Well, I'm working on updates to my blog theme. It has never really been finished, and if you've visited recently you may have noticed the icons I put in. I know it's typical to use FamFamFam icons at this point, but I love 'em and I've never really had a chance to use them yet. I'm also working on making my own icons for my Lifestream, which started because the Twitter favicon is too low quality. I haven't re-done the Digg icon yet, but the Last.fm one needs a re-do and the Red Ring of Death icon for my Xbox Live status is just a re-colour. I still have a few items left on my todo list, though. Replace "?" image with something else for default Gravatars. Fix comment meta icons. Change comment meta on archive, search and category to match the index page. Finish off Lifestream icons. Add content to the About page 2, ...

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I should have posted again much sooner, but I've been putting it off, as per usual. Even some encouragement didn't make it happen right away. This time, especially as of late, I've been significantly less active on the internet and haven't been on my Xbox 360 for a number of days. This, I think, I can primarily attribute to getting back into Warhammer 40,000, a table top game. (Wiki it?) I've been catching up on building some of my models, I have a ton that I bought when I was in England since they were significantly cheaper there. I've also been playing quite a few games with my brother and will probably end up going to a number of Games Workshop events next month. Anyways, all this has been keeping me from getting another blog entry done. I had/have plenty of ideas, one which I may end up ...

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I've been searching for a way to display my Xbox Live status as an RSS feed or similar for my Lifestream. Fortunately, I've been using Duncan Mackenzie's Twitter application. There's even an API and some other stuff. Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do with it. Yeah. Now, I created an alternative method to using the API, but it requires Twitter, the previously mentioned Xbox to Twitter application and Yahoo! Pipes. Also, sometimes it doesn't work. I'm going to show you how to set it up, though I would much prefer someone showed me how to set it up using the API. Firstly, you'll need a Twitter account. Twitter is an increasingly popular site which is used to tell people your real-life status. It's kind of hard to explain without making it sound weird, so just sign up and try it out. If you want you can add me as a friend. Now, there are two ways to do this. If you want a Twitter account to be devoted to this Xbox Live status only, it's a lot easier. If you want to do this with an existing Twitter account that you are using, as I did, you'll need to follow the full instructions. Now, you need to install Xbox to Twitter and you should probably set it to run at start up as you'll need this program running for anything to happen. Put in your Xbox Gamertag, Twitter username and Twitter password. Read the instructions on how you want your status to be formatted. I use the following. Xbox Live Status: <game>, <info>.

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