January 2012
1 post
November 2011
1 post
The Pre-Planned Random Thoughts of Fernando: F#$K... →
A while back, Fernando blogged this here on Tumblr about me.
Here’s what happened:
Lara is the bartender on Monday nights, she has the sorry duty of putting up with the awful, awful comedy of Fernando Soltero and his minions. Not to say that some aren’t hilarious… it happened now and then, but those comedians quickly moved on to other venues that were better-promoted and...
April 2011
1 post
Galaxy Tab Post
Got a Samsung Galaxy Tab a few days ago, so far so good. I’m putting it through its paces to get a feel for it as a tool overal.
So why not try tumblr.
The tumblr app could be better.
October 2010
1 post
Clone time
I’ve decided to try to make my own form of Tumblr, not out of commercial jealousy, but because I think they’ve falled just short of what I am looking for.
But for all the little nitpick things I don’t like, I do think Tumblr is really the other thing to look at nowadays. Twitter+Tumblr > Facebook, IMHO.
August 2010
8 posts
Another bug...
Since the Blackberry tumblr client doesn’t support rich text editing, it appears to send plain text.
When the plain text is edited in the web-browser-based rich text editor, the end-of-line markers are lost from the plain text so you lose all of your paragraphs as your work gets condensed into one big block of text.
Booo.
not so much mobile tumblring
The blackberry client for tumblr is not good.
Aside from the fact that my curve 8900 is showing its age and not behaving mechanically as well as I’d like, I live on it, so I would like to have decent functionality from apps written for it.
If you’re going to make a BB app at all, how about a non-suck app?
I’ll try to use tumblr more from my actual computers. At the moment,...
Blackberry Photo Upload Fail
Tried to upload a photo to my tumblelog with the BB client… I get a file dialog, navigate to where my pictues are stored, and “Loading…”
And that’s it.
No joy, and no photo upload from my Blackberry.
Okay, Honeymoon Over
I’m going to make a list of things that aren’t working for me with Tumblr… I know, I’m a fast complainer, but if people are thinking Tumblr is going to take on Facebook and Twitter, there are a few things they’re going to have to work on from my perspective.
Quickies:
Speed. It’s slow.
The Dashboard vs “homepage” is not intuitive when navigating...
Metadata please
It would be cool if tumblr entries could have some metadata attached to them.
For example, if I’m telling you about an event, I should be able to include some geo and calendar info. Maybe an embedded microformat block, maybe some RDF, etc.
Right now, if I mention that I’m going to speak somewhere, or that I’m throwing a party, or I want to tell people about Pub Quiz night at...
Different content objects
On first blush, why do I have to pick a content type to post? A few years ago maybe, but nowadays I would think we’ve arrived at a sort of file-or-link approach, where the file type can be decerned and the link type, well… Facebook does some interesting stuff with wall posts of links.
I might actually be disappointed that this is the approach, we’ll see. Just thinking outloud.
Testing the Blackberry client
I am still cursed with a blackberry (it is showing its age and android development is my direction next…), so I’m trying out the BB client here.
So far so good, though no rich text editing apparently.
Long time no tumblr
Wow, they’ve got a pretty product here in Tumblr, it kind of feels like a possible replacement for the rich-content-ness of Facebook for when I don’t want to publish stuff to my long-neglected personal blog thing. I don’t know if it enables private posting to followers-only, but whatever.
Still playing around with it, let’s see what’s up here.
March 2008
2 posts
WatchThis is the “pilot” for a video blog project I’m working on with a friend of mine (Marie). What do you think?
June 2007
1 post
Tumblr Support?
For some reason I can’t sign in via Firefox. I have several extensions and all that, but I figured I’d ping tumblr support to see if they had any sort of “oh, yeah, don’t use ___ ” or “here’s a workaround” or at least “hey, we got your support request and we give a shit.” Nope. I can sign in with a different browser (Epiphany, which is...
April 2007
1 post
First Post!
Hey, yet another blogging platform… I’m pondering making a tumblr.danhugo.com link if this turns out to be fun, but we’ll see. In the mean time, hey, playtime.