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Submitted by chris
Feb 15, 2006

Measure Map bought by Google

Wed, 2006-02-15 08:37

The good news broke this morning, via an e-mail from Jeff Veen and then "an announcement":http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/here-comes-measure-map.html on the official Google blog. "Measure Map":http://measuremap.com is now part of the G empire.

The news is a bit surprising to me, because Measure Map is a very young service, unlike "Urchin.":http://www.urchin.com/ But it's quick, simple, blog centric, and doing many things right. How (or if) it will be combined with Urchin is anybody's guess.

On a side note, according to Measure Map the number of visitors to ichris.ws was an all-time low on Valentine's day. Only 85 unique visitors. The number reflects very well on _you,_ my readers. :)

Valentine's day visitors

Submitted by chris
Feb 8, 2006

delicious:days

Wed, 2006-02-08 21:37

What do you get when you cross good cooks, crisp photographs, and beautiful web design?

You get "delicious:days.":http://www.deliciousdays.com

(valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional)

This is one of my new favorite blogs, and nominee for this year's "bloggies.":http://2006.bloggies.com/

Submitted by chris
Feb 6, 2006

30 Boxes & coComment

Mon, 2006-02-06 08:27

2 beta invitations landed on my inbox this morning:

* "30 Boxes":http://30boxes.com _"will be to calendars what GMail was to Email",_ to quote "Om Malik":http://gigaom.com/2006/01/11/30boxes/
* "coComment":http://www.cocomment.com Track all your comments across the blogosphere

Oh joy.

Submitted by chris
Feb 2, 2006

Meta Theme for Drupal

Thu, 2006-02-02 11:56

"Meta Theme":http://drupal.org/node/43376 is to "Drupal":http://drupal.org what "K2":http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/k2/ is to "WordPress.":http://wordpress.org

This newly released theme by Ken Collins at "MetaSkills.net":http://www.metaskills.net/ showcased what a good theme can do in Drupal, integrating well with many popular modules (The first I have seen) and incorporating many original contributions to the Drupal world, e.g. stylesheet switcher.

I think I can learn a lot from studying this.

Submitted by chris
Feb 2, 2006

2 Upgrades

Thu, 2006-02-02 11:30

*Gaim* 2.0 Beta 1 -> "Beta 2":http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

* more streamlined UI
* faster sign in (for MSN network, anyway)
* Still no MSN personalized status message. :(

*Firefox* 1.5.0 -> "1.5.0.1":http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html

* didn't noticed anythings
* The download size is only 751 kB. (via automatic update) I didn't know they have incremental upgrade! This is cool.
* Official release note lists improved stability, security enhancements, and memory leaks fix as the highlight. This can only be good.

Submitted by chris
Feb 1, 2006

Online Storage Review at TechCrunch

Wed, 2006-02-01 08:24

Around 1999, online storage services like Xdrive were the next big thing. Now they are coming back, riding on the web2.0 wave. TechCrunch "reviewed":http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch?m=581 13 of them. From a quick glance, I think I'll testdrive "Omnidrive,":http://www.omnidrive.com/ "Xdrive,":http://www.xdrive.com/ and "Box.net":http://www.box.net/ sometimes this week.

Submitted by chris
Jan 27, 2006

Theming Drupal Comments

Fri, 2006-01-27 11:53

Drupal "4.7 Beta 4":http://drupal.org/drupal-4.7.0-beta4 was just released, and the "patch":http://drupal.org/node/40755 to make comment block themable is included. This means I should be able to make Drupal's "K2 port":http://ichris.ws/node/968 imitate the original look. (which uses ordered list)

Now, if only there is more than 24 hrs a day.

Submitted by chris
Jan 27, 2006

Colibri

Fri, 2006-01-27 08:37

I've never own a "Mac,":http://www.apple.com/hardware/ thus never tried "quicksilver.":http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ I've heard good things about it, though. "Colibri":http://colibri.leetspeak.org/ is supposed to serve similar needs on a windows box, and I'm lovin' it.

Keyboard rules.

Colibri application launcher

[via downloadsquad]

Submitted by chris
Jan 26, 2006

Remember The Milk

Thu, 2006-01-26 15:00

"RTM":http://www.rememberthemilk.com was already the best online To Do list manager, and they have just made another big leap today with "3 new features:":http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2006/01/now-with-tagging-searching-and-s...

* tagging (finally) and tag cloud
* advance searching (I don't really use search, but it's handy for the odd occasions)
* smart lists, which are smart filters or persistent search, depending on how you look at it.

Obviously, tagging is the biggest addition here. I can now have my tasks reduced to just a few lists and tag them instead. Or may be, it should just be one big list with free tagging. Hmm...

Submitted by chris
Jan 24, 2006

Do you know who I am?

Tue, 2006-01-24 16:26

I think "this guy":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/18/nrob18.xml has been in Thailand too long. (Any longer, he would have been asking _Do you know who my daddy is?_ )

I took this from a US embassy's site, but functions of Defense Attaché should be roughly the same.

Defense Attache....is primarily responsible for representational duties designed to foster positive relations...

It didn't help your job, mate, to go fuck all the 3 entities represented by the colours of the flag.