July 31, 2008 at 3:13 pm | Filed under the internets
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
My blog’s word cloud:
My tumblr’s word cloud:
I’m a big fan of typography and color (and the art of fence installation huhlolz) so it’s not surprising that I am enjoying creating word cloud after word cloud a little too much. I especially love how the words beautifully relate to each other, despite the jumble and the random placement.
Some weeks ago, a bunch of us from The Man Blog trooped all the way down to (Cub)Alabang to celebrate Adam Mordo’s birthday (you can read about the party over at Jen Mordo’s blog). This is what happened the next day:
Marco, the angry site guy + a drunken Mike Villar is obviously a recipe for comedic awesomeness. Mordo and I guest (well, I was more like a pretty little prop looking puny sammiched between two big d00dz) in this latest Fobcast (now in video!). Topics discussed:
My geek panties are wet: finally, WordCamp Philippines! Damn right I’ll be there, if only to have my photo taken with the most important Matt in the world.
I remember the first time I introduced myself to WP: it was the day Pope John Paul died. It was foreign and all gibberish and no amount of reading the documentation helped. I absolutely hated it. An entry about Wordpress I wrote three years ago, after a couple of weeks of trying to make sense out of it:
I FUCKING HATE WORDPRESS FOR BEING SO FUCKING COMPLICATED WITH ITS PHP AND FUCKED UP CODES. YOU TWEAK IT AND IT WORKS FINE AND THEN YOU DO SOMETHING ELSE AND THE PREVIOUS CUSTOMIZATION FUCKS THE FUCK UP AND SO TO MAKE THINGS BETTER LIKE A FUCKING PHILLIPS COMMERCIAL OR HOWEVER THE FUCK YOU SPELL IT, YOU HAVE TO TAKE OUT THE FIRST CUSTOMIZATION JUST SO IT’D LOOK THE WAY IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE, BUT REALLY, IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO LOOK THAT FUCKING WAY BECAUSE YOU WANT IT TO LOOK LIKE SOMETHING ELSE BUT BECAUSE IT’S FUCKED UP AND BECAUSE WORDPRESS SUCKS MICHAEL JACKSON’S COCK YOU HAVE TO MAKE DO WITHOUT THE PRETTIFYING CUSTOMIZATION.
GOD, THIS WORLD SUCKS.
I ran back to my LJ overrides after that. I gave Wordpress another shot a year later. It’s been two years and here I am, absolutely in love with it. So devoting a whole Saturday to nothing else but WP? Awesomecakes.
WordCamp Philippines will be held on September 6, 2008 at the Augusto-Rosario Gonzalez Theater in College of St. Benilde. Organized by Mindanao Bloggers. See ya there =)
June 15, 2008 at 6:14 pm | Filed under the internets
Two things that have been eating up my e-life lately:
1. Plurk
Plurk is a crazy version of Twitter. It’s a bit confusing at first but once you get the hang of it, you’ll find yourself using it more than you do Twitter (whose Fail Whale is getting a bit exasperating). The more you plurk and the more you respond to other people’s plurks (there’s a threading feature, so it’s like one big chatroom/message board in there), the more karm you get. As your karma goes up, you get more emoticons and more abilities (you can change your timeline name and your username). I really suck at explaining things, so come join the fun here (yes, that’s my referral link, plz use).
Popmundo is an online roleplaying game and community where the players strive for fame in a virtual music industry. The game is played in real time and the game keeps on going even when you’re not logged on.
Popmundo is not a traditional video game with animated graphics and sound. It’s more of a imaginative management game and playful community where you log on a couple of times a week to work on your career.
You never play against the computer. All characters you encounter in the game are played by real people across the globe.
Ever since I uninstalled Sims 2 from my laptop (I need more RAM!), I’ve been looking for a game to satisfy my God complex. Popmundo isn’t exactly like that and it’s not really as fun, but it keeps me entertained. Since the game is in real time, it’s a bit slow and fame isn’t instant (I entered the game 23 days ago and my character Ayanna Wishart is a bottom-dwelling nobody from New York City)— it actually requires “hard work”.
First, proof that I was at iBlog 4’s after-party last Saturday. Because, my friends, the law of the internet is: PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!!! (or PICS OR NOT TRUE!!!):
THERE’S A NORMAL LOOKING PENNY, HELGA, AND ANNE.
AND THEN THERE’S MIKEY.
I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT LUIS DID TO BIM, BUT IT CAN’T BE GOOD.
In today’s episode, we tackle pressing matters such as your newfound internet fame, how not to come across as an attention whore when you’re, well, pretending to NOT be one (and obviously failing at it), missing doctypes, swearing off dating bloggers (but there is an exception, apparently), why screaming Japanese gibberish in a really high-pitched voice at 3 in the morning can be annoying to some people, and how to properly respond to stalker-ish blog entry mentions about you.
Hi, my name's Helga Weber and welcome to my personal site. I'm 23. My first socio-political scandal will happen at the age of 35 and will include men, sushi, an African country, and lots of money. My lover is the greatest. More?
Hi, my name's Helga Weber and welcome to my personal site. I'm 23. My first socio-political scandal will happen at the age of 35 and will include men, sushi, an African country, and lots of money. My lover is the greatest. 
