Archive for February, 2007

Amazon Wish List feed using AJAX

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

As a continuation of explorations into creating AJAX-y widgets for my content, here’s one I whipped up for my Amazon Wish List. It uses the same basic approach as the Netflix Queue widget, except the XML isn’t a true RSS feed, so the processing is slightly different.

My Amazon.com Wish List

This is intentionally kept pretty […]

NetflixRSS Project Created

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

I’ve created a project for the Netflix queue AJAX widget over at Google Code. I did this partly as an excuse to check it out, partly as a way of providing the widget for other people to use, and partly to see if it is a easy and useful way for sharing my code with […]

Netflix Queue via AJAX and RSS

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

This is an attempt to display my Netflix queue (or at least, a few items from it) using AJAX and Netflix’s RSS feed.
#netflixRSSTarget { text-align: left; background-color: #B9090B; border: 1px solid silver; height: 315px; […]

New Blog Software

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

So I’ve had this “blog” for some time now, and it has been basically a thin post manager wrapping plain HTML entry files. I decided it was time to install a bona fide blog application, to make it easier to create an manipulate posts, get comments, and so on.
I chose Wordpress, not from any formal […]

iMix Created and Published

Monday, February 19th, 2007

So as a followup to the previous item, I created an iMix from my computer at home, and published it in the iTunes store. It’s called “Songs for coding,” and contains some songs representative of the type of music I listen to when writing code.
On the positive side of this experience, at least Apple […]

iTunes and Restrictive DRM

Friday, February 16th, 2007

I listen to my music at work. Typically this means I have my iPod connected to my work laptop via a USB cable, and I use iTunes to listen to the music on it. For listening to my own music, this works great.
I also connect to other shared music libraries for variety, and listen […]

Geico Didn’t Save Me Money

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

On Dec 15, 2006, my car was rear-ended on the freeway. There were no injuries, but my car sustained considerable damage. The bumper and muffler were dragging on the ground, both rear quarter panels were crumpled, and the trunk was stuck open.
The guy who hit me had Geico, so I figured I’d be able […]