blog.dknowles.org

A while back, I posted about a google reader function that I wanted–the ability to seamlessly share things from google reader to my blog. Lazyweb wasn’t much help, so I rolled out a quick-and-dirty greasemonkey script to do it. You can find it here: http://www.dknowles.org/other/google-reader-cross-share.user.js

Right now, it works by clicking on the share icon below a reader entry. I’m not catching keyboard shortcuts, so it requires a physical click. (fine with me, as I’m a keyboard junkie and can’t be bothered with constant naggings about sharing on my blog)

The regular “use-at-own-risk-may-break-at-any-time” disclaimer applies. Ideally, I’d eventually like this to make a greader-styled popup that asks for your blog entry, but that requires more work than I’m willing to put into this. Plus, this works as-is. If there’s interest in this, I can put it in SVN somewhere so people can give back and extend it and stuff.

A seamless google reader / wordpress integration.   

I want to be able to pull up the links I’ve shared in my google reader and write comments about them to post directly into my blog.  Most of the time, I read articles directly in reader so it’s a pain to have to click the links copy them, then paste them here to comment on them. I’m thinking either a greasemonkey script, or maybe a way of making a daily digest.   

Anyone in the lazyweb want to make that happen for me? :) 

24 people who mattered in 2007

A nice list of people who mattered (in the technological world) this year.  There’s a number of people on that list whose work I follow pretty closely, and a few more that I’ve heard of before.  Good stuff.

I’ve come to the conclusion that I hate all blogging software.  It all sucks.  None of it fits my specifications, but I’m too lazy/busy to write my own.  For now I’m settling with WordPress, but I’m not completely satisfied.  I was fairly okay with Movable Type for a while, but I got really frustrated with its admin interface.  It’s really slow.  And I tried to set up dynamic page loading (lets face it, I’m not getting enough traffic here to take down my shared host), but then realized it wanted to use PHP for some ungodly reason even though the rest of the app is written in Perl.  (Yaay consistency!)

I’m hoping I’ll be more satisfied with this WordPress nonsense, but I’m not optimistic.  (Well, as optimistic as one can be about a PHP app)

I wish there was a good blogging solution written in Python.  Then again, python support on shared hosts isn’t all that great.  And likely more work than I’m willing to put forth.

As for the love part of this, OpenID gets my thumbs up.  I’ve been a fan since brad first posted about it way back when. I’ve never done much with it until now, though.  I get a free identity with my livejournal account, but I’m really not a fan of having my old whiney LJ entries be the face of my identity.  So I set up an account with myopenid.com, which seems pretty solid.  And I set up dknowles.org to be a delegate for the identity.  I’m pretty sure I could do the same thing with LJ serving my identity instead, and dknowles.org would show up in comment posts and what not; but I’m mostly over the LJ thing anyway.  I should probably just subscribe my few remaining friends that write there to my google reader.

I’ve been trying to get a grasp on this “blogging” thing since somewhere around 1999 or 2000. You could say I’m an early adopter, I’d say I’m bad at being consistent (or good at quitting). But here’s another try. I’ve had my fun with livejournal over the years, but my friends have all moved on and I figure I should grow up and play with bigger and better toys too.

My goal here is to give some of the random tidbits of useless (or, unlikely, useful) knowledge accumulated in my head back to the wonderful blogosphere community that so often feeds my desire to waste time or solve some weird problem. Common topics ahead include: atlanta, linux, mythtv, the internets, technology, and the occasional bit of politics.

Godspeed, fair readers.