"Creating Custom Podcast Feeds Using del.icio.us" is a neat article writing about how some people are using the power of del.icio.us to create podcasts.
The basic idea is to mark mp3's that you are interested in and then since del.icio.us can make rss you can then use the url that this particular tag makes to form a url you can then feed iTunes or some other podcast enabled program.
Very awesome. And apparently, the parent blog entry has that poster doing things like putting in auto-generated audio that can preface the mp3's. Wow!
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Del.icio.us Linkroll
You'll notice on the sidebar now that I have Del.icio.us linkrolls enabled. Now you too can see what the old norseman is doing on the web and linking to.
I first read about this neat feature from the del.icio.us blog which describes some of the neat new features that they are putting into the blog and sometimes how to use them.
Why did I wait to put it in? Well honestly, it was momentum. I hadn't thought that people were going to use this, and then I started to see that there were other people using it on their blogs. When I saw this I knew that this would be a feature that wouldn't go away sometime soon.
I first read about this neat feature from the del.icio.us blog which describes some of the neat new features that they are putting into the blog and sometimes how to use them.
Why did I wait to put it in? Well honestly, it was momentum. I hadn't thought that people were going to use this, and then I started to see that there were other people using it on their blogs. When I saw this I knew that this would be a feature that wouldn't go away sometime soon.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Feedburner/Atom
Ok, so now that I've become a bit more savy, I've come to realize that the RSS on the side of this blog isn't really RSS, it's Atom. Whoops. So accourding to this help article I can go to feedburner and set up a rss feed (I think it's 2.0). Anyways, this is the service that slashdot.org and Uncle Willy use so I think I might go ahead and pick it up. Offer the two and see what happens. Comments?
Time between posts
You know what I need to do, is trim down on these times between posts. Sorry folks.
Anyways have you been to Reddit? If you haven't, you should. It's a place where people can put up links to anything (generally news stories) and then each person can mod the stories up or down. It's really a neat idea and works quite well. And, of all the handiness wasn't enough, it's also written in lisp. Can't beat that with a stick.
Anyways have you been to Reddit? If you haven't, you should. It's a place where people can put up links to anything (generally news stories) and then each person can mod the stories up or down. It's really a neat idea and works quite well. And, of all the handiness wasn't enough, it's also written in lisp. Can't beat that with a stick.
Ahi Tuna
Ahi Tuna, or yellowfin tuna is delicious. Internal heat of 125 degrees or cook them on medium high for 4-5 minutes per side per inch. Very tasty, and kind of expensive in the frozen north where there is no sea.
Monday, August 29, 2005
Word Verification
Oh so this is a neat feature. Word verification. Sure it's another step that people have to overcome, but still it tends to cut down on scoms. Oh, not that I would know overmuch. Sometimes I feel like it's more a Lion Trap.
Oh the other neat thing of note? Apparently part of the blogger action is done in dynamic python. I wonder how they keep the server load low enough. I had always thought that python uncompiled-ly was going to take a performance hit until it was byte code.
Granted, I don't program python anymore. I tend to write ruby.
Oh the other neat thing of note? Apparently part of the blogger action is done in dynamic python. I wonder how they keep the server load low enough. I had always thought that python uncompiled-ly was going to take a performance hit until it was byte code.
Granted, I don't program python anymore. I tend to write ruby.
Other Neat RIP features
* It uses Xpath
* It can use regular expressions (more or less) to filter out sets of pages on a site
* It can filter simular items on a page
So what does this buy you? Well the first two points are more hard core than some people think about. They are presented in an easy form to you but they are really quite powerful and let the browser do all sorts of neat tricks. And the last one? Well remember that most of the ads on a site are all of one size or another. So when you get rid of an element and say all simular elements, they are all gone.
Oh and it has a "Undo last RIP" feature. So that if you go ahead and rip the entire page away, it'll let you get it all back.
So, do I advocate ditching all the ads, the very lifeblood of the internet today, the thing that lets us use all these services for free?
