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Friday, October 21, 2005
Longest Word with valid search results?
Just for fun. I wonder what is the longest possible string (with no space) that will return valid search results from the common search engines like Google and Yahoo. One search term that turned up in the web traffic report for my other blog is "AbstractTransactionalSpringContextTests". A total of 39 characters, any one with suggestions of a longer search term?
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
1TB Email!
MailNation Solutions Blog > 1TB Email!
Unbelievable? Believe it. :)
But I think I will still stick to GMail. I don't need that much space for email. (Maybe Adam Curry will need it, he is the first person I hear of maxing out his GMail box.)
Unbelievable? Believe it. :)
But I think I will still stick to GMail. I don't need that much space for email. (Maybe Adam Curry will need it, he is the first person I hear of maxing out his GMail box.)
Filed in: coolstuff
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
TiddlyWiki
Once in a while I would come across something that is so addictive that it blows me away. TiddlyWiki is a self-contained HTML file that has the many functionalities of a Wiki, and there are a number of extensions and plugins that make it interesting.
I have not started playing with it, but the process of understanding it is already interesting enough. More details in days to come. :)
I have not started playing with it, but the process of understanding it is already interesting enough. More details in days to come. :)
Filed in: wiki tiddlywiki coolstuff
Saturday, September 24, 2005
My first GreaseMonkey script
Following yesterday's post on editing comments in Blogger, I took some time to write a greasemonkey script for adding a link to edit comments.
Filed in: blogger hack greasemonkey
Friday, September 23, 2005
Editing blogger comments
Ok, once I am a little more active about posting to this blog, I get spam comments. I did not want to block anonymous posting because I have previous feedback from friends saying that they want to post comments but don't want to log on to Blogger. So do I have to put up with spam comments?? No, but all I could do previously was to (rudely) delete the whole comment post, leaving some others scratching their heads about why a comment was deleted (it only shows up in my blog as 'comment deleted').
By default Blogger does not have a link to allow me to edit comments, it only has a trash can icon allowing me to delete comments. Google brought me to the Blogger templates site, which has a quick hack to bring me to the edit comments page.
On closer inspection, basically the hack works on the fact that comment posts are also identified by blog ID and post ID. The trash can icon link contains these information, but it is for the delete-comment.g URL. The Blogger template hack simply replaces the URL to post-edit.g. Hmm, maybe I can try my hand at writing a simple GreaseMonkey script to add the edit comment link beside the trash can icon. That will be for later. :)
[update] Found a blogger comments editor at userscripts.org, but it seems to only add the link to the page for adding new comments.
[update2] Ok, I was ignorant, just learnt that Blogger has a feature to turn on captcha (word verification) feature for comments.
By default Blogger does not have a link to allow me to edit comments, it only has a trash can icon allowing me to delete comments. Google brought me to the Blogger templates site, which has a quick hack to bring me to the edit comments page.
On closer inspection, basically the hack works on the fact that comment posts are also identified by blog ID and post ID. The trash can icon link contains these information, but it is for the delete-comment.g URL. The Blogger template hack simply replaces the URL to post-edit.g. Hmm, maybe I can try my hand at writing a simple GreaseMonkey script to add the edit comment link beside the trash can icon. That will be for later. :)
[update] Found a blogger comments editor at userscripts.org, but it seems to only add the link to the page for adding new comments.
[update2] Ok, I was ignorant, just learnt that Blogger has a feature to turn on captcha (word verification) feature for comments.
del.icio.us as a cognitive engine?
del.icio.us is a popular and good site for tagging, and many people have devised many different ways to use it. The categorisation method I have recently started using in this blog is also based on the tagging ability of del.icio.us, a blogger hack I learnt from FreshBlog.
As I stumbled on Typo just now, I suddenly discovered another use of del.icio.us : when you come across a new site and don't know what it is all about, the fasted way to find out about it is not to read the description on the site, but to try to bookmark the site using del.icio.us. This is because when you try to bookmark the site (typically using the 'remember this' bookmarklet), del.icio.us will display the form for you to tag the site, along with the recommended tags that del.icio.us thinks that will be relevant for this site (I guess this is based on tagging by other users).
