Are you still surprised when you discover a friend on a new social network? As new social media sites spring up its no surprise they target different groups.
If you share common interests you may be lucky to rediscover a distant friendship. This is an experience I enjoyed recently on SoundCloud a specialist social media website.
How valuable is that? A school friend not spoken to since 1974 contacted me and we enjoyed a 36 year catchup that we couldn’t hoped to have done without social media.
I was stunned to see a famous name in his friend list. With awe I called him and said “Is that the real ….. in your friend list”. “Sure is” he replied, “she married my brother a couple of years ago. The marriage didn’t last long but we still get invites to her parties.”
An introduction to your hero maybe just two or three friends away, but you may not be popular if you stalk friends of friends and remember the saying You should never meet your heroes!
Kty is beginning a new website and wanted a PDF handout to demonstrate her work. Still in its infancy stages I have helped her assemble a few of the features of her WordPress website, these include.
Have I done something wrong? I tried in FF, IE and Chrome but this is what I get now when I try change to https:-
It flips right back ignoring my search preferences and even typing it manually makes no difference.
I was using it to debug a local proxy handling SSL requests and it took a while to realise why I could see nothing on 443.
I think I can live with out it but those folks performing searches they do not want their ISP or any of the node-holders in between to see might be upset at this silent change. While we freely give (and trust) Google with our search string the thought our ISP can store it and pass it on to third parties can be a disturbing.
If BT see a lot of people searching for a new broadband provider in a particular area that information could be used to decide on the viability of investing in better equipment. Is that fair?
I don’t know what fair use is but they could use the data in other ways. What if they detect people are not happy with a local supplier, your ISP could use that to bring in a new supplier. The locals then get more options, so that has to be good right?
Sometimes it’s good to stop and think about things we take for granted.
Just spent a few minutes playing with Wordle and created a few “Word Clouds”. Grab any text or website and throw it into the Wordle generator for endless moments of word funart!
It remains a wiki without the extensive features of the growing groupware solutions such as tikiwiki which are amazing feats of engineering, but only serve to complicate something that is supposed to be easy.
wikkawiki produces excellent documentation, fast. Setup accounts for your editors then disable login and you remain in control of who gets to edit.
Styling the wiki can be done through CSS plus a header.php and footer.php file. Click here for an example of one with a modified design.
It includes Geshi by default (for colourised code snippets) and you can wirte PHP directly into a page and it will be evaluated at read time.
Since I replaced XP with Vista and then 7 I have missed the Powertoy Right-Click Resize tool for resizing images and photos. So I was delighted to find the following project on codeplex:
"[Moist] wasn't interested in machinery; he thought of a spanner as something that had another person holding it. It was best to just smile and wait. That was the thing about artificers, they loved explaining. You just had to wait until they reached your level of understanding, even if it meant that they had to lie down." ~Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Ivy has many thousands of people thinking about her and wishing her well right now. Thank you for keeping us up to date Pat.07:13:21 PM July 27, 2010from txt
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If you share common interests you may be lucky to rediscover a distant friendship. This is an experience I enjoyed recently on SoundCloud a specialist social media website.
