July 4, 2008
For a while now I’ve been bookmarking blog posts, news articles, web sites and tutorials I like via the del.icio.us bookmarking service, which is far more useful than your browser’s bookmarks/favourites for one simple reason: you can assign tags to whatever you bookmark. As we all know, tags and/or categories are incredibly useful way of sorting items into manageable chunks. There are other benefits too, but that’s the key one for me.
Recently I’ve been saving less and less to del.icio.us, and suspect it’s because my chunks were no longer manageable. I had well over 100 tags in my tag cloud, and tagging each new bookmark was becoming a nightmare: to assign tags I have to search through the huge list trying to find appropriate ones.
So today I sorted it out.
This is what my del.icio.us tag cloud looked like before:
And this is after 30 minutes of consolidating and deleting tags:
Much better!
Posted by Marty in Not important, but potentially interesting, Web & Tech
May 30, 2008
Just enabled Search on this site. Not a big deal but a web site’s not a proper web site without a search box, so it had to happen.
Posted by Marty in Not important, but potentially interesting, Web & Tech
May 27, 2008
Somewhere in my clicking this morning I came across this site, which is dedicated to respecting the Ampersand.
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If my friend Jeremy is reading this he’ll be banging his desk & wailing about how we should forget the frickin’ ampersand & focus on the interrobang, although he calls it a questclamation mark.
I agree with him. Why the hell doesn’t the interrobang get the respect it deserves, goddammit?! (See, we’d use them all the time if there was a key on our keyboard.)
Posted by Marty in Not important, but potentially interesting, Random thoughts
May 13, 2008
When I put the new martinjy site theme together I was careful to check that it validated as XHTML Strict (because supposedly that’s the “right” thing to do, although others disagree) and it did, mostly thanks to Wordpress’ excellence, but check this out:
All of those failures are related to either my Google Maps link, the Twitter feed, the background switcher or the post archive pull-down. None of those code snippets are written by me or Wordpress, so it looks like I have a choice to make - I keep my aggregation and site features and ignore the XHTML validation, or I ditch them all to get valid.
It seems odd to me that the clever bots who put out the code for these things aren’t validating them before they release them. I guess we can excuse the background switcher and post archive pull-down coders ‘cos they’re coding and releasing pro bono, but IMHO Google and Twitter should be trying harder. Maybe there’s some technical reason why it can’t be done, or maybe they’re part of the group that doesn’t see any real benefit in making the effort.
Actually, I think I’ve already made my decision. I like my site features.
Posted by Marty in Not important, but potentially interesting, Web & Tech, Web design
May 6, 2008
No Credit Needed has a tip for impulse buyers who are trying to spend less - impose a cooling-off period on yourself: for every $100 that the impulse buy will cost you, wait 1 day and then decide whether you still want to buy it.
I like the potential of the $100 a day rule. It’s similar to the want vs. need tip that I read about a few months ago, i.e. spenders like me and my wife need to ignore our impulses and think more carefully about why the item in question will improve our life.
Right now we’re in the middle of planning a holiday … I think we’ll give this rule a try on that and see what happens. Maybe it won’t work because a holiday isn’t an impulse buy? (Maybe it won’t work because a $3,000 holiday means waiting 30 days - I already know I need a holiday).
Posted by Marty in Not important, but potentially interesting
April 21, 2008
Twitter/steverubel pointed me to these two sites today: Office Snapshots and Home Office Snapshots. My fave is Six Apart, and this purple one. It’s just a shame that it’s purple.
The Six Apart office
Posted by Marty in Not important, but potentially interesting, Web & Tech, Web design
April 17, 2008
If I ever want a quick laugh at work I just fire up icanhascheezburger.com. Info about Lolcats on wikipedia here.
Posted by Marty in Not important, but potentially interesting, Web & Tech
