Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

I thought it be appropriate that I test out our own WooThemes product – the WordPress Tumblog toolkit. I’ve just upgraded my site to WordPress 3.1, installed the WooTumblog plugin, and used the http://tumblr2wp.com exporter to copy over some posts I had on an old personal Tumblr site. Easy peasy.

What does this enable me to do? Blog snippets of images, interesting links, quotes, audio, and videos I find on the web more frequently and easily. Try this setup out for yourself and take your WordPress site to the next level.

I’m a huge fan of Keyboard Cat, but Keyboard Dog – you take the cake!

This morning I hacked the snow off my car windscreen and drove/skidded to Wimbledon Park to snap some shots of the snow on my Canon 7D. The UK is currently experiencing some pretty cold and icy weather.

I found some very cautious swans crossing the frozen lake, and put together this video montage trying to capture the moment. The music in the clip is by Jon Hopkins. (Recommend watching in HD on Vimeo)

So I’ve blogged/bragged about my mates band The Brothers Streep before, but that was way back in November 2006.

They’ve grown in band members AND groupies since then, but their latest feature on national television here in the UK should hopefully take them one step closer to global domination. (more…)