I’ve discovered today that Wordpress ignores time changes due to Daylight Saving Time — sigh.
Google brought me to Kimmo Suominen’s solution: Time Zone plugin for WordPress.
Monthly Archive for October, 2005
Want to get rid of all that annoying ads on every web page you go?
Install that 2 Firefox extensions:
* AdBlock Plus
* Adblock Filterset.G Updater: adblock filters auto-updater
And restart your Firefox browser to get the Ad filtersets updated. You’re done!
Need a temporary email address for web site registration or whatever? Go to Jetable.org, type your real email address and they will give you a temporary generated email alias.
You can set the time validity of the address (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week). Easy and usefull!
They also provide you with a Firefox extension.
On my Debian GNU/Linux systems I’ve defined system wide shell aliases to ease the use of APT commands. Here they are:
# apt-cache
alias asearch="apt-cache search"
alias ashow="apt-cache show"
alias apolicy="apt-cache policy"
alias adepends="apt-cache depends"
# apt-get
alias ainstall="apt-get install"
alias aupdate="apt-get update"
alias aupgrade="apt-get upgrade"
# apt-get remove
alias aremove="apt-get remove"
alias apurge="apt-get remove --purge"
alias aclean="apt-get clean"
I put these lines in the new file that I saved as /etc/profile.d/aliases.apt , so the aliases are then available for every user logged on the system. The aliases are rather self-explanatory:
* To update APT packages db, I now type aupdate,
* to search a Debian package, now I just have to type asearch whatever
* to install a package, I type ainstall pkgname…
You probably noticed that the trend on web sites is to let you assign “tags” to some contents. These tags are keywords you freely choose for describing those contents.
For example, on Flickr, people give tags to their pictures. On del.icio.us, people tag their links.
By doing this, visitors of those sites can then browse the site content by browsing or searching thru the tags. It’s great — I love this!
Well, I actually discovered last week that this phenomenon is called folksonomy.
The Wikipedia defines it as:
…a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. In contrast to formal classification methods, this phenomenon typically only arises in non-hierarchical communities, such as public websites, as opposed to multi-level teams…
This phenomenon has a social component. When tagging, people are not limited to a set of established keywords, they can actually assign any tag of their choice. So the tag set represents people minds and is virtually unlimited.
Folksonomy based sites use to represent the tag set as a so-called “tag cloud”, where each tag boldness (or font size) shows the tag’s popularity amongs the users: the bigger the tag, the most popular it is.
Usually you can syndicate to any part of those sites, using RSS feeds (by user, by tags, most popular or newest entries…).
Here are some folksonomy based sites which I know and/or use (there must be a lot more — feel free to let me know them!):
* Flickr: place there your pictures repository,
* del.icio.us and RawSugar: social bookmarking sites,
* Readers2: Social list of books, share your reading experience with other people,
* MyProgs: Social list of programs - share your working experience with other people.
* 43Things: What do you want to do with your life?,
* Bank Of Ideas: store and share your ideas (for the moment it’s not working very well. It seems a bit experimental)…
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