I found out about the New York Public Library’s RSS feeds from the RSS Compendium Blog. Now, this is a library which gets Ress (or RSS, if you haven’t been clued in). There are feeds for librarians’ recommendations, events, exhibitions and the latest additions to their databases and indexes. Unfortunately, this is all lost on [...]
Month: December, 2005
Test post for Elaine
Roses are red, Violets are blue, RSS is badly named, Not many people Everyone doesn’t have a clue! =) (This is a test post to demonstrate RSS for a friend.)
Ress
What is Ress? Ress is a simple solution to an unpronouncable problem. That problem is RSS’ less-than-friendly name. It already has an identity crisis: Really Simple Syndication, RDF Site Summary (the person who came up with this one must be a Singaporean), Rich Site Summary… The least we can do it to give it a [...]
Backlinks
I’ve enabled Blogger’s Backlinks for a while now. It’s not the best implementation of this function. Most people wouldn’t bother to paste the permalink URL of their post in my blog, assuming they have referred to a post here. Then, I came across Jasper de Vries’ custom blogger backlinks. After tweaking with the code, I [...]
Ode to the learning capacity of three-year olds
I stumbled upon this blog entry of a student from the place where I work. Never underestimate kids’ ability to put things together. I was watching the biology animations that were posted in the [LMS] jus now… then came Bernise. She sat on my lap and watched with me. For your info, she is only [...]
Tweet Tweet- acroamatic: @addy_lee And if you visit the link again, it will tell you that you can only vote once.
- acroamatic: @addy_lee I mouseover-ed the link in Echofon, which reveals the actual URL. It's a voting link for option 5 - not interested.
- acroamatic: @mrbrown The poll has been gamed. Everyone who clicks the link unknowingly votes "not interested".
- acroamatic: @addy_lee Just discovered that's a sneaky link. It votes "not interested" without you knowing, then shows you the poll result.
- acroamatic: Sofian and baby Rayan http://flic.kr/p/8nD2nM
