Year: 2005

The Mirror Project

I came across an interesting photography project – The Mirror Project. Participants photograph their own reflection in the mirror. Sounds simple? Well, it’s not as simple as it might seem. What they do is that they make regular themes, like on any other photography website. For example, there you’ll find your “signs” gallery. All pictures in that gallery will include the reflection of the photographer as well as some sign. Same goes for other galleries.

These people must be really creative, because I can think of about 2 ways only to photograph my reflection in the mirror…

RSS Reader Market Share

Here is an interesting study with a graph of RSS readers market shares. It is not scientific by any means, but does provide a good insight on the current situation. BlogLines is at the top of the charts with over 50% of the market share. It has some advantages being a web based aggregator as opposed to desktop aggregators, but still it is pretty popular. Read the article for some hints on why the graph shows what it shows.

Linkblogging with del.icio.us

I was thinking about syndicating my del.icio.us bookmarks into the blog, but never implemented it. Today I stumbled upon this post which explains how to syndicate del.icio.us into Movable Types. The Perl script used is a dirty hack. Of course, I had to immidiately correct and improve the situation.

My version of the script uses XML::RSS module for parsing the RSS feed and CGI module for generating the HTML. It also uses del.icio.us tags as a title of the link. Overall, the script is much smaller and cleaner. The results of its work can be seen in the right panel, below archives.

linkblog.pl

RSS Compendium – RSS Resources

RSS Compendium is one of the best websites devoted to RSS that I have seen. In a clean and convenient manner it provides links to everything and anything about RSS – history, feeds, aggregators, validators, etc. If someone is to visit only one site to understand and start using RSS, RSS Compendium is the best candidate for the job.

Things to say when you’re losing a technical argument

Here are 70 things you can say when losing an argument in technical (read: computer) discussion. If you think that all of these are just jokes and cannot happen in the real argument – think again. I have heard a few of these within the last few years. Better even, I have used few of these myself. ;)