Tech Jawa > 2008 > April

Well, as of today, Evan Broder put me, and another [russian] person in charge of this plugin, which hasn’t been updated in a long time… maybe a year or more. After some tinkering with the Google Source page, fixing everything up there, removing all the old bug reports, I created a new website for it, if you’re somebody who uses a WordPress powered blog, but still have/had a LiveJournal, I highly suggest this plugin, it will automatically crosspost your entries to your LiveJournal, people who have friended you can even be forced to comment on your WordPress blog rather than your LiveJournal!

For more information please see the new website:

http://www.LJ-XP.com

Update to this, we are now in the official wordpress repository of plugins. Your existing version SHOULD update automatically, if not please be sure to download the latest version.

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“Are you free tonight?” Is the famous line by Michelle Williams, who I have not seen in a film since The United States of Leland (2003). However I feel Williams is very fresh in this movie, and nearly outshines the stars, Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGreggor, who start the movie off in a quite awkward scene, which totally threw me off in the beginning, and had me expecting something far worse than the final product.

The film continues to evolve quite rapidly, into McGreggor being “inadvertently” inducted into “The List” which is a quite appalling thought, of men and women who simply exchange number, and then call eachother asking if they are “free tonight?” and proceed to meet at a hotel for sex, without ever knowing eachothers name, or what the other does for a living, and these are the RULES of the club.

However, setting aside the strange rules of the club, the movie delivers. It keeps you guessing and guessing on the many plot twist that happen, even if some are predictable. The film sets you up for some thrills along the way, some of which fall short of their intended goal, but overall, as a whole, the film was worth the money.

Its a great first film by director Marcel Langenegger

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Well I want to start off by saying this is my first review of anything, I thought it would be good to do it on something I just recently discovered! So here it goes!

So I’ve never actually thought twitter could be useful, until today.

Having Twitter integrate so seamlessly into my blog works wonderfully! (See right hand column for what I’m talking about!)

I’ve also integrated Twitter into my Facebook account, via the application TwitterSync. I chose this application, because the standard “official” Twitter syncing application keeps updating your status as “is twittering:” followed by your real status update, which gets QUITE annoying, to ones self, and their friends.

I’ve tried using the MySpace application by the same name (different author) but it’s intentions are different, it takes your current MySpace status, and syncs it to Twitter, which isn’t my preference, I would rather go to Twitter, type in ONE status update, and have all my social networking sites update with the same status, until somebody codes a MySpace application that does what the Facebook one does, I think I’ll be leaving my MySpace status as blank for a while, it is to much of a pain to update it separately.

Overall, I really love the idea of Twitter, and it can be turned into quite a powerful tool, especially for bloggers like myself!

If anybody is curious, the Twitter updates I have on the right hand side of my blog, is direct code from Twitter, it is NOT a plugin or widget for Wordpress (what my blog is powered by) which makes it even more exciting!