have to try out image-a-gogo tonight: "image-a-gogo takes a search string and passes it off to the almighty google's image search engine and retrieves all pages of the search results as html. It then parses the results and loads the thumbnails into memory and presents you with a simple interface to the data".
alina is free! and thanks for your efforts, elsvenjo!
juhu! salbader no. 30: "dies ist das erste heft nach dem 11. september (es ist, dies nebenbei, auch das erste heft nach dem 4. oktober, nach dem 2. und 12. november und nach dem 20. dezember)."
gestatten, dr. robert langer-hansel, rechtsanwalt, wien (danke, textlab).
yes, my dear linux geeks, certainly you advantage the common linux dummy (like me) with all your knowledge about this beautiful idea of an operating system... as a matter of fact, by installing any commercial distribution of linux, one possibly commits oneself to evil (even without knowing, yet). i am curious (although not looking forward to) who will buy mandrake one day.
but still this won't stop me from running my own linux server!
derstandard.at has "new navigation". it takes just one look to know that it's even worse than little better. i think i will switch to the text version (and rather get bothered by javascript errors)...
a text-only version of orf on is in progress (via tinytalk).
step by step p3k's hosting history is progressing... so here is mandrake linux on that old 200 mhz pentium ii mmx box!
and i am relieved, everyhing went so much smoother than with that german linux distribution (guess what, even tomcat is working!)
finally, i really can begin with configuring that linux stuff...
some thoughts about these beautiful calendars.
a few weeks ago, a question was posted to the antville project weblog whether the assignment of dates (other than today's) could be implemented in antville.
i think this is a deliberate question and meanwhile (after some wondering) i totally disagree with the reply that such a feature would lead apart from the current weblog roadmap antville is going right now.
truth is, such story clones (they could be called "events") would improve weblogs in a direction many believe to be the knowledge managing future of this kind of publishing systems. and, furthermore, it would give these beautiful calenders a reasonable meaning and real power that could justify their existence.
i assume the programming of such calendars is quite a demanding task. just think about all these leap years and leap year exceptions! certainly i respect the very well-done results on the sites i spotted them.
however, for the purpose of browsing a weblog it is a concept – forgive me for being so harsh – close to non-sense. i think everyone who ever tried to reach beyond one or two months of postings back in to time or forth into the future will agree with me.
it appears to me as if these weblog calenders creepily sneaked into the blogger's world via userland's manila software resp. websites like editthispage.com, just to be adapted quite seam- and thoughtlessly (but nevertheless with all that effort) by well-meaning and innocent web developers into a bunch of similar weblog tools.
but still i never navigate weblogs in time using such a calendar. it never made sense to me. most of the time i directly jump on the frontpage or land somewhere amidst its postings using a link or a search engine (btw, a tool antville needs desperately, meanwhile). i never was right when i tried to remember how long ago this one posting was about yet another suse linux installation desaster, anyway...
they break a fly on the wheel.
nevertheless, i think i could consider a calendar useful to browse events that are close to the current date. events which do not have to be related to any of the current stories, e.g. because they are taking place in the future (like concerts, meetings, birthdays). i noticed that it often does not make any sense to blog an event which is further away than three to five days.
such postings get lost in time and most likely the event will be forgotten (if not recorded somewhere else, with a more appropriate tool). even if i would repeat my announcement three days later it becomes pretty redundant stuff and you have to have the time and still the memory to do it this way (the euroranch.org guys obviously have, btw, and they do it very well imho). personally, i do not feel able to and not really willing to, either.
that being written, i think i will venture the effort of implementing a new type of "event" posting that allows custom date input and hopefully transform the calendar into a more useful tool.
last words: the tv.orf.at calender works pretty well. at least for the current month.
update: i am curious what chris langreiter will invent one day to make time-based navigation usable...