Please let it be good.

For years I poured my thoughts into my personal WordPress blog, spinning off into a new technology-based website, before using the latter as my portfolio to apply for a position at The Next Web.

As they say, the rest was history.

Blogging full-time, my personal websites fell by the wayside.

In fact, I let the domain names and hosting lapse for my older stuff because it marked a time in my life where I was blogging for personal pageviews (ironic that I do the same now but in the technology sector). This meant that I turned to free and hosted platforms, including Tumblr and Posterous.

Tumblr won that battle, mainly because its sharing tools were better and it was easier to make a website look nice. However, having reassessed what I wanted from my personal site, it was time to return to WordPress.

I use WordPress daily at The Next Web, but it’s a heavily customised build that is cached to the hilt and doesn’t necessarily use the latest builds — so when I came back to administering my own site again, it took a bit of getting used to.

Updated to the latest version and plugins installed, I hunted down a nice theme. I checked out ThemeForest, probably the best premium WordPress theme marketplace, and settled on Dulce by We Are Pixel8.

And this is the result.

It may resemble a Tumblr site but it’s all WordPress. It now allows me to connect my iPad and post away, I can connect to my favourite networks using third-plugins and most importantly, I have complete control on the site and how it operates.

I intend to post more of my personal thoughts here in the coming days, perhaps returning to the way I blogged when I first started out.

[Image Credit - Nikolay Bachiyski]

Whether you like Coldplay or not, you can’t deny this MCA (of the Beastie Boys) tribute is fantastic. 

Three Grandmas watch the Kim Kardashian sex tape. These are their (hilarious) comments.

‘Thats Greek, that’s what the Greeks do.’

Amazing.

If you live in the UK, this evening you had the chance to watch the world premiere of the new Prometheus International Trailer, a trailer that ran in the first ad break of tonight’s episode of Homeland.

Viewers were invited to use Zeebox and see their tweets embedded in a live-tweeted commercial for the first time.

The Twitter campaign is a piece of marketing genius, ensuring that film fans all over the world will see trailer in seconds — and what a trailer it is.

For too long Hollywood studios have been throwing money at franchises, hoping that they will win big at the Box Office but ultimately we have been left wanting. With Prometheus that could be about to change.

Ridley Scott and everyone connected to his latest project have done a fantastic job of building buzz for the film, connecting us to the film’s characters before we have even stepped foot in the theatre to watch it.

I can’t remember the last time I saw something as meticulously planned as this campaign, there’s still more than a month until it opens at the Box Office and people will be talking about it until it does.

This is was a proper summer blockbuster should be like.

I thought Avengers looked good. Prometheus looks to be a whole new level of awesome.

Incredible time-lapse of a girl called Lotte, from birth to 12 years of age.

It’s amazing to see little or no change over a few transitions and then BOOM! She’s gone from a baby to a toddler, then from a kid to almost a teenager.

Inspires me to do something similar.

Update: I have since moved back to WordPress, but Blogsy is just as good for WordPress as it is Tumblr.

For the longest time, I have been tying to find apps that make it easy for me to write and publish blog posts from my iPad.

Running a Tumblr blog, I’m not able to write posts using the official app because the company still hasn’t released one for the iPad (oh, hey there Spotify), leaving it up to third party developers. There are some decent apps but for the most part they suck.

Today, I was directed to an iPad app by the name of Blogsy. I stumbled upon it via The Loop, which notified me the app now supported Tumblr. Interest piqued, I read the reviews and laid down £2 to download it.

Put simply, it rocks.

Blogsy allows you to pipe in your blogging accounts, supporting nearly every major platform, but also your photo and video hosting accounts. This means you can upload your finds and drag them into posts. So easy.

It’s even got an in-built browser, so you can search for additional details from with the app.

I’ve used Blogsy to write this post and I intend to use it regularly in the future. If it supported the complex backend at TNW, I could even think about using my iPad full-time to write my posts.

Which could also mean I need to buy an iPad keyboard.

If you haven’t already, take a look. It’s a supremely useful app.

⇒ Blogsy