Archive for April, 2006

Socializing

April 29, 2006 at 3:43 pm · Filed under Chicklets, Web 2.0

Eddie Awad's blog posts have a nice row of social bookmarking icons at the bottom. These are courtesy of the Sociable plugin for WordPress. Each of these bookmarks the post at the associated social bookmarking site.

I have always thought it would be nice to have this on my blog. Since I can't use plugins willy nilly at WordPress.com, I had to find another way. Enter the Socializer by Pierre Far. Provides a way to bookmark your blog on a whole bunch (~40 at last count) of bookmarking sites. To make it easy to use:

1. I rolled my own chicklet : 69116222284211458404467ff.png
2. Created my custom URL http://ekstreme.com/socializer/?url=http%3A%2F%2F<my url>%2F&title=<my title>
3. Used the image and URL to create a Bookmark to my own blog

Not the same thing, but a pretty good hack even if I say so myself.

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Chicklets

April 23, 2006 at 8:35 am · Filed under Chicklets, Web 2.0

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Here, here and here.

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Really Simple Syndication?

April 21, 2006 at 4:15 pm · Filed under RSS, Web 2.0

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)

About 6 months ago, I moved. And a brilliant idea was born. Why get a landline when I can have a cell phone for the same cost? I promptly signed up for a wireless service. 1000 free minutes a month, with unlimited nights and weekends. For a few months I diligently monitored my usage on the providers website to ensure I stayed within the free minutes. Usually 600 to 700 minutes a month. Great !

Until last month. Usage 1500 minutes. $0.50 per extra minute. You do the math. No, the $0.50 is not a typo.

Secure RSS feeds anyone?

  • If the phone company had one, I wouldn't have to give up my morning coffee after the phone fiasco.
  • If my bank had one, I wouldn't have to login to their website to know I was penniless.
  • If my credit card had one, I would instantly know about all my spouse's shopping sprees. I could then perfectly time the fight for reinstatement of coffee privileges.
  • If the credit bureaus had one, I would have a good laugh at any identity thieves without waiting for the annual report.

My stroke of genius for the year! I had grand plans for a patent, lawsuits and millions. Unfortunately, google reveals that someone else stole my ideas before they were born. :|

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Three Men in a Boat

April 15, 2006 at 7:36 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Growing up, some of my favourite reads were newly purchased English texts for the year. One chapter that I remember is "Packing" – an extract from Jerome K. Jerome's "Three men in a boat". I happily stumbled on the same at the Literature Page recently.

I just can't fathom how they can have such a great collection of literature for free (was too busy reading the literature to research their "about" page). So I'll just consider it another wonder of the Interweb for now.

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Dumb databases

April 9, 2006 at 9:52 pm · Filed under Oracle

Mark Rittman's post on Oracle pet peeves linked to Jeff's original list for SQL Server. Hardened by constant exposure to brilliant ideas (such as the comma separated list in a column), I was only mildly amused. I am still not sure what is scarier: the mildness of my amusement or these comments from a guy who claims to be an OCA/OCP?

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