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Announcing: SuccessWhale version 2.0!

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Internet, I am pleased to announce that SuccessWhale version 2.0 has just been released and is now live on SuccessWhale.com.

SuccessWhale is a web-based client for Twitter and Facebook, written in PHP, JavaScript and MySQL. It offers a multi-column view that allows users to merge together information from all their connected accounts and view it at a glance from any web browser.

The big changes between version 1.1.2 and 2.0 are:

  • Facebook support
  • Support for multiple Twitter (and Facebook) accounts
  • As many columns as you want
  • Columns that combine multiple feeds
  • Lightboxed images from Twitpic and yFrog
  • New themes
  • Numerous bug fixes!

You can see a screenshot of it in action below:

SuccessWhale Screenshot

I would particularly like to thank Alex Hutter, Hugo Day, Erica Renton and Rg Enzon, whose help in finding bugs and suggesting new features has been instrumental in bringing SuccessWhale up to version 2.0 today.

SuccessWhale is an open source project, and the source code is licenced under the GPL v3.

Changeling 2: The Anti-Changeling?

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I have thought up yet another setting for a roleplaying game that I will probably never get to run. This may be of interest to my former “Changeling: In Love and War” players since it’s in the same world, though the feel of it is completely different. Pretty much the opposite, in fact.

I have two words for you: Punk fairies.

Here’s the introduction.

November

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Once again, the world has whirled its way around its orbit and arrived back at what us mammals call “November”. Perhaps it’s the shortening days, the wind and rain, or maybe just the after-effects of Hallowe’en, but November has had a strange effect on me in recent years. At University, certainly, after a Summer away and an October of re-settling in, November was when the drama started rearing its ugly head.

Then, as now, it’s most marked by a feeling of disconnection – that there’s some distance between myself and the real world. Chores go undone, meals uneaten, important things forgotten, and my brain floats between creativity, blank ‘meh’, and frustrated boredom. Combined with the residual Unseelie feelings from the Hallowe’en just passed, and the leaves blowing past in the wind, it puts me in a strange place.

Incidentally, I wrote a (very) short story. It’s far more upbeat than the rest of this blog entry, and as a bonus will only consume about two minutes of your life. It’s here:

November in the Court of Seasons

Read, share, enjoy, etc. Happy All Hallows’ Day!

Announcing: Full Width Facebook Lite

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Do I blog anything these days apart from new software? Oh well, here goes:

“Full Width Facebook Lite” is possibly the world's shortest Greasemonkey script: it simply removes the right-hand bar in the new Facebook Lite, thus removing the ad and the big white space, allowing the actual content to span the full width. Useful for people who don't like ads, and people with small displays!

To reiterate, this is for the new Lite version of Facebook that's currently in beta at http://lite.facebook.com. It has no effect on regular Facebook.

It requires Firefox with Greasemonkey, and probably works in anything else that supports the same kind of user scripts.

There's no point putting this under the GPL, it's so simple, so it's public domain. You can grab it using the links below.

Announcing: SuccessWhale!

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For the last few days I've been working on a simple web-based Twitter client, to fill the void between the simplicity of Twitter's own web interface and the broken-in-IE6 complexity of BeTwittered and Seesmic Desktop's web interface.

It's still under heavy development, and there are probably a ton of bugs and missing useful features. Please give it a try and let me know what you think. Bug reports are more than welcome!

The source code is licenced under the GNU GPL v3.

Update: Due to a move to the proper OAuth API, the software could no longer continue to be called FailWhale, as someone's already written a Twitter app with that name! Thus, until I or someone else comes up with a good idea, it's called SuccessWhale.

Forgotten Children is Getting Written

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“Forgotten Children” is an idea that's been kicking around my head for a long while, and it's always felt like it ought to be novel-length, albeit possibly a short novel. For several years I've laboured under the misapprehension that it might be publishable, and that if it was, I should keep it to myself until it's done.

However, it's become abundantly clear that if there's no kind of pressure on me, I just don't do it. Thus, I'm going to serialise the damn thing on the internet. Hopefully, the fact that a few people out there might be reading it and waiting for the next chapter will encourage me to get off my arse and write. I can't promise my ability to write it quickly, or frankly even well, but I'm going to put it out there in case someone enjoys it.