I’ve been using this Easter Weekend to try to tweak a few things on this new blog – mostly the side bar. 

I’ve written a bit of code that pulls in my twitter updates (Haiku fail at the moment though), and I’ve got old blog posts listed with a little bit of blurb about them as a way of, hopefully, tempting you lovely people into reading other things on the site once you’re here.

If anyone’s a bit of a WordPress hacker and wants my Twitter code, I’m happy to share. It’s not a Widget (because my sidebar does not use Widgets) so requires you to get down and dirty editing template files directly… not for the faint of heart.

Update: Except, of course, the Twitter importer spontaneously stopped working for some reason… oh well. Fun while it lasted.

Update Update: Okay so I got it working again, except now I reduced it to just my latest update only. Also, I removed the rather poorly looking ‘libdig’ button, which forever showed “0 lib digs” and was rather embarrassing.

Update Update Update: Well, I got sick of the sidebar taking forever to load - especially with the new twitter thing -  so I decided to write a bit of Javascript to pull that box in after everything else has loaded, which makes the page load 3 seconds faster – down from 4 seconds. I also turned off Twitter Tools, which I only use for notification to Twitter but which loads a load of junk (including the dreaded JQuery library) in pages. Desperately trying to keep the page weight down as low as possible. The faster the better!