Not really. Esp when they are Google text ads. Quick to download, wordy ads that let me know what the business does or purports to. I click a heck of a lot more google-y ads than I do any of the other "Shoot the Monkey" Ads. In fact I've never shot the monkey.
* It can use regular expressions (more or less) to filter out sets of pages on a site
* It can filter simular items on a page
So what does this buy you? Well the first two points are more hard core than some people think about. They are presented in an easy form to you but they are really quite powerful and let the browser do all sorts of neat tricks. And the last one? Well remember that most of the ads on a site are all of one size or another. So when you get rid of an element and say all simular elements, they are all gone.
Oh and it has a "Undo last RIP" feature. So that if you go ahead and rip the entire page away, it'll let you get it all back.
So, do I advocate ditching all the ads, the very lifeblood of the internet today, the thing that lets us use all these services for free?
Not really. Esp when they are Google text ads. Quick to download, wordy ads that let me know what the business does or purports to. I click a heck of a lot more google-y ads than I do any of the other "Shoot the Monkey" Ads. In fact I've never shot the monkey.
Friday, August 26, 2005
Splog
So apparently splogs are spam-blogs. At least accourding to some authors. Whoops. I guess the spam-comments on my site should be called scoms. Or maybe spomments or spom.
Lazy for Programmers, sure but Dumb?
This is in reply for this article.
Ok it's kind of compelling the reasons to keep things easy. Don't overthink items. Never assume. But the poster keeps using the words "stupid" and "dumb" to convey this attitude.
I disagree, and would suggest a different set of words: rustic and simple.
Being rustic isn't a bad thing. It's keeping things simple and taking the straightest path to the solution. Don't worry about fixing the barn doors when the barn's on fire. Simplicity is the act and art of not trying to show-off that you're greater than anyone else and how cool you can make things.
Look at quaker furniture. It's not sought after because it's got so many new-fangled features. It's simple, solidly made work. It does what it does and can't be also used as a cappucino machine. Sure they are put cleverly together, but people easily overlook that (kind of like how cleverly the google.com start page is put together).
The rest of article makes sense. Go for the low hanging fruit and when there aren't anymore, maybe you shouldn't start straining for the higher ones. But I imagine people trying to get "dumber" in programming and I just don't feel it can be a good thing when people really should trying to solve something simply and cleverly.
Ok it's kind of compelling the reasons to keep things easy. Don't overthink items. Never assume. But the poster keeps using the words "stupid" and "dumb" to convey this attitude.
I disagree, and would suggest a different set of words: rustic and simple.
Being rustic isn't a bad thing. It's keeping things simple and taking the straightest path to the solution. Don't worry about fixing the barn doors when the barn's on fire. Simplicity is the act and art of not trying to show-off that you're greater than anyone else and how cool you can make things.
Look at quaker furniture. It's not sought after because it's got so many new-fangled features. It's simple, solidly made work. It does what it does and can't be also used as a cappucino machine. Sure they are put cleverly together, but people easily overlook that (kind of like how cleverly the google.com start page is put together).
The rest of article makes sense. Go for the low hanging fruit and when there aren't anymore, maybe you shouldn't start straining for the higher ones. But I imagine people trying to get "dumber" in programming and I just don't feel it can be a good thing when people really should trying to solve something simply and cleverly.
Monday, August 22, 2005
RIP - addenda
Oh, looking at boingboing, I think it's interpreting on the fly as the page loads. SO there were various items that hadn't loaded yet that just got dropped before the end of the page. So it's kind of like some of the other adblockers where it stops the spam before it gets to you.
RIP - Remove Items Permanently
Go here. Get this. Seriously, install it and go to town.
I hadn't realized that there was something out there that could internally be so powerful but still let people do things like "right-click an item and say RemovePermanently".
It's holy hot-damn sweet. Anything that lets you do things like remove banners based on their size is just the ticket for the sites you go to.
