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I ran into a weird citation of my blog on an academic paper. Implicit Structure and
Dynamics of Blogspace written by Eytan Adar.
Yet-Another-Google-Api was announced. This one is an ajax api for language detection and translation.
This looks like a pretty neat idea. Not only can I create a comic strip sans talent, I can share it, let people comment, let them edit it - this seems like fun to me. This seems like a lot more fun than "super-poking" someone or sending them a virtual banana for a real dollar.
I finally got around to switching my timbu.org email to be managed by google apps. It’s a much nicer interface than the cPanel front end I use now. Having google manage my email server doesn’t really give me anything new, rather it means that I stop worrying about the size of email on my web server - which has been a problem in the past. At the moment, they don’t really advertise themselves like an ISP, but you could easily cobble together something exactly like a hosting account by putting all their services together.
I still love my ISP and wouldn’t be willing to switch … yet.
I was doing some overdue blog house-keeping today and headed over to the google code page to see what new widgets were available. It saw a link to a chart api. It's pretty good stuff. You can make all the usual charts like pie, bar,scatter and line charts plus venn diagrams.
Here is an example. This image you see below is being generated on the fly, look at the source for yourself if you don't believe me. You can even plug it into your browser and start playing with the parameters for yourself if you are skeptical.
The "code" for that little diagram is amazingly simple.
<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=400x300&chd=s:Chart Preferences&chdl=People Who Blog|People who Like Charts|People who read my blog&chf=efefef&cht=v&chd=t:1000,250,10,50,7,6,10" />It might look like goobledy-gook to you, but if you head over to the documentation it's pretty simple.
It has been a long time since my blog either accepted comments. First it was due to problems with comments spam, then it was an issue with new blog templates. Now I hope all is finally working properly. Feel free to leave a comment if you like.
I think my blog is back on the air!
I still haven't checked out comments, but I am much relieved I can probably publish again.
Jennie pointed me to www.truemomconfessions.com. It's a good read, think postsecret, but shorter and a little more desperate sounding. This website really validates moms on those difficult days. When I know people are having children, as some of my loyal readers are, I'm feel happy for them and I also have to stop myself from saying things like, "You have no idea ofwhat lies ahead ..."
