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xfn friends representation
i've been thinking about how a chart might be programatically generated.
here is a chart made by hand in inkscape.
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where to keep money
when last i checked, paypal was the best place to keep money 100% liquid and earn a small return. the money market fund for paypal balances has fallen from 5% last year to a current 3.3%. where is a good place to keep money? i feel slightly more brave/interested so an investment that is not liquid for a short amount of time is also ok. Certs. of ( Read more... ) -
running log
5 miles. 50 minutes, 30 seconds. donp, this is tower control, you have been cleared for shamrock takeoff.
very nice run today. my pace is stuck at 10 minutes/mile. i would like to quicken that. -
running log
4 miles. 40 minutes.
yeah.
two weeks until the shamrock run. -
PDA as a second monitor
im moving my desktop back to ubuntu after a few months on vista. i've been thinking about pidgin and how it works and finding out its not as extensible as i was hoping. as i was shuffling windows around so that my IM list had its own spot in the corner i thought for a moment that a second monitor would be nice. i've had a second monitor before and ( Read more... ) -
friendfeed and rss readers
friendfeed primarily takes multiple rss feeds and presents them as a single list. the funny thing is most RSS readers already do this. Taking as an example, Veronica Belmont and Chris Messina, i can get their 'activity stream' by subscribing to their individual feeds as demonstrated in google reader ( Read more... ) -
Sam Adams
yesterday i was at the urban grind and Sam Adams walked in. There was hardly anyone else in the cafe. We chatted a bit about personal telco and bicycles. I went to his mayoral campaign kickoff party tonight. It was entertaining. I met sam c. there and ran into a woman i met a few times at the lighthouse. I've been making good use of my Moo cards ( Read more... ) -
building activity streams
i sort of knew these existed but never tried one.
i just tried friendfeed this morning and its ease of signup is amazing. in 60 seconds i had it configured to read from this blog, twitter, flickr, youtube, delicious, and netflix. now i have an activity stream. i think its html layout could be much improved. there are other services too, like readr ( Read more... ) -
composite RSS feed / activity stream
put your home page into my XFN lister and see what links are there.
here is an excellent example of an activity stream
at david recordon's blog
take the RSS feeds of your online services and combine/filter them into one 'high value' stream.