December 2006
Dec. 24, 2006
Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites. I finally got around to reading this. Fascinating; lots to digest.
Dec. 25, 2006
Del.icio.us fun with automated links. Nat’s documented one of del.icio.us’ least promoted features—the ability to auto-post your links to your weblog once a day.
What is the physically smallest and cheapest laptop capable of running OS X?
Apple rumors are worth approximately nothing, but there’s one going around that a ultra-slim 12“ MacBook Pro is going to be announced at MacWorld Expo some time in the second week of January; might be worth holding on until then to see if there’s any truth to it. There’s certainly a 12” sized hole in the line-up at the moment.
[... 81 words]Serving Multiple Hosts from a Single Django Instance. Includes a patch to pull the urlconf from the request object, where it has been placed by some custom middleware.
Dec. 26, 2006
Sending a postal letter via the internets?
Thanks mycapaciousbottega. It looks like there’s still a business opportunity here because emailbypost.com doesn’t work! I got through the create-your-letter step, but when I hit the “pay” button I got an error from the payment service stating that their user account didn’t exist.
[... 67 words]Login to other services with Technorati. Technorati are now an OpenID provider. I’d much rather they were a consumer though; at the moment you can claim your blog with OpenID but you can’t log in to your Technorati account with an OpenID from elsewhere.
Dec. 27, 2006
How is Google giving me access to this page?
Google have an open URL redirector, so you can craft a link that uses that:
[... 35 words]Dec. 28, 2006
Unobtrusive OpenID. Sam’s implementation passes association data in the URL rather than using sessions. I need to do that here.