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{ Monthly Archives } January 2006

RSS Alerts to IM: immedi.at

Never been much for actually using RSS readers. What I really wanted was a way of knowing when new posts had been added to blogs I read. So – I looked, and I found! http://immedi.at/ Simple bookmarklet which will send you instant messages whenever monitored urls are updated. Very cool. Chuck – another good reason [...]

Beer – The Buffalo Theory

One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. Here’s how it went: “Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back [...]

State your intentions!

I will start a page on the blog, called “State your intentions”. Or something similar. We’ll see what creative energies are flowing nearer the time. Anywho – the gist is that it will be a list of things I intend to do. As well as the progress I’m making towards achieving them. That way I [...]

WordPress Rich Text butchering HTML?

Hmm. I’m got mixed feelings about the rich text editor in WordPress. Even when you go to edit the HTML is the pop up window, it lies to you. Attempting to make some pages validate correctly made me realise that WordPress wasn’t always showing me what was actually there. The HTML pop up window would [...]

Doughnut Logic

As you go about through life, whatever be your goal: keeps your eyes upon the doughnut, and not upon the hole.

New Toy – FAlbum for our Photos! (Still using Flickr)

Whilst I’ve been playing around with trying to get the CSS working attempting to blog photos from Flickr, I came across an awesome lil WordPress plugin called FAlbum. This uses the Flickr API to show you all the images from your Flickr account, including all the sets, tags and descriptions. You don’t get the community [...]

Freddy Teddy Is Home!!

Freddy Teddy Is Home!! Originally uploaded by EdGillett At long last, Freddy Teddy has returned home, safe and sound. True to their word, the TeddyNappers had not harmed Freddy and delivered him back home safe and sound tonight. I came home to find him in a bag in my hallway (they had keys apparently), wrapped [...]

Hmm … old photos …

Seems I posted quite a few of the old photos on this site directly to Blogger, and you can’t access those externally. Will migrate all the old photos across to Flickr and reindex the old blog posts soon. Cos I know you all enjoy reading the old stuff. I also promise to correctly categorise all [...]

Freddy Teddy with Little Britain waxworks.

Freddy Teddy with Little Britain waxworks. Somewhere …Originally uploaded by EdGillett. Yes, my teddy bear is still missing, and being forced to travel around with the TeddyNappers against his will. His return is promised shortly. We’ll just have to wait and see.

retrievr: more fun with flickr

http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/ Very cool – sketch something, pick colours and this experimental tool will return you all the photos from flickr which it thinks match your entry. Very interesting results – clever stuff. I like Flickr Lots of people all over the globe having fun with it! All my photos on Flickr: http://photos.edgillett.com