Misunderstood by everyone, everywhere.
I like this idea, Neutrino XML, from Fraser Speirs and Jason Deraleau.
It’s basically a way to aggregate all of the RSS feeds that are generated for or by a person. I could certainly benefit from this as currently I have the following feeds all about me:
cdu, cdu comments, cli.ph, flickr, audioscrobbler and del.icio.us.
That list will surely grow over time.
I’m now in the land of dial-up while I’m between DSL providers. Smart Telecom seem to be jolly slow at getting me setup.
Two of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year happen on Friday:
I happen to have the day off work on Friday so I think I’ll beat the rush and see H2G2 in the afternoon. I don’t have the day off especially to see it but there’s a rumour starting in work that I do. Speaking in work, they stiffed me for time I spent travelling on my last trip. I’ll make sure that the next time I travel I do as much as possible of it on the company’s time. Grumble.
[ Update ]
The Verdict: It’s Ok, but not smashing-super. It didn’t have enough jokes or passages from the guide which, for me, were the funniest parts in the originals. There are worse ways to spend 110 minutes.
Caveat: I’m a grumpy sod, you’ll probably enjoy it lots.
Yay, Google Maps for the UK and Ireland! Don’t we look dwarfed and in the wrong place? Searching by address doesn’t seem to work and they haven’t got the satellite imagery yet. What imaging of Ireland there is, like those that can be seen here, doesn’t compare to the hi-res snaps and aerial photos of North America.
My house.
Overheard in Dublin is a new site which has sprung up like a spring something something. Such is the site’s popularity that the site its self is becoming a topic of conversation I occasionally over hear in Dublin.
Being the pedantic, socially minded sort that I am, I’ve devised a list of improvements that could make this site much better and sent it to the webmaster.
Here are my recommendations:
- Individual links for quotes, either using anchors on a page or individual pages. The latter means more page impressions so hopefully more ad-revenue. Individual pages or links make it really easy to share a great quote with others.
- A moderation system is something that should be seriously configured. Some of the quotes are great. Some are dupes, blatantly false or simply not funny. If readers could click a link to indicate whether they thought a quote was funny or not, or perhaps mark a quote for review if there’s something seriously wrong with it, spam or offensive material for instance, it would really increase the value of the data. Following from this, if quotes have a popularity rating users can browse quotes by popularity, a chart of the 10, 50 or 100 quotes could be kept.
- Searching bu Quote ID or content would be useful.
Using PHP on the site as you are means that implementation of any one of these suggestions should be quite easy.
My input is influenced by QDB which is the software that runs the very popular quotes database bash.org
Like most of my recommendations my advice or suggestions will probably come across as patronising. Just last week I was speaking to the new girl, who uses a portable cd player to listen to music in work, and asked if she wanted some help transferring music to her PC. She let me know that was something she knew how to do. Boy, did I feel like a condescending heel.
Check out the newly launched Overheard in Cork from the same person/people.
storTroopers is back! After a hideously long hiatus.
Another couple of sites for making similarly viral avatars/icons are the South Park Studio and the Dookyweb Avatar Generator
Here are my old ones:
And I made some new ones:
I’ve had my DS for a while and I really like it. It was a great companion on recent flights. There aren’t too many games for it at the moment but there’s lots of good titles coming RSN.
Electroplankton, [ lots / of / news / and / reviews ], is a much hyped title that’s just been released in Japan that might never make it over here. So, instead of waiting for something that might never come, I ordered it from Lik Sang last night. The price was actually a little lower than what Play.com charge for DS games and Lik Sang are doing free delivery at the moment. Bargain!
For gaming and specifically Nintendo DS related news I’ve been checking out these sites recently:
Following my two recent trips abroad it’s time to update my Visited Countries Map:
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