Mike Rowehl has just released Vagablog as open-source. Vagablog was one of the blogging apps I covered in my review a while back. This would be a great starting point for anyone interested in creating a more full-featured blogging app for Palm OS devices. (If only there was more time…) I really need to update that review of applications — it’s getting dated quickly.
I’ve been using Yahoo! Local a lot recently for finding local businesses and restaurants. Sending links to friends, however, is a bit painful because the URLs are so long (and tend to break in email clients). To make this a little bit easier, I created a bookmarklet that strips the URL down to just the minimum fields, suitable for sending by email. I’ve confirmed this works with IE 6.0 and Firefox 1.0.4 on Windows, but haven’t had a chance to test on a Mac yet and have heard it works fine with Safari 2.0 / Mac OS X. To install,…
I spent (too much) time this weekend repairing sprinklers. Between the usual breakage over winter and the dog (who loves to chew and eat anything made out of plastic), there was a lot of fixin’ to be done. On one of my numerous http://ugateamunited.com/online/zovirax/ trips to the hardware store, I found the Rain Bird PTC-1 which made cleaning and adjusting all those pop-ups a breeze.
Today Yahoo! released a standard set of guidelines which are mostly common-sense, keep-out-of-trouble recommendations. The top rule I follow is to not discuss anything that isn’t already public, so it’s clearly common-sense sort of stuff. I was surprised there was no mention of asking employees to clearly identify on their blog that they work at Yahoo, but maybe that’s not such a big deal. (Disclaimer: I do work at Yahoo!) Jeremy Zawodny was one of several internal bloggers who provided input and feedback; see his blog for more details and a copy of the policy itself if you’re interested.