What was missed

The plan is to write more actual blog entries (and short, stray thoughts) on Terribly Happy now that the new site format is live, but I still want to keep the stuff I’m working on and things that are published/produced elsewhere appearing here.

I can’t stress enough how much of a pain in the ass it had gotten to be dealing with Blogger the last few years. Half the time it wouldn’t publish, other times it messed up my HTML on something simple like adding a link to a post. Uploading an image was a chore and it never formated things the way I wanted it to.

If there were reasons I moved more to posting on Twitter and less on Bloggystyle, it was those. It got to be like having to visit a bad neighborhood where you used to live for a necessary errand that you keep putting off.

Anyway, here’s some of what I would have posted last week if the site had been accessible:

On Monday, I was on NPR talking about Apple (seems like we’re always talking about Apple, huh?). Specifically, iPad sales, the Gizmodo situation and the perception that Apple might be getting a little bit of a bad reputation in some circles. Here’s the audio from the segment and the blog entry I wrote with links to stuff we talked about.

Also last week, I had a story in the Saturday paper about location-based social networks like Gowalla and Foursquare. The story didnt make it online, mostly because I broke down and expanded it into three parts on Digital Savant (at least I think thats why it wasn’t online). The Digital Savant versions also include tips from power users and a few other tidbits we weren’t able to fit in the paper.

Basically, it’s a primer on how to use Foursquare and Gowalla if you’re not already using them (or maybe you are and you’re a little lost.

You can find those entries here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

Trailers Without Pity: The A-Team

Pablo and I never watched The A-Team growing up (it’s explained in the video), but that didn’t stop us from examining the rich excess that is the trailer for this summer movie creation.

I know there’s a market for movies like this, just like there’s a market for off-brand Santa Fe mango chutney, but the only circumstance I could see myself seeing this movie is if someone paid me to go and then paid me again after the film was over, the money handed over in a burlap bag marked, “Dubiously Gotten $$$.”

Nevertheless, the trailer was fun to poke at, at least, for Trailers Without Pity and for us that’s all that counts.

And we have RSS!

We have a live RSS feed again, which is only really very exciting to me. If you already subscribe to the blog feed, you don’t have to do a thing. There’s a redirect from the old Blogger atom.xml file to the new feed URL, terribly-happy.com/feed/. If you’re not a subscriber, now’s the perfect time to add the feed to your reader.

Or tell your mom to, or whatever. Hey — what a nice early Mother’s Day gift! You’re amazing.

New beginnings

So, obviously, things look a bit different around here. Welcome!

The upgrade/migration took almost exactly a week longer than I was hoping it would and theres a good deal more dust and debris than I was hoping. Shit looks UGLY. I know. You dont have to say it. Im working on it.

Less clear is whether the Terribly Happy archives will make it over to WordPress. Not sure if thats going to happen because the Easy Import tool made a mess of everything and it would take me years to fix everything if I went that route.

You can still access Bloggystyles old page (from about 2004-April 2010) or dig back even further in the archives (2000-2004).

Trailers Without Pity: Iron Man 2

(reposted from a Bloggystyle post from a few months ago)

This one was kind of a no-brainer — how could we not do Iron Man 2?

But within that easy free-throw range, I think we did some fun stuff and Pablo’s channeling of Terrence Howard whispering, “Oh, no, he flew away…” cracks me up every single time I hear it.Start with $250 — let your money work smarter State Investment Platform Reviews.

So, here ya go. New episode of Trailers Without Pity. Next up, we’re doing Kick-Ass and Sex and the City 2.