As a result, at a glance you will know the possible tags that this site could fall under, and this can tell you a lot about the site. Take the Typo site for example, when I clicked my bookmarklet, the recommended tags are:
ajax blog blogging blogtool development engine framework opensource programming rails ruby rubyonrails tool tools wordpress
Apparently these are tags taken from my existing tags, but the important thing is that del.icio.us immediately told me a lot about typo based on tags I understand - tags I use. Within 2 seconds, I can conclude that Typo is a blogging tool, opensourced, based on ruby on rails and is somewhat related to wordpress (substite or enhancement, that I will have to find out by reading more on the Typo site).
So del.icio.us can sometimes even be turned into a cognitive engine to tell me about a site before I need to read anything from the site, and the best part is it tells me this by using tags I use.
As I stumbled on Typo just now, I suddenly discovered another use of del.icio.us : when you come across a new site and don't know what it is all about, the fasted way to find out about it is not to read the description on the site, but to try to bookmark the site using del.icio.us. This is because when you try to bookmark the site (typically using the 'remember this' bookmarklet), del.icio.us will display the form for you to tag the site, along with the recommended tags that del.icio.us thinks that will be relevant for this site (I guess this is based on tagging by other users).
As a result, at a glance you will know the possible tags that this site could fall under, and this can tell you a lot about the site. Take the Typo site for example, when I clicked my bookmarklet, the recommended tags are:
ajax blog blogging blogtool development engine framework opensource programming rails ruby rubyonrails tool tools wordpress
Apparently these are tags taken from my existing tags, but the important thing is that del.icio.us immediately told me a lot about typo based on tags I understand - tags I use. Within 2 seconds, I can conclude that Typo is a blogging tool, opensourced, based on ruby on rails and is somewhat related to wordpress (substite or enhancement, that I will have to find out by reading more on the Typo site).
So del.icio.us can sometimes even be turned into a cognitive engine to tell me about a site before I need to read anything from the site, and the best part is it tells me this by using tags I use.
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Nokia N91
My mobile contract expired this week, and I started to look around for new phone models I can buy (hopefully), and I came across the Nokia N91, which is really a phone that has EVERYTHING I ever wanted (so far) in a phone. Too bad Nokia also just announced recently that this model is going to be delayed to early 2006. The price is going to be too steep for my liking to, judging from the estimate I see from this article from infosyncworld (look for the estimated price at the last paragraph.
Scott Laird has been tracking N91 pretty well, a good reference site for knowing what has been happening with this phone.
Another thing I learnt from Scott's blog is that there is this new blogging engine known as Typo based on Rails (maybe even RoR) with quite a lot of good features out of the box.
Scott Laird has been tracking N91 pretty well, a good reference site for knowing what has been happening with this phone.
Another thing I learnt from Scott's blog is that there is this new blogging engine known as Typo based on Rails (maybe even RoR) with quite a lot of good features out of the box.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Playing with GreaseMonkey
Just installed the GreaseMonkey extension today and browsed userscripts.org to look for scripts to play with. Came across this script that allows me to add tags to my blog, pointing to del.ico.us and technorati, effectively creating categories in Blogger. Let's test it out. :)
Filed in: tagging del.icio.us technorati greasemonkey
Friday, September 09, 2005
Approached by a friend on network marketing
Ok, I try to keep my mind opened and go listen to a presentation again. Still I walked out of the presentation thinking these guys are only a bunch of motivation speakers wannabe reusing the same descriptions over and over again. "So-and-so is a great guy to help you build your passive income business because he has good work-ethics", "so-and-so is such an amazing couple", "do you want to achieve your dream", and other sentences like this peppered the whole evening's presentation.
