Way too much of my time last weekend was spent trying to figure out how to get my Facebook status displayed here on my blog. After several frustrating hours spent googling, I gave up trying to figure out a direct solution, so I’m using an indirect one.
I signed up for the Ping.fm service, which is [...]
Oct
19
2009
Ping.fm to the Rescue!
Filed under: Site News, Social Networking, Wordpress by jess
Oct
18
2009
reCAPTCHAs: Minor Annoyances for a Good Cause
Filed under: teh Intarwebs by jess
I found an interesting article today explaining how the reCAPTCHA system works and how it helps in the effort to digitize books. I think now I might possibly consider all those reCAPTCHAs I come across a bit less of an annoyance.
Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user [...]
Oct
11
2009
Facebook: Give Us a Freakin Status RSS!
Filed under: Rants, Site News, Social Networking by jess
All I want is to be able to display my own Facebook status on my personal website. So I go on a Google search to try to figure out how to do it. There are several Wordpress plugins that claim to do such a thing. Alas, after testing half a dozen of them, none of [...]
Oct
10
2009
As much as I hate to use the same excuse over and over… I’ve been busy.
We moved into the new apartment the first week of September. It doesn’t feel like it’s been over a month already, but it has! I think we finally got the last of the boxes out of the living room / [...]
Ambigram: Esther/Bud
Filed under: Ambigrams by jess
Esther and Bud are Walt’s wonderful parents. The ambigram above was composed November/December 2008 as part of their Christmas gift.
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