The Rules of Road Cycling (again cheers bro for the link!)
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Bad Mood Monday
This incredibly accurate image shows what I am feeling like this Monday morning. Tired achy, grumpy. (cheers to my Bro for the link)
In other news I bought a new road bike, a Bianchi Via Nirone 7 Sora, 2011, and went cycling with Marion in the countryside to the North of Reading. Now I ache a lot due to my lack of fitness and the uncomfortableness of a road bike compared to the mountain bike I usually ride. I spent the rest of the weekend watching the final two stages of this years Tour de France.
Back from a week in Tuscany. A wedding, the furnace of mid-summer Florence and mosquitos. All this mixed with plenty of deliciously sun-soaked (often red-flagged) beaches, plenty of bottles of Chianti and oodles of pizza. A great holiday!
Blogging via iPad2
Ever since buying my iPad2 in March I have always wanted to write a blog post and send it live from the magical device, I even bought a wireless keyboard to make the process easier.
I believe that there is something quite fantastical about being able to write in the peace and quiet of wherever you want (in my case the lounge with the calming clock tick-tock and the blue sky and sunshine out of the window) having no constraint to be in front of the computer screen.
With the WordPress app I am able to do all this and send it “live” where it goes straight to this site, or “pending review” where I can edit it on the WordPress admin area, or if I want to add further links and photos to the post, before publishing to live at a later date.
Blogging via Google Docs
Earlier this week I stumbled upon a video explaining how to run a news site and newspaper using WordPress and Google Docs and I thought that I would take their advice and try it out. So this post is written in Google Docs and will be transferred, once I have finished writing it, using a plugin called Docs to WordPress and the WordPress xml-rpc.
In google docs set up two unique folders (or collections) called, for example, “To Publish†and “Publishedâ€. Grab the unique the last characters from each of the folder’s URL, along with your username and password as outlined in this article and put them into the wp-config.php file in the root of your site.
I think that this is great when you want to have time to compose a post without the distraction of the rest of your blog, or the internet, with the ability to work collaboratively with others working on the same document as you. For example the writer and the editor can work together on the document and when finished tag the document “to publish†and then it gets sent to wordpress to be published. You cannot publish directly because you need to go into the wordpress build and click publish which I think is good because it stops you if you  send something accidentally.