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25 June 2004   

 

Little in Japan tonight

"PreminiOnce more, NTT DoCoMo (we’re beginning to think they should be called DroolSoMo) will be releasing a phone to the Japanese market which makes us half consider dropping our American citizenship—this one holds the record as being the smallest Internet-enabled cell phone in the world (probably for like, 15 minutes). The Premini is 9cm by 4cm by 2cm, which is almost exactly like talking into a short stack of credit cards. And for once a manufacturer actually took into account the size of the keys in proportion to the human finger, and addressed the ergonomics issue with a tactile feedback model they call Slopekey. And what’s more, they must have read our earlier post, and gave us all a print-your-own paper model of the thing! Could it get any better?"
[Via JapanToday]


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Stylesheets in RSS?

menu of boilerplate menu


A tonne of boilerplates, pick one and it is placed in your outline, where your cursor is.

I use Radio's outliner to post new news items, and thus have access to the excellent biolerplater. So I can whack chunks of stylesheet stuff easily into my postings, or my stories.

stylesheetsInRssasis
Some of the stylesheet info in an outline.

All very good, when I can link to the actual stylesheets in the headers of my HTML #homePageTemplate. But when it comes to others reading my site via the RSS version, the style info is completely lost. What I could do is write the whole of the stylesheet info out. Thus:
<span class="captions"> would become:
<span style="color:#737373;font-style:italic">
Easy enough, using boilerplates. But, some of my stylesheets use different sizes and positions, depending on how the viewer wants to read them (see pick a style sheet that suits you at the top of this page), different screen resolutions are an example. So, I'd be constraining myself in my HTML version for the RSS version. Unless I used the RSS callbacks to replace the HTML linked stylesheets with the explicit versions for RSS.

But, then I'd have the RSS purists after my ass. They don't want any formatting. Just plain info. Some don't even want pictures. And some RSS readers, I believe, cannot even see HTML let alone render it correctly.

What would I say to them? Screw you! You don't like my feed, bugger off, and unsubscribe! Or I could make another feed that's just text...
 


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Extending Radio's aggregator posting method

I've been thinking about blogging via the Radio aggregator. I've already customised some of it, so that I use radioExpress (which I've re-written anyway). Now, when I click on the post icon, the title of the story is added to the title part of my post form, similar with the url.

post buttons from Radio's aggregator page

The Radio aggregator showing the POST icon, a # which the permalink, and a pencil icon which links through to the comment link for that item.

Anyway, what would be cool, is to have several post buttons. One for the old behaviour one for my new. And more importantly perhaps, one so that it creates a link blog type post which would use a different and minimal #itemTemplate (perhaps just a purple #). These could even be auto posted—I hit the post button, and that's what happens, with no further editing from me. (Though I could take this much further and get Radio to fetch the article, stick it into a page with the other items I'm intending to read, and perhaps even print it out?) I could also have different types of link blogs, (actually categories in Radio's parlance), and icons for them too.

I already have two different blog icons in my news2email process. two blog icons from my news2email page

Two blog buttons in my news2email emails. One to use Radio Express, one to use Radio's usual 127.0.0.1:5335/?idStory=159807 method, that is the old behaviour as noted above.

old behaviour with title and URL empty

Old behaviour, with empty URL and Title fields. Everything is in the post text field, even a via link. Forcing me to copy paste the URL and title from the post text into the correct fields.

new behaviour with Radio Express

New behaviour. Post text field contains the description element from the RSS feed, while the URL contains the permalink, and the title field contains the title of the post. No via link (so far).

 


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AOL to Buy Advertising.com, an Online Direct Marketer

Aggressive marketing? That's a new term to me. "Spam is here to stay. If you look under the hood, everyone is doing deals that are related to spammers."

I hope the cluetrainers will one day put a bullet in these heads. Think of the wasted money that we, as consumers, pay. Are we really so gullible? Do we really buy pills to increase our willies?

"50% of my advertising works, I just don't know which 50%." I think it's much lower than 50% these days.


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Metafilter: South Korean government bans Kim Sun-Il execution video.

" South Korean government bans Kim Sun-Il execution video. Activates government emergency internet monitoring system. Orders web sites and ISPs to comply. "Web sites that fail to follow through the instructions will be subject to shut-down or police investigation".
Several South Korean web sites have already been shut down, while other sites, such as Yahoo! Korea, are assisting the government by blocking and censoring their user's email. Meanwhile, a general strike, massive antiwar protests, and a refusal by airline unions may prevent the deployment and supply of 3,000 South Korean soldiers to Iraq, as well as the rule of the current South Korean government.
Numerous U.S. websites are being blocked, and one of the sites, Ogrish.com, is under attack from hackers for carrying the execution video. (warning: tragic and traumatic. Windows Media.)"

There's some awful videos at Ogrish. Saddam hench men cutting tongues out, fingers off. Decapitations. I wish I hadn't gone there. I really wish I wasn't such a sicko rubber necker. Those videos are going to have flashback qualities for days to come. I really could do without that.


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Bit torrent downloading

Been hanging around suprnova.org yesterday, downloading a gig anf a half of music in the background. All of my other torrent sites have gone since I was last there, probably a month or two. So, how come the largest suprnova is still alive. Surely, it's under a tonne of pressure?

Remember to use some protection while you're out there. Otherwise, you'll have Sony or RIAA looking down your ports.


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