Links January 5th
January 5th, 2009 • Uncategorized • Comments Off
- The Quantified Self - Quantifying Myself - "As Gary mentioned in his earlier post, I track myself - 40 things about my body, mind, and activity - every day. The fact that I do this tracking seems to interest people. Whether they are driven by curiosity about the phenomenon of personal data collection, or by the desire for a yardstick by which to measure and compare themselves, the fascination exists. To address this interest, and by way of introducing myself as a hopefully regular guest blogger at The Quantified Self, I have put together a FAQ about my personal tracking. Read on and you'll probably know more about me than you ever wanted to know."
- smashLAB - A Strategic Interactive Agency that facilitates breakthrough online communications - "smashLAB is a strategic interactive agency that facilitates breakthrough online communications. We help organizations effectively utilize digital media through brand planning, insight-driven design and the employment of online technologies."
- Journeys - In San Francisco Bars, a Cocktail Is Not Just a Drink - NYTimes.com -
- 10 Best Free WordPress Themes You Haven’t Seen :: Elite By Design -
- taschide´s blog - they use rapid manufacturing, desktop fab, etc.
- 45+ Must See WordPress themes - i need an aggregator for all these wordpress theme lists
Old posts slowly coming online
January 4th, 2009 • Uncategorized • No comments
One of the downsides of rolling your own weblog server is having to figure out how to migrate and move the old data around. Always a bother.
Bookmarks for January 1st through January 3rd
January 3rd, 2009 • Uncategorized • Comments Off
- Justin Blanton | Projects | Smart Archives -
- The Paupered Chef: The Smash Technique and Skinny Burger Perfection - hmmmm, i'll believe it after trying it.
- Arduino Ethernet and Pachube: remote sensors & web-control | pachube.community - "Below are a couple of sketches for Arduino Ethernet: the first can be used to share sensor data with Pachube and grab remote sensor data, so you can effectively have both "local" and "remote" sensors; and the second enables you to control Arduino Ethernet via a web page. These sketches should make Arduino-based web-controlled home automation, and remote-responsive spaces a lot easier. The advantage of working with an ethernet shield is that you no longer need to tether the Arduino to a computer in order to access Pachube and other network services!"
- How caramel developed a taste for salt - International Herald Tribune -
- Must Read: The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life -
Making homemade vanilla extract
January 2nd, 2009 • Uncategorized • No comments
Made about 2 cups, should last the year.
Update: Sorry, here’s the whole recipe. Throw the scrapings of 2 beans (or so) plus the beans themselves into 1 C of a good brandy. I use a jar. Put it somewhere dark. Every day or so give the the jar a shake. After a month of that, it’ll be fantastic.
Links January 1st
January 1st, 2009 • Uncategorized • Comments Off
- 11 Best Ways to Improve WordPress Security -
- PHP « Programming « Portfolio | lesterchan.net - quite the collection of wordpress plugins, already using some
- Top 10 Reputation Tracking Tools Worth Paying For - "Reputation management is essential to both individuals and companies. The more popular your brand is, the more critical it will be to keep tabs on it and the more time it will consume out of your day. [...] You should consider paid services if you are unable to manage and keep your pulse on your online reputation. Also, paid services help you analyze and understand the magnitude and sentiment of conversations around your brand, which would take you even longer if you did it manually."
- The 19 Best Movies That You Didn't See in 2008 « FirstShowing.net -
- foto_decadent: John Rawlings - "The introduction of American photographer John Rawlings to Vogue's visual team in 1936 was certainly one of Conde Nast's best strategic moves. At a time when opulence, pretentiousness, and theatrical lighting were prevalent in fashion photography - fueled by the European school led by the British Beaton, the German Horst, and the Russian Hoyningen-Huene - Nast and Vogue's editor in chief Edna Woolman Chase decided they needed a change of direction and placed their bets on a talented but unknown twenty-four-year Midwestener." Huge page, takes awhile to load, great photography
Links December 31st
January 1st, 2009 • Uncategorized • Comments Off
- Fimoculous.com - misc - 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 -
- Simple Bug and Issue Tracking | Sifter - “Sifter is a hosted bug and issue tracking application focused on making work less tedious. You can signup for a free trial to take it for a test drive or go on a quick tour full of video and screenshots to learn more.” Need to explore at some point.
- Design Decisions: The new Highrise signup chart - “A couple weeks ago we launched the new Highrise marketing site. We’re still iterating that design post-launch, and we have a big post brewing about that design process, but today I wanted to share some of the iterations we explored for the new signup chart.”
- How to import Tumblr into Wordpress ? - “My friend Miki, a hardware geek, is switching from Tumblr to Wordpress today. We had a discussion about “how can I import my Tumblr posts into Wordpress” for dummies ? I didn’t blog about it when I did it, but figured it’s maybe not that obvious for the average Joe (which I am). Wordpress so far doesn’t support the import of Tumblr posts. So your only option is to import them via the RSS stream as a file.”
What changed around here?
December 31st, 2008 • Uncategorized • No comments
Turns out, the last time I did a rebuild was way back in 2007. It’s been long overdue if you ask me. Not that I didn’t have fun building my old home-grown system with Django and friends. But I’ve been increasingly using other systems for connecting (Delicious, Twitter, Tumblr, FriendFeed, Facebook) and wishing for a way of pulling them together. Or having a common base. Or a common launching point. Actually, I don’t know what to call it yet. It’s a cloud! Sometimes I want an umbrella, sometimes I want a big bucket.
I’ve been doing web dev for a very long time but, surprisingly, have very little exposure to PHP. So I’ll be jumping right in with WordPress and security concerns and warts and all the rest. I’ve been partial to a particular way of presenting archives and tags that I haven’t yet found in the WordPress world so maybe that’ll be my first project.
You shouldn’t have to do anything about the feed url(s). Smooth transition over to Feedburner.
Still working on redirects for the old articles. Reminds me I need to actually figure out a way of importing them….
The last time I used server software I didn’t write myself was many years ago, so long ago I don’t even remember the name of it. It was Ruby and Rails however; does that narrow it down? I’m looking forward to WordPress. Plugin community is pretty strong, built-in commenting, spam prevention, every possible theme imaginable. So we’ll see.
Bacon: Ingredient of the Year
December 31st, 2008 • Uncategorized • No comments
Bacon: Ingredient of the Year | Serious Eats
And a Happy New Year to you all!