I spotted a post over on the Lifestream Blog which mentioned Simple Pie a while ago. Some people have been doing interesting things using Simple Pie as the backend to a personal lifestream, so I thought I’d do the same. However, my php skills are pretty much non-existent, so I struggled to really do anything with it. That was, until Steffen came to the rescue!

The above is a screenshot of my brand new lifestream using Steffen’s LifePie app. You can see my lifestream here. It’s still very much a work in progress, and it breaks on smaller screens at the moment, but it’s a workable model and I’m very impressed with it, it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for! Steffen is planning to release LifePie, so if you’re interested take a look at the post linked to above.

I will be adding to it over time, but you can already keep an eye on most things I do online via my lifestream. There is also a feed for the whole thing, I’ve used Afeeda to put that together – a great free service that allows you to mix up your own feeds from different sources.

I wanted to personalise my presence on the intertubes a bit so I moved to a url which is, well, my name. Zenith has been put in the cupboard (which is possibly inhabited by strange pixies), and I, Jackie Plage, stand before you instead. Though I don’t mind being called Zenith still, I love the name, but I wanted to finally take the mask off and be me. Time will tell if that’s a good thing or not. :)

Also, I’ll say more about this tomorrow, but I’m rather pleased with this!

This was made possible with the OpenID WP plugin and the help of my friend Steffen, who has kindly made an OpenID WP widget.

For those who don’t know what OpenID is, you can read here, and here for more information, and you can also get your own login by signing up at myOpenID. There are other places you can get an OpenID, but this is the one that I use.

So, thanks Steffen, without you I’d have had to spend time digging around in the code (I’m getting lazy in my old age, the easy option is a good option!).