WordPress.com, at some point over the past few weeks or so (I guess) started supporting the import of blog entries from Blogger.com blogs. This is fantastic, because I was participating in the maintenance of more than one blogger blog and ever since the move from the old Blogger to the new one I’ve been completely,…
Author: bkjones
Flickr Notes is the coolest thing ever
I can’t believe I’ve been using Flickr for like, two years, and only just now discovered “Notes”. I discovered them when I got a link from Tom Limoncelli’s blog to pics of the North Jersey LOPSA-NJ meeting that took place this past week. I stumbled upon this picture that had notes and completely lost my…
Finally! A Social Bookmark Link Generator for WordPress.com Users
If you want to allow readers of your wordpress.com blog to post your entries to stumbleupon, del.icio.us, or whatever, there isn’t a sidebar widget or anything provided for you to do that. I consider this a shortcoming of the wordpress.com service, but whatever. I finally found a bookmarklet that will provide some cut-n-paste code to…
My Google Calendar Wish List
So I’m still sort of in the process of building my “life management system”, the goal of which is to make it completely digital, while also attempting to make it as fool proof as my old Franklin Planner. Google Calendar is, so far, the foundation for this system. I really haven’t been using Google Calendar…
Time Management for *this* System Administrator
A fellow New Jerseyan, fellow LOPSA-NJ member, fellow O’Reilly author, and all around good guy Tom Limoncelli wrote a book called “Time Management for System Administrators”, in which he boiled down a lot of the concepts and philosophies you’d otherwise have to read multiple tomes to learn about. It’s a wonderful book, and it’s easy…
New Word: Blogume
I had this really neat idea today, but I don’t have time to develop it, so someone needs to go make a million bucks with it and send me like $25,000 for the idea fee. The idea is simple: Create a centralized website that basically hosts or aggregates blogs that are geared toward potential or…
Web 2.0 As Closed and Redundant as it is Cool and Creative
I admit that I use, and like, a number of so-called Web 2. 0 applications. The blog you’re reading is actually hosted at WordPress.com. The good folks there let me make it look like it lives somewhere else if I want to, and as an added bonus, WordPress is a downloadable, open source application in…
The Vista Verdict: Don’t Bother
With all of the hubbub surrounding Google Office today I decided to write this blog post using Google Writely, which is an in-browser word processor that is part of the Google Docs & Spreadsheets service. It’s pretty nice so far, and I like that it has an autosave feature, because I’ve made use of it…
Um… Nevermind
Ok, so I’m publicly uncommitting myself from the project I committed myself to yesterday. Turns out, Mark Burgess has already done this with a tool called DeliciousSQL Importer. Sure, the data model doesn’t stand up to my rigorous normalization standards, but with this, I can get at my data, and do whatever I want with…
XSLT, SQL, and Delicious Library
Ok, I’m publicly committing myself to this pet project. I’m going to make it possible to take the data in Delicious Library’s xml backend and store it in a properly normalized database, so that other useful things can be done with the data. Here’s the quandry I find myself in: I have a good number…