Things I have done in the last week or so:
- Turned my MySpace page into a tumbleblog (cooler non-myspace version here) to try to funnel some of my friends who live on myspace out into the actual internet. This is all powered by standard PHP5 with lastRSS.
- PHP script to provide an RSS feed of your weekly last.fm charts. It just displays the most recent week’s charts, but that’s enough really. Useful for, say, including the charts in your tumbleblog. [source]
- Updated Flickr Photo Page Enhancer greasemonkey script. Changes to flickr site = changes to script.
I’ve also worked 43 hours as of Thursday, and also, excitingly, my car blew up. Which means lots of exciting meetings with loan officers at my bank as they try to find polite ways to say “have you actually seen your credit report, fool?” So I don’t know what else you might want from me, but you ain’t getting it. I’m going to bed now.
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Hey there,
Thanks so much for your work on the Flickr Photo Page Enhancer, I just stumbled upon it. My only question is, is it supposed to work with one’s private photos? The only time I can get it to work(specifically the download diff sizes,etc) is when my photos are public. Thanks for any info.
No, it’s based upon the flickr api, and in order for it to see your private photos it would have to be authenticated, which — as you’ll see if you follow that link — is really complicated. I’ve been toying with refactoring the script to just use flickr’s own in-page code for api calls, which would skirt the whoule authentication issue, but I haven’t gotten around to it. I’ll probably work on that soon, though.
Actually, forget that. I looked into a little further, and it turned out to be really easy. The script now works for private/friend/family photos. Re-install from the original location to update.
Awesome, thanks so much! Works great.
I have been searching for additional details of an upcoming holiday:
“Day of Lost Data” on October 24th.
Your site was the ONLY reference to this event I could find.
> Thinking about holidays - Posted on October 31st, 2000 /
> Thinking about holidays, I just realized that I forgot to commemorate the
> Day of Lost Data, October 24th, this year. I think that’s bad mojo.
> (October 24th? 10-24? Geek joke, nevermind.)
It seems that not enough of us said our prayers for the lost data over the years which has resulted in the day itself being lost.
Ha! That may have more to do with my site’s undeservedly high pagerank on certain topics. Or maybe it has been superseded by Talk Like a Pirate Day? Geeks make up a lot of holidays, praise Bob.