The only drawback is that it's a after-the-fact removal. Meaning that there are times that you'll load a page and then items will disappear. But still that's not a big issue when you really think about it.
Oh and it lets you do things like export the various things you've "ripped" and save them on a disk or hand to a friend so they don't ever have to put up with some of the ads that we all have had to for a long time.
I hadn't realized that there was something out there that could internally be so powerful but still let people do things like "right-click an item and say RemovePermanently".
It's holy hot-damn sweet. Anything that lets you do things like remove banners based on their size is just the ticket for the sites you go to.
The only drawback is that it's a after-the-fact removal. Meaning that there are times that you'll load a page and then items will disappear. But still that's not a big issue when you really think about it.
Oh and it lets you do things like export the various things you've "ripped" and save them on a disk or hand to a friend so they don't ever have to put up with some of the ads that we all have had to for a long time.
Yahoo Mail vs Gmail
Ok, the only real thing I can think to easily compare is the total space they give out for free.
* Gmail: 2.5GB
* Yahoo: 1.0GB
While I'll never approach either in the near future, it's definitely something that I wonder about for both companies. Given the current state of technology and the funds that are going into both, is it really the case that every single user could have the full quota? Or is this like the time I was in Computer Science as a student and they gave all of us something like 120% of the total, so when 90% of the people almost hit quota no one could spawn files or make new entries into existing files.
* Gmail: 2.5GB
* Yahoo: 1.0GB
While I'll never approach either in the near future, it's definitely something that I wonder about for both companies. Given the current state of technology and the funds that are going into both, is it really the case that every single user could have the full quota? Or is this like the time I was in Computer Science as a student and they gave all of us something like 120% of the total, so when 90% of the people almost hit quota no one could spawn files or make new entries into existing files.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
CSS changing
So, I *might* be changing bits and pieces of the css that makes up the layout of this blog. Why, you may ask, when it has been so easy to read and so pretty to look at.
Well I like it too. The only problems I have is that it doesn't take up a lot of the screen (just the middle) and as such it tends to make it so that people have to scroll down a lot just to get a little bit of the article I've posted read. Which, frankly, reduces reader count. I like reader count.
Any suggestions on good CSS sites/templates will always be appreciated.
Well I like it too. The only problems I have is that it doesn't take up a lot of the screen (just the middle) and as such it tends to make it so that people have to scroll down a lot just to get a little bit of the article I've posted read. Which, frankly, reduces reader count. I like reader count.
Any suggestions on good CSS sites/templates will always be appreciated.
Friday, August 19, 2005
Blog Spam
Ok, that's just funny. Sad, but funny. I post to the blog, and voila I get a comment saying "Geez you've done such a good job setting up your blog, come see this Payday Loan site". What sort of wretch goes about writing software to post to blogs. Can't they at least do something like "If there are words about a heart attack don't post"?
Granted I could see consumer targetted splogs based on what was written in the blog and in the comments that go before them. But then again that would take effort, and intelligence, and I'm starting to think all they want is a cheap buck.
Granted I could see consumer targetted splogs based on what was written in the blog and in the comments that go before them. But then again that would take effort, and intelligence, and I'm starting to think all they want is a cheap buck.
Scare
So, I had a family member's heart stop beating and stop breathing while in surgery. Now that was scary. If I'm a bit frazzled, that's the main reason why. Amazing how fragile the human body is.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Nice quote
"The only difference between a dripping faucet and a Japanese water garden is perspective".
--Kevin Kling
--Kevin Kling
Ruby on Windows
If you are looking for a Ruby for Windows, click here. It's got an IDE and an Fox installation so you can do gui progs.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Ruby Links
Del.icio.us links for ruby. Now seriously, go out and get ruby. It's got tons of libraries and a decent community.
Start Here
And any language that spawns comparisons of it's internals to mayonnaise can't be all that bad.
Start Here
And any language that spawns comparisons of it's internals to mayonnaise can't be all that bad.
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