• merry christmas everyone! #

• akismet detected my own comment on my own blog as spam…wtf?! #

• intense debate is down so comments on my blog aren’t working… #

• packing my bags…flight is at 10am, need to be at Heathrow by 7 #

• IntenseDebate plugin still broken… #
• @john1289 what’s BITM? in reply to john1289 #
• @apeatling in buddypress, does wire = status updates? in reply to apeatling #
• cambridge written test tommorow afternoon at 3pm, first subject interview at 6pm, second subject interview on Sunday at 3pm… #

I decided to get my grandfather a 7″ i-mate Momento digital photo frame thinking that I could set it up to pull photos from my photoblog via rss. Well, I just got it today and I’m trying to set it up before I go back to Malaysia on 15 December so that he will just have to connect it to the WiFi network to run it

Well, firstly, this thing is super cool! It looks quite slick and the picture quality is quite good as well. You can set it up to pull photos from any PC on your network and I’ve also read that it supports Vista SideShow gadgets which is great if you’re unfortunate enough to be running a Vista machine on your home network. You can also pull pictures off the web by signing up for a Momento Live account but that’s where the problems strt.

Momento Live is actually pretty cool. When you sign-up for an account, which I’m guessing is free since they haven’t asked for any payment yet, you get a Momento Live email address which you can use to send pictures straight to your photoframe. You can also send pictures straight to your photo frame via MMS.

Unfortunately, if you want to do what I want to do (display pictures from your non-Flickr-Windows Live-or-Picasa-powered photoblog via RSS) you’ll be disappointed. Momento Live will actually work pretty well for most people since it can pull pictures from almost anywhere else on the web (Flick RSS, Flickr Tags, Picasa Web Albums, Picasa RSS, Windows Live Spaces, etc.) but not fromyour own RSS. I could sign up for a Flickr account and somehow import all of my photos from my server but then I’m not the only one who’s going to be posting pictures.

I come from a HUGE family and once everyone hears about this they are all going to want to be able to post pictures straight to the frame. So I decided to write a script which basically generates an RSS feed from all photos in a directory. To make it easier for Momento Live to process it I’ve structured in exactly the same way as a Flickr RSS feed but now Momento Live does not recognise the URL as a valid Flickr RSS URL. I’ve sent an email to the Momento Live support team about this and I’m hoping they get back to me soon with some good news.

• trying to do a TSA practice paper for Cambridge interview this weekend… #

• activated my usual plugins and load time went back up to 40s. Deactivated Twitter Tools and load time reduced to 27s… #
• preparing for tomorrows interview with york…wish me luck! #
• ok better get to bed or i’ll be falling asleep during the interview…nite all #

• great, now I have to modify a software I wrote for a cab company to be used for a courier company #
• harry potter and the half-blood prince http://is.gd/9iJL coming in 2009…can’t wait! #
• server still quite slow even afte I reformatted and reconfigured it #
• could woopra be the cause for my slow server? #
• server speed picking up… #
• damn spoke to soon… #
• feels like I’m on bloody dial-up #
• ok time for bed. night all #
• got the load time down to 15s from 45s by removing a link to an invalid file from my theme header. 15s is still too long I think… #

• ok I can’t think of anything else. server is still slow, no conn problem, more than enough ram on server. i’m just gonna disable all plugins #
• now my server has crashed. great! #
• a geeks christmas wish list http://tinyurl.com/56xx2e (that would be me!) via @timoreilly #
• @hummingbird604 if you’re looking for housing in London…good luck in reply to hummingbird604 #
• couldn’t figure out what’s wrong with the server so I decided to reformat the hard disk. trying to reconfigure it now #
• reconfigured the server and it’s still fucking slow! #