spirit of experimentation let's try this, firstly from the easy and obvious one ... twitpic.com

... and rival yfrog.com ...

... and from my Flickr photostream ...

... and finally a more challenging one, from my Facebook photo album ...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3454882&id=757562989

... there's only one way to find out, so let's send this to Posterous right now and see what happens; all in the spirit of experimentation naturally.

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And not the track by Faithless either. 3.21 AM in Teddington and no one else seems to be awake.

"I can't get no sleep ..."

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This week's trawl through what appeared on the interwebs and made it into my Delicious bookmarks.

• The march towards all things bacon flavoured continues unabated; now you can get bacon (and mint) flavoured, err, mints and that get-you-going-in-the-morning first cup of coffee can now be bacon flavoured as well. Where's this going to end?
• Mac OS X 10.6, AKA Snow Leopard, got officially released today. Some people rushed out, bought it and installed it. But as ever, there's some compatibility problems, not the least of which (for me at least) is that the Cisco VPN client may (or may not) work properly. It's also for Intel based Macs only so a lot of PowerPC based Mac owners are going to be sad.
• First reviews of the new Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy book, not written by Douglas Adams on account of him being dead, find it "not really funny" and "less a case of So Long And Thanks For All The Fish and more a case of So Long And Thanks For All The Money".
• #wherecamp, the geogeeks (un)conference of choice, is coming to Europe in the form of the aptly named #WhereCampEU. Naturally, I'll be there.
• While walking into Soho, I found one of London's lost streets right under my feet. Literally.
• And finally, real men don't rock their child to sleep, they write a shell script to do it for them.

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No Snow Leopard for you with your PowerPC chip.

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