Posts from ‘March, 2009’

Lola on the beach by ambertq posted 22 Oct ‘08, 12.48pm MDT PST on flickr

I have to leave town tonight. I have a red-eye to Newark and hopefully a connection and some information when I get to the next place.
You see, my older sister and her husband have not been home since November. [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by Photography by Chris
Rob Wall’s excellent post on Unintended Consequences pinged me recently (Rob, you gotta stop selling yourself short on your writing, ok?). In reading it, however, a phrase I have read like a thousand times before, maybe even said myself, jumped out and get stuck in my fur:
The google-bot [...]

Emptied Anticipation by cogdogblog posted 27 Mar ‘09, 8.29pm MDT PST on flickr
Most every day I walk the one quarter mile walk to my mailbox. I have two choices of routes, and usually take the other back.
I should know every detail of the way, but in search today of my 2009/365 photo, [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by Laurie :: Liquid Paper
You see that cute photo I used? You know the routine. I use compfight to search tags on creative commons licensed flickr photos with the tag peekabo.
Then I download a copy, upload to my server, include in this post, provide attribution, and that is how it is [...]

This is long overdue for users of my Feed2JS service, which allows you to place a dynamic feed in your web page without having to know anything about RSS or parsing XML. This has been around since 2003 and seems to still be used a lot. I’ve hardly done much on the code for 2+ [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by gary foulger.
In high school I joined the group of kids who did not want to join groups.
Maybe I’ve not changed much since then.
But I try a lot of web services, especially as I see others in my network mentioning them. Tonight is WeFollow.com billed as a “user powered twitter [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by Miicha A. Ponce
Between gorging on the tax payer supplied bailout, Citibank is going to even things out by gouging and sticking it to their own customers. I just found out that I contributed to their cause, without being aware of it.
Back in October 2008, I decided to close out [...]

For some reason I’ve been having Cracker’s Teen Angst song in heavy iPod rotation; the lyrics are just ra ra (or is it la la la la). A new version might be:
Cause, what the web needs now
Is a new kind of resource collection.
Cause people just cant do search location.
Cause, what the world needs now
Is another [...]

modified from cc licensed flickr image by espresso marco with tag cloud image from mediwiki
I believe in tags.
I love tags.
After looking past at an excessive number of hash tags on twitter (and excessive ones in my flickr stream… and in my delicious account), I did start to wonder about the human capacity for remember tags [...]

My Next Blockbuster from the Movie Plot Generator by cogdogblog posted 18 Mar ‘09, 2.23pm MDT PST on flickr
You have to love random stuff.
The Movie Plot Cookie Cutter Generator may be just the ticket you need to spring that creative idea that will see you polishing your acceptance speech and red carpet [...]