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My new buddy Andy C recently said to me:

I used to enjoy blogging a lot more and I actually have a couple of humourous blog articles that I am genuinely quite fond - no more than that - proud of.

Twitter is just the ultimate in 'disposable' blogging. All that crap posted from Heathrow T5 just fills my time in. It's hardly earth shattering, is it? God - I can't remember any of those stupid tweets (apart from the lads in Yellow Lurex suits that was pretty funny) let alone be proud of all those throwaway one-liners.

But Twitter (or at least micro services like it, as on Andy's advice I'm trying out FriendFeed) is much more than that. The things I know about Andy have mostly come from that disposable blogging. It's exactly that reason that I think there is room for blogging and Twitter; blogging enables all sorts of complex ideas to be thrashed out, and I can get a real idea of what someone thinks, but through tweets I get to know the _person_. Of course there's a bit of a blurring between those two as well, but individual tweets don't have to be things of which to be proud. The body of tweets is indicative.

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After mucking around with Habari for the last few months, including porting the Connections theme, and loving the community, I'm now posting from my brand new, shiny Habari installation. I'm sure there will be some fine-tuning of the theme over the next month or so, to move it from alpha to beta. There are a few issues I know about already, like incomplete support for multiple entries, and there may be other things I don't know about. If you find anything, please let me know. Thanks to all the Habari community for helping me migrate.

Thanks to concise advice from Owen Winkler (aka ringmaster), my test Habari install now has the same URLs as my existing WordPress blog. That means that when I move, all my links will still work. It would have been a pain to redo all my internal links, but those three sites out there in the wild web that link to me are really valuable ... For reference (lines wrapped for clarity): INSERT INTO habari__rewrite_rules (name, parse_regex, build_str, handler, action, priority, is_active, rule_class, description) VALUES ('display_entry', '%(?P<year>\\d{4})/ (?P<mon0>\\d{2})/ (?P<mday0>\\d{2})/ (?P<slug>[^/]+)[/]{0,1}$%i', '{$year}/{$mon0}/{$mday0}/{$slug}', 'UserThemeHandler', 'display_post', '8', '1', '0', ''); [Update: Don't copy ...

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When travelling, I keep a journal. I've been doing this for almost eight years now, with varying degrees of commitment, and have filled a couple of moleskines. This last trip to Iran is the first trip I've done since I started blogging and using Twitter, but I realised that I've been doing both for years, albeit low tech paper based blogging and tweets. Typically I'll have a couple of entries like, "Mannequins are freaky enough but someone got an import deal in Iran for extra freaky mannequins" and "Found veggie soups!" and then a longer entry about somewhere we've visited ...

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