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Monday, January 31, 2005

Testing gnome-blog-poster

This is from the gnome-blog-poster (0.8) to WordPress 1.2.2-mingus.

For preferences, don't use 'Self-run Wordpress' -- it seems to generate a bogus URL that includes wordpress in it. Instead pick 'Self-run Other' and use the MetaWeblog protocol. The URL should be point to your xmlrpc.php in our web space, typically it is in the top level of the blog's directory.

Sunday, January 30, 2005

This Week's Del.icio.us bookmarks

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user MarcN

New Scientist Breaking News - Spherical robot provides rolling security cover --
This is cool Tagged as: [system:unfiled]

Dick Cheney, Dressing Down (washingtonpost.com) --
"...it was a knit ski cap, embroidered with the words "Staff 2001." It was the kind of hat a conventioneer might find in a goodie bag." Tagged as: [politics]

Rick Moen, Net Geek for Hire --
Tagged as: [linux]

Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein --
Cliff Notes to Philosophers Tagged as: [reference]

Updated Yet Another Daily del.icio.us hack

I've updated my Yet Another Daily del.icio.us (yadd.php) so it can be called once a week. I suppose it should be called Yet Another Weekly del.icio.us... (yawd-1.0.php).

Found through my ping-backs that zman has a patch to yadd.php so it doesn't create empty entries on days where there are no new bookmarks.

Enjoy.

Monday, January 24, 2005

Crucial Firefox extensions

+ del.icio.us plugin -- Add/remove/edit del.icio.us bookmarks from a right mouse click.

* Foxylicious -- grabs your del.icio.us bookmarks and adds them to your local Firefox bookmarks.

* sitebar plugin -- An alternative to del.icio.us. I started running a copy of the SiteBar server on my home Linux box, but it is just simpler to use del.icio.us and for private bookmarks to just keep it locally (internal corporate links, etc)

* webdeveloper plugin -- I don't use it much, but it is handy to find any links within a webpage.

* SwitchProxy tool -- switch proxies as needed. Useful when if you connect to various networks with different proxies settings.

Monster Truck Thunder Nationals

I took a couple of the boys and some of their friends to the Thunder Nationals up in Manchester, NH this weekend.

It had everything -- Monster Truck free style, Quad racing, motocross jumps and of course Monster Truck racing.

Here are some photos to give you the feel of being there -