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As I’m no longer running with Joomla, I no longer have a need for MojoBlog. However quite a lot of users have been using my modules & bots over the past year or so (at the last count I’d had around 4,000 downloads of each of the half dozen modules and bots I’ve created, so more than 20,000 downloads). I won’t be supporting these modules any longer, however if there are folk out there that still need them, you can find them here.

I’ve been a long time user of Joomla combined with MojoBlog (a Wordpress conversion for Joomla). They work well together and provide some powerful customisation options and excellent themes. However recently the only pure Joomla functionality I’ve been using has been modules. So I got to thinking, why not switch to Wordpress – from a theme perspective it’s finally caught up with Joomla, and I can replace most of my Joomla modules with Wordpress widgets.

So here we are in Wordpress 2.7 and it’s not half bad to be honest. I was able to import all my posts from MojoBlog via an RSS feed. However any comments were left behind, which is no great loss I guess, since there weren’t very many.

I’ve created a simple module with which you can build a Joomla Menu based entirely on icons. It’s the same as the one I’m using at the top right of my blog.

You simply tell it how many icons you want (one to eight), what the target url is, specify a url to an icon, specify a target tag if desired (eg. _blank), and give it a description. You must also specify a divider image which appears between each icon, set the icon size, and adjust the layout with the appropriate parameters.

It’s really straight forward, self explanatory, and doesn’t do anything particularly complex, but I couldn’t find anything similar for Joomla. You can find it here.

Icons/Images are not included, though if you like the ones I’m using you’ll find them here.

I’ve made a few minor updates to my site, Apple-ifying it somewhat with the addition of iPod Touch / iPhone style calendar icons dating each post. I also wrote a new Joomla module, an icon based menu, which I’ve also Apple-ified. And finally, there’s some minor tweaking to the look of the modules on the right. All very minor stuff, but it was fun.

I’ve decided to give Tumblr a whirl. It’s one of those new fangled web apps that folk like to call Web 2.0 applications. Don’t you just hate that term, Web 2.0? Is there such a thing as Web 1.0? I mean really, like OMG, you’re still on the old internet?

Anyway, Tumblr is essentially a microblog or, as those Web 2.0 types would have you call it, a lifestream. B*gger off. Lifestream – lol. You’re meant to use it on a daily basis to make little short posts that you’d otherwise not clog up your blog with. Random thoughts, interesting links, that sort of thing. Kind of like the funwall on facebook. I’ll probably never use it. There’s a link at the top of the page to my full Tumblr feed, and there’s a module on the right displaying my recent tumbles.