They always talk about building a business and being a business owner, but I really wonder how many of them talk about a business in terms of revenue, expenses, costs, gross profit, net profit, tax etc etc etc. Isn't the bottom-line what people always look for in a business?? No, in the network marketing world, it is the down-line you are concerned with, nevermind that only that few blessed individuals who started the network are the only case studies you can show with the multiple down-lines which you always dangle as carrots to the prospective recruit.
Maybe I don't understand the business of network marketing, but no-one who approached me has bothered to explain the mechanics to me. They are always too concerned with rehashing the rhetorics. Ok, history has proven that network marketing company works, but shouldn't the recruitment process be more pragmatic and appeal to people's power to reason and identify a working business model, than to appeal to people's greed (disguised as 'dream')??
To make matters worst, I have to receive an SMS followed by a phone call at 12.30am from this friend after the session, asking for more of my time during my precious weekend to sell me more about the idea. Oh, and the CD they passed me for reference in my own time, they need it back in two days...... I really wonder what is the hurry, don't they know that such pressure tactics scare people off?
They always talk about building a business and being a business owner, but I really wonder how many of them talk about a business in terms of revenue, expenses, costs, gross profit, net profit, tax etc etc etc. Isn't the bottom-line what people always look for in a business?? No, in the network marketing world, it is the down-line you are concerned with, nevermind that only that few blessed individuals who started the network are the only case studies you can show with the multiple down-lines which you always dangle as carrots to the prospective recruit.
Maybe I don't understand the business of network marketing, but no-one who approached me has bothered to explain the mechanics to me. They are always too concerned with rehashing the rhetorics. Ok, history has proven that network marketing company works, but shouldn't the recruitment process be more pragmatic and appeal to people's power to reason and identify a working business model, than to appeal to people's greed (disguised as 'dream')??
To make matters worst, I have to receive an SMS followed by a phone call at 12.30am from this friend after the session, asking for more of my time during my precious weekend to sell me more about the idea. Oh, and the CD they passed me for reference in my own time, they need it back in two days...... I really wonder what is the hurry, don't they know that such pressure tactics scare people off?
Saturday, August 27, 2005
NeoCOUNTER by NeoWORX - The only web counter that displays your online visitors by country
Then again, blogexplosion give me an exposure to site that I would not otherwise have known/gone to. Quite a lot of things to learn from other blocks, like this tool I saw off one blog.
NeoCOUNTER by NeoWORX - The only web counter that displays your online visitors by country
NeoCOUNTER by NeoWORX - The only web counter that displays your online visitors by country
TotallyConfused
Just joined blogexplosion. Initial impression is that it is a site that use mechanisms to make people click on other people's site. Not too much of a use. I will click on the surf button, go do something else, and come back half a minute later to click on the "GO" button. Actually quite waste of time because the traffic coming to your site is not really reading, just surfing.
OfficeGuns - Guns - Double Maul
Some people are really too free and have a lot of time on their hands.
OfficeGuns - Guns - Double Maul
OfficeGuns - Guns - Double Maul
Friday, August 26, 2005
Monday, August 22, 2005
Acronym Hell
Someone was telling me foreigners cannot understand Singaporean speaking English (even when the accent is not beng-ish or PCK-like), because we pepper our sentences with too many acronyms. Guess Dilbert would feel comfortable when he comes to Singapore.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Cancer-causing Fried Chicken Rice
Bought fried chicken wing rice from Rivervale Mall's food court today. The stall owner re-fried the chicken wing before bringing it to be packaged in the styrofoam box. When I returned home and opened the box, I realised that the heat from the chicken wing melted a part of the box. You can see from the image above that the mark is obviously from the chicken wing. Did not dare to eat this part of the wing.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Paper Rulers
We rarely own stationery nowadays, since the PC/notebook has already taken over most of our needs for writing. Today I was looking for a ruler, and realised that it is an item that has disappeared from my desk for a very long time.
As always, the Internet is here to the rescue, and Google is the hero of the day again. A search for "print ruler" led me to a page with printed rulers. Great!
As always, the Internet is here to the rescue, and Google is the hero of the day again. A search for "print ruler" led me to a page with printed rulers. Great!
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