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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.