527 Posts from 2005

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Movie mistakesgoofs, bloopers, pictures, quotes and trivia from thousands of moviesTags: pile FeedWordPressFeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from newsfeeds that you select into your WordPress blog; if you syndicate several newsfeeds then you can WordPress’s posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation (“planet”) website.Tags: blog, rss, […]

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The New Spam Book’s Here!

Borrowing again on my vast array of literary resources, paraphrashing from 1979’s Steve Martin’s The Jerk: Navin C.D.B. Johnson: The new spam book’s here! The new spam book’s here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! Casino, Pills, and Porn links in my blog! That really makes somebody! Things are going to start […]

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Planet IdentityPlanet Identity is an aggregation of public weblogs related to Identity Management. The opinions expressed in those weblogs and hence this aggregation are those of the original authors.Tags: rss The RSS Files — Readers Weigh InMy suggestion was to scrap RSS, which stands for "Really Simple Syndication," and replace it with KOSS, or "Kind […]

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RTMark: Your Real Corporation Clearinghouse®TMark receives project ideas from internet users, then lists them (here). Each listed project has its own discussion list (linked from the project). When a project requires a bit of funding to be accomplished, sometimes investors will step up to the plate and offer their help. Even more often, people will […]

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Google AdWords Ego Searching

C’mom, admit it, you’ve ego surfed… typed your name into Google to see what you come up with, or if your site is in the top ten. No? Just me?

Well here is a new game to play, see what ads a Google search leads your name to.

This all came about since a colleague mentioned that the prolific and generous linking Stephen Downes had posted something on his “home page” about me. An…. ahem… full URL is always better, but just being curious, I used the search box on Stephen’s site which uses Google search. I lost interest in combing the results, but got curious about all the AdWord references to me.

And curiosity got the better of me so a clicking I went ….

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PleaseReview – The online document review system – Home Pagethe new approach to collaborative document authoring & review. PleaseReview provides a structured, browser-based environment to manage the document review process and enable simultaneous, paragraph-by-paragraph reviews of MS Word documents and document sets. PDFs, images and other document types are also handled.Tags: collaboration Fair Use DayWe […]

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Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Free access. English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one! Tags: reference MBoffin.com – Designline – A Design Timeline I have often wondered what it would be like to see a web site design progress from start […]

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(Softly) Banging WordPress

I’ve not had nearly the desired time to monkey around in WordPress (hence the near stock template), but I am hoping over the more slow time of summer to slowly add and tinker and perhaps break. I am still trying to get my mind around the template/tag structure, which is fairly sensible. What I’d really […]