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Today while I was looking at the source code of one of my Tumblr.com posts, I noticed that at the bottom of the page they have iframe with a z-index of 1337.

For those that don’t know, in css the z-index sets the stack order of an element. So its basically setting what layer the element is on. Maybe they just really wanted to make sure that its the top layer.

You can’t hide it Tumblr, we know you think you are leet, and I’m going to have to agree with you.

Anyone else think Tumblr is leet?

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Recently I’ve been hearing a lot about a new kind of blog, called a tumbleblog, so I decided to take a look at them. A tumbleblog, or tumblelog, is a weblog written with a “stream of consciousness” approach, kind of like the traditional journal/diary that begat the entire blogging phenomenon, as Dave Taylor put it.

The most common tumble blogging platform is Tumblr, the platform that Kevin Rose uses for his blog hosted at tumblr.com.

I made an account and started using it, and I found that it was really fun. Its a lot less formal than a normal blog.  Instead of having a nice blog with a tutorial or some tech news,its just random stuff, usually only 1-2 sentences.

With tumblr there is six types of blog posts, text, photo, quote, link, chat, or a video. So you can share your favorite quote, or a funny conversation you had, or a cool video you found on youtube, or just about anything.

Another tumble blogging platform I found is called Bazooka. Bazooka is the first self hosted php/mysql tumbleblog. Basicly its a php version of tumblr. The main differences is that Bazooka has less blog options, like no video or chat, and the themes aren’t as good, but thats my own fault. I like/use Bazooka because Its self hosted.

Now, how is Tumblr different from Twitter? There are two main differences, Twitter is to tell what you are up to, not to tell about cool things you found, and Tumblr is more of a blogging platform, not a social network. When you go to a tumblr blog, the only sign of it being a tumblr blog is a small link at the bottom, they will even let you have your own domain, but on twitter it is very clear that you are on a twitter because of the large twitter banner at the top. But I would say that Twitter is a type of tumble blog.

In conclusion, I would have to say that tumbleblogs may be a lot more fun to write and read, but aren’t that useful. They don’t tell you why something is important, they just tell you where to find it.

Here are my different tumbleblogs.

Twitter

Tumblr

Bazooka

OctalMage

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Has there been a time when you where blogging and wanted to copy some text of a website, and it went something like this.

The text keep the same formating as on the website. Now you have to find out what font your text is, then bring it down.

Well if you where using cPaste, it would automaticlly remove all formating from the clipboard and paste it when you press win+v. Like this.

Now what if you wanted to grab some html content and show it. Without cPaste it would be like this.

With cPaste…

So there you have it.

Hope you enjoy the program.

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OctalMage

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