Poor John Terry, I really do feel sorry for him.

American Idol judges and presenter wiki pages

I’ve been working very hard on Unreality Shout to build a set of biographies for each of the American Idol judges and for presenter Ryan Seacrest.

The biographies tie into a fan group we run for American Idol on that site. We’re looking for fans of the judges to help flesh out their wiki pages on Shout. Here are the pages for each of the judges:

• Simon Cowell
• Ellen DeGeneres
• Randy Jackson
• Kara DioGuardi

Shout is a site I’ve been working on for a couple of years now, and it’s starting to become a great community blogging site for people who are obsessed by entertainment news.

Catching Alexandra Burke before she was famous – I think I preferred her when she WAS famous.

Watching a very young Simon Cowell on Sale Of The Century. Wow.

Arghhh! Just crashed my laptop in a serious way. Battery can’t detect when it’s running out of juice anymore!

How Doctor Who: The End Of Time should have ended – http://ping.fm/iHouq

Testing out Ping.fm again. Been a while since I used this – many more services available.

http://gerardmcgarry.com

Typing quotes into WordPress – what’ll it do? I wonder. I see a little box for citation and a tags field. Nothing else.

Me

Loving this P2 theme – I can see a lot of application for it. Although on Skewster, there’s no toolbar above the status update area – whereas on WordPress.com, there is.

I wonder if it’s smarter to link Skewster to this WordPress account rather than doing another self-hosted option? I’d like to change the design though, so that might be a consideration…

Changing up my theme

I abandoned this blog a while back, but the account exists to provide me with awesome Akismet keys.  Anyway, I used the microblogging themes in order to test cross-posting from Twitter and Facebook via Ping.fm.

While it all worked rather well, it resulted in a pretty cluttered interface that looked rather crap. So, I’ve mixed things up a little bit, decided to use the P2 theme which allows for rapid input as well as threaded responses from commenters. I’ll probably just add my thoughts and links to stuff I’ve written around the web for the moment and we’ll see how it goes!

Man, I’ve watched some great TV this week. Autumn is good for improved TV at least!

Making myself a big Pantera playlist – any suggestions for what tracks to include?

RT @_d_a_v_e_: “Now I’ve had the time of my life…” Patrick Swayze RIP

Say what? Kanye’s outburst at the #VMAs was about RACE? http://is.gd/3idpW

Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads…

OK, here’s my liveblog round-up of tonight’s #xfactor – http://ping.fm/eWkKC

RT @benayers: RT @pressgazette News International to close thelondonpaper http://bit.ly/e7POT

RT @abduzeedo: 10 tips: How to improve your Photoshop Skills – http://bit.ly/Ah4il – old but still very useful post

Funniest video ever – date my avatar – http://ping.fm/dKade