Monday, 5 April 2004

My donut had multi-colored duck and bunny sprinkles

Bear with me in the last non-blojsom posts to this blog...

Daylight savings started this past weekend in the United States. States may choose whether or not they will observe daylight savings time, Link. I happen to live in one of the 50 states that does observe daylight savings time. Relevant to you? Maybe. Relevant to me? Yes. Why? I own close to 30 watches.

I remember an ice breaker from a corporate training class where we were asked to describe the watch we were wearing. Let's go with that for now because I don't remember what you were asked to describe if you weren't wearing a watch. The point was that this was something you're initimate with every day, but somehow, someway, some details were, shall we say lost in translation.

Details are relevant in a particular context. For example, I chose the watch I wore this morning because a) I thought it matched my outfit and b) I chose not to wear it Saturday night. The watch is functioning properly. I changed its day and time this morning before I left for the office. The details of its color and style are now irrelevant. The details of it functioning correctly are now irrelevant. If I change outfits or its battery goes dead during the day, those details may not be so irrelevant.

The point is that in a given context, details affect the choices we make. At the drive-thru this morning, I asked for a bagel with cream cheese, coffee, and a vanilla frosted donut. My donut had multi-colored duck and bunny sprinkles. I did not choose a donut with sprinkles. If you're reading this before you head to work, maybe you'll make a choice I was not given.

Posted by david at 9:37 PM in My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

blojsom plugin: Personalized RSS feeds in blojsom using the Search plugin

It's almost like a mini version of Feedster only it's not Feedster. I originally posted about this in my "Re: RSS Search" post which was in response to Russell's RSS search hack.

So, it's not a hack, just a way to use blojsom's flavor-based plugins in some interesting ways.

And by interesting ways, maybe an RSS feed for posts mentioning Adam Curry. You want your MTV? You got it /images/emoticons/mozilla_wink.gif

Posted by david at 1:26 PM in blojsom ... all blojsom

blojsom plugin: Highlighting Google searches in your blog entries

The Google highlight plugin for blojsom will highlight words on your blog if the referer came from a Google query. For example, click on the last link (Bedeviled Mojo Slop (Reloaded)) for this Google search "Adam Curry photo". You should see the search terms highlighted in yellow.

It's just a matter of adding the plugin to one of your flavor-based plugin chains. Ahhhh ... the simplicity of it all.

Posted by david at 1:10 PM in blojsom ... all blojsom

Creepy when you find your name in a GMail screenshot

Moblog shot. I'm the 4th name down in the list. You can't make this stuff up people.

Google knows all. Google sees all.

I therefore rescind an earlier statement that GMail is just webmail. Google products are all powerful!

Posted by david at 9:06 AM in My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
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