Published on Sunday October 23rd, 2005 .
Do you know the “define:” Google’s keyword? It’s a powerfull keyword that let you look for word definitions on the web.
For example, yesterday I was looking for the definition of the word misgiving, so I googled it, and it gave me:
* scruple: uneasiness about the fitness of an action
* apprehension: painful expectation
* doubt about someone’s honesty
I find it very usefull. However I still have to open a new google page and type there the define: query, what I find a bit unefficient.
As i couldn’t find any bookmarklet to achieve that for me, I modified one that catches any selected word on the active page and look for it on Google. The result is: Google definition bookmarklet.
As any bookmarklet, just bookmark it and you can use it. Then when reading a web page, if you want to look for a word’s definition, just select the word and click the bookmarklet in your browser bar.
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Published on Thursday October 20th, 2005 .
I wanted to have a flickr-like badge: I mean a way to have the last 5 pictures that I added to my Coppermine gallery be shown on my blog sidebar.
I especially wanted:
* to display public pictures only,
* to be able to have some pictures not to appear in the badge.
I’ve been looking for an existing WP plugin, but couldn’t get to find any, so i decided to start learning a bit of php to do-it-myself!
I’ve accomplished the first point by using the album visibility field: if visibility=0, it’s a public album.
Then, to discard some pictures from appearing in the badge, i use the keywords. I’ll select only pictures which do not have the “nobadge” keyword. (I’ve defined this special keyword arbitrarily.)
The resulting MySQL query I use is:
SELECT pid,filepath,filename,p.title
FROM cpg_pictures p, cpg_albums a
WHERE a.aid=p.aid
AND keywords NOT LIKE "%nobadge%"
AND a.visibility=0
ORDER BY pid DESC LIMIT 5;
Doing the remaining work was rather easy… The resulting “badge” appears in the sidebar!
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Published on Sunday October 9th, 2005 .
Amazed by Flickr and del.icio.us tagging funcionality, I have been looking for a Wordpress plugin able to do the same kind of things:
* Let me _tag my posts_,
* Generate a _tag map_, also called _tag cosmos_ (look at the sidebar’s tags section),
* Let readers click a tag and get redirected to all the post tagged with it
After looking at various plugins, I’ve tried and selected Jerome’s Keywords Plugin, which gives me all that.
One more thing: tags are saved into the MySQL database in the wp_postmeta table.
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Published on Saturday October 8th, 2005 .
I love Del.icio.us ! It’s a “social bookmarks” manager. Some of the features are :
* Your bookmarks will always be available to you, from anywhere,
* They are public, so anyone can also see them,
* You can tag them with keywords: it’s more powerfull than organizing them into folders (because usually every bookmark can only be in one folder). With del.icio.us, you can assign several tags to them.
* Del.icio.us provides you many level of feeds (top leval, tag level…),
How does it work? Is it eficient ?
Yes, it’s tremendously efficient: From del.icio.us you get an “Add to my del.icio.us” bookmarklet: it’s a piece of Javascript that you place as a bookmark in your browser(s) links toolbar. Then, every time you want to bookmark a page into your del.icio.us, you just have to click on the bookmarklet link in the toolbar. The Del.icio.us page opens, you can then write down some keyword (”tags”) related to the page, and when you save you come back to the page you were reading.
IMHO(In my humble opinion) del.icio.us is one of the thing that make surfing easier…
If you want, you can also place the last addition to your del.icio.us on your blog page, to share your last reading pages with other people — in my case, i use the WordPress del.icio.us plugin to publish my del.icio.us on this page.
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Published on Friday October 7th, 2005 .
This morning i needed to check some HP hardware parts information, so i went to HP’s Partsurfer site.
As soon as the page achieved to load in my Firefox browser, i got rather suprised; look at this:
For those who haven’t noticed it, look at the site favicon. Got it? If not, compare it with this one: 
! Kinda funny, insn’t it?
I decided to check what web server was running there, so i queried netcraft, and the answer is:
http://partsurfer.hp.com was running Sun-ONE-Web-Server on Windows 2000 when last queried at 6-Oct-2005 17:06:09
I recognize i was a bit disapointed, as I’d prefer it be running Apache on HP-UX, like www.hp.com.
Anyway nobody’s perfect, is it?
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