During August and early September, I made some progress in implementing a private snipsnap server. The original articles are here, and here. I used snipsnap for a number of years and most of my thoughts and notes on how to make it work are now posted to this site’s companion wiki, or to its own home site. …
The RSS Revolution
One of the reasons I started blogging was to participate in the RSS revolution. At least one of my feed providers has pointed at Yahoo as a server based RSS delivery/agregation solution, and I had to return to My Yahoo last week and discovered that they’ve upgraded the services available via this Yahoo feature. The picture immediately below, shows my new My Yahoo!
news page. …
Tag or Menu
Steve Hahn who writes at predictable
suggested that getting del.icio.us as an RSS stream and thus viewing not only other’s bookmarks but also the order they’re reviewed adds a new dimension to the bookmark list. Today, if you view my del.icio.us bookmarks, you can see that I’ve been looking at holiday and personal finance sites. The rest of this article, looks at reverse date order and clouds vs.lists. It represents my early experiments with social bookmarking and RSS. …
Back from My Holidays
I’ve been away to Greece over the last week, I got back over the weekend but I’ve been too busy to write a blog article. We visited Stoupa in the Southern Peloponnese and travelled with Greek Options, who we’ve used three times now and have always looked after us. Sadly we were only there for a week and therefore didn’t leave Stoupa to visit any of the fantastically old sites in travelling distance. We’ll have to go back. …
Using del.icio.us “clouds”
How curious? I’m working up an article on del.icio.us and their clouds
, and I discover that a tag based query does not show the cloud
, so you can’t walk across the cloud/tag fields. …
Dominic Kay
On the Sun/oracle blog, a couple of days ago, I noted my friend & colleague Dominc Kay’s first blog article. Today, on the same site, he wrote a very generous reference and associated me with some of the most powerful intellects working at Sun. Thanks Dom. …
Make it something interesting for a change
Is the Cluetrain Manifesto, “a spectre haunting the Internet?” Some of it is very funny, some of it bloody obvious. Its only the retards that thought the ’80s would last forever and that Gordon Gecko was a philosopher that will find some of this hard or revolutionary – the fact it’s all in one place is very good though, and its clearly written in a language that “entrepreneurs” can get! …
delicious, tags and community
I wrote about del.icio.us here & here, on my sun/oracle blog. I note that it’s a social network for bookmarking, it allows searches on the basis of crowd sourced tags, and allows friends to watch out for interesting content for each other. It also posts in RSS. …
Batman Begins
There’s no Dr. Who this week, so we popped out to the pictures to watch “Batman Begins”. …
The 9th Doctor
The final episode of the series was shown over the last weekend and IMO, its not as good as the penultimate episode. I’d been questioning whether the change from four part (30 minute) episodes to what seemed like single or double 45 minute episodes worked and had just come to the conclusion that they did, so imagine my surprise when they brought all the threads crashing together in the penultimate episode. There seemed so little to do to finish the stories, only 1/2 million Daleks to destroy and billions of humans to save. All in a day’s work for the Doctor. …