An unprecedented 3 entries in one day!
This entry isn’t project related though, just an addition to the hate list.
Why isn’t there a spellcheck option in WordPress?
It’s one of those things that is really handy and useful. Plus, it makes entries nicer to read.
Perhaps I can find a plugin for it.
Breadth-first search would result in computers exploding due to the size of the database before I could get anywhere with results.
Depth-first search would work better, but may still need to impose a limit on the number of links down it goes.
In other news, it occured to me that podcasts have a very similar format to blogs (in fact, they are blogs, just with the addition of sound files in their feed), so I may need to find some way of dealing with this.
Also, Talkr is a services that turns text-based blogs into podcasts. Looks fairly interesting, but I doubt I’ll ever use it. I read all the blogs I subscribe to quicker than I could listen to them and I already have a hefty menu of podcasts that I listen to regularly.
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes - Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
Number two on the list is certainly something I agree with. I have my photo on the about page of this blog, so that my supervisor might be able to recognise me, and associate me with my project.
As for number ten, I only have this blog hosted on my own space because it’s not so important for all my friends to read it - it doesn’t really say what’s going on in my life. At least in my own mind, it makes it a “work” blog rather than a “play” blog and helps to ensure that the content is at least vaguely on topic.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Can fingerprints wear away?
If the letters and texture of my keyboard keys wear down within 6 months of getting it, then I think I can probably assume that my fingerprints are in no better shape. 
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Bang blast
If I found any one of my blogs (aside from perhaps the fictional character roleplaying ones) covered in adverts about bleach… I would be more likely to buy some other brand. I’ve become very attached to my blogs over the years and on the whole, they’re very much a personal thing.
I put my diary online because I tend to lose paper diaries. I use security functions to keep the more private stuff private, but as when I look at my blog, I see all the entries at once, even advertising on an entry that just had the results from an online quiz on would feel intrusive.
It’s interesting to think how a blog, which pretty much anyone can read and is mostly publish publically, can be thought of as private.
I gave up on getting any of the wordpress plugins I found to work. I figure that it’s probably easier to just stick with what I know… and that’s spacking rss feeds into webpages.
heh. Most of my personal site is entirely generated using rss - I found that I was terrible at updating websites, especially ones about me, but using feeds from various online journals/blogs I keep and bookmark sites, it made it a lot easier to have current content online.
The sidebar on this blog not only now has links to relevant sites I’ve looked at recently, but I managed to sort out a feed of the music that I’m listening to as well. I do like rss. It is tempting to change my project entirely into something that keeps track of people but the rss trails they leave… but I suspect it may already have been done and it’s a bit late to change tack now. heh.
Adding wordpress plugins to the Hate List. Or at least my inability to get them to work!
Reading is so boring, but sadly it must be done! I don’t want to miss any of the good bits. If there are any in this book. Heh.
The new semester has just started so I’ve been spending money on secondhand books for modules, doing reading and note-making for my project and going to lectures. I’ve found that a good project reading time is the hour before my Monday and Tuesday lectures, as my housemates have a lecture an hour before mine start, so I walk to campus with them and loiter somewhere doing my reading. Or as I like to call it, “project reading for great yay”.
Didn’t manage to do as much work over the holiday as I would have liked… various family things got in the way mostly as well as the “lounging recovering from family things” part of the last few months.
Other than academic activities, I’ve managed to spend mildly scary amounts of money on perfume oils from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. On the plus side though, any oils that don’t smell good on my skin or in an oil burner can be easily ebayed.
And when did “ebay” turn into a verb? The same time as “google” and “blog”?
Oh! And I’ve been trying to fiddle with wordpress to get my current playlist to show up in the sidebar, but all the current wordpress plugins I’ve looked at completely fail to work. The one that’s stuck on there at the moment is being eyed dubiously as to it’s workingness. I may just stick in some kind of javascript doodah working from my Last.fm rss file.
Well. They probably didn’t actually steal it, but Google has just launched their Blog Search tool.
Which is kind of like my project. In a way.
My lovely hosting people wrote about spammers and our old friend, the nigerian businessman/prince who wants to share his millions. I hadn’t really thought about the fact that these people sign up for webhosting to do their spamming, and 20% of sign ups is quite a big proportion really.
Mostly though, I think “Fraudinator” is a great name for a fraud detecting system. 
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