My Series 1 Droplets are currently at home on my desk at work, with a few friends. Another 5 will be joining the family soon.

You can find all of the information needed about the Droplet Series 2 launch on the flyer below. Click the image below to enlarge, spread the word.

Photo taken by Rich Anderson.

First thing to check is whether you have recieved emails or push notifications as these will cause your phone to vibrate. Unless like me your phone is broken, an app on your phone will cause it to vibrate.

For me I found that my phone was vibrating in my pocket and would continuously vibrate in an inconsistent pattern.

After checking my phone many times I found that if I squeezed my phone from the front and back on the top left of the iPhone (silent switch area) it would vibrate. It would only do this if the phone was set to silent. So if I kept squeezing the phone I could get it to constantly vibrate.

An appointment at the Genius bar in the Apple store was booked. After showing them the issue the iPhone was swapped for a new/refurbished one, without an issue. As expected the genius came to the conclusion that the connection to the switch must have been dodgy. However he had not seen the issue before.

I am posting this after a few people have hit my site by searching for answers to the mystery vibrating of their iPhones. Maybe the above is what your experiencing. Hopefully this will help someone out there.

Also a special thanks to Cassie my lovely girlfriend for brightening up each and every day.

Thank you and Merry Christmas!!! Have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Unfortunately Twitter would have been sufficient but due to limits within Twitter you can’t grab Tweets after your last 3200 Tweets. As I implement more sources into the system the ‘day’ entries will grow. The system has been built from scratch using one of my personal favorite and most used scripts SimplePie. This bundled into a Wordpress plugin now creates my lifestream and the Twitter elements you see to the right of this post.

I have plans to add more features to the Lifestream system, which will include paging to access days past my current 3 day limit. As well as a very cool Google Map implementation. More on that further down the line.

Thanks goes to Paul Robert Lloyd for his Beautiful icons used on my Lifestream. Please also note that the Lifestream is still in development.

It has been tested in the following… “Tested in Firefox (version 3.5 and 3), Chromium (version 4.0.202.0) and Internet Explorer 8. Audio only work in Firefox 3.5″.

Click here to view Pong with HTML5 and Javascript.

I’m genuinly interested to see the response and how it varies between different people from different backgrounds. Please comment with your take on the subject.

If Wordpress is unable to run the processes to publish scheduled posts then they are shown in the admin with ‘Missed Schedule’. Not very helpful at all. You can hit the wp-cron.php file yourself which will run the necessary process to get the post published. Another alternative is to set up a cron job to hit wp-cron.php at set intervals.

After some digging however you can change the method Wordpress runs the wp-cron.php file by adding the following to the wp-config.php file…

define('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true);

Wordpress will run the following process to publish scheduled posts…

• Visitor hits your site.
• Wordpress checks if WP Cron needs to run.
• If it does then it uses an alternative redirect method (which does slow down the site loading for the 1 user).
• The post is published and the site loads for the visitor, with the post shown (depending on page/theme etc).

If ‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’ isn’t set then the default process runs to publish sheduled posts, which looks like the following…

• Visitor hits the site and the page loads.
• Wordpress checks to see if a wp-cron needs to be run.
• If one does need to be run then it tried to make a HTTP connection back to itself calling the wp-cron.php file. Which is why the first visit to the site won’t contain the post that needs to be published as Wordpress is running this in the background.

In my personal experience this week it’s this HTTP connection that didn’t work, which meant the post wasn’t published till I hit the wp-cron.php using my browser.

So if your experiencing the ‘Missed Schedule’ posts try adding the below code to your wp-config.php file.

define('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true);

Apoligies for the wording of this post, it was written quickly and late in the evening/early morning. I hope it helps someone.

Just like the real thing, after you have finished the round tickets are dispensed, which you can then keep to put towards a worthless prize at the ‘redeem’ counter. Just like in real life.

Despite been a very simple game and concept the game is surprisingly addictive. I found myself playing it before a game of Call of Duty this evening and getting so stuck into it that I didn’t realise that I had been booted out of the game (rubbish internet no doubt). It’s a great little app to pass some time, even if the prizes aren’t real.

The IconFactory have a few Add Ons for the game out already. Each addon adds more ramps, goals, prizes and trophies.

The best bit is that this App is FREE for a limited time so grab it quickly. Click here to download the app using iTunes.