Nudge-A-Friend Day

I’m going to call today a Nudge-A-Friend Day. That is I am going to look around the blogs tha I care about and say which ones of those aren’t updated often enough, or haven’t been updated lately. Heck, I’ll just say something about all the blogs that I care about. Those are personal blogs. Those are blogs that are under ‘Persona’ category, linked to from my right sidebar. Those are people I know personally. And those are blogs I read with my first cup of coffee in the morning. Let’s see how they are all doing:

  • My brother is a sporadic blogger. He writes two or three posts a day and then goess silent for three weeks or a month. His last post is from a week ago. Will it be two more weeks before we hear from him again?
  • Alexey Yudichev has been silent for a week as well. (By the way, I’ve just updated your link, so your stats are somewhat gone.)
  • Andrey blogs. Not daily, but often enough. (By the way, I’ve just updated your link too.)
  • Constantinos blogs about once a week or so. Soon we’ll hear from him again. (Your link was updated too, though I liked the old one better.)
  • Dmitry is doing good for a newbie blogger. The change to WordPress.com was for a better. And I like his writing style. Keep it up, man!
  • Lana turned out to be an excellent writer. A pleasent surprise. Rarely she writes though. Pity.
  • Lev hasn’t blogged for nearly two month.
  • Maria, it turns out, blogs using LiveJournal, and not the blog I’ve linked to from here. (I just changed that.). She blogs often. With pictures. And emotions.
  • Michael blogs plenty. He also has a blog with LiveJournal. And he also maintains the Smart Home blog (and in Russian too). Well done, Mike. Keep it up!
  • Nataly is a very busy person. But she still finds time a couple of times a week to write short posts. (By the way, the link was old too. Updated.)
  • Sergey posts pretty often to his LiveJournal.
  • Vladimir writes rarely. Pity. Because whenever he does, it’s interesting and informative.
  • My mother is doing good. She is still learning this thing called blogging. And she is still trying to find her style and posting frequency. But she’s working on it. And she’s doing good. I’m proud of you mom. Keep going!

See, there are a lot of people I care about. I’ve even updated the link to your blog. That’s like a good reason for you to write that one extra post. You know, if you can’t think of something to write about, you can just say something like “Leonid just updated the link to this blog, and that’s why I am writing this.” It’ll get going from there. I promise. Just try it.

And after you done, remember, it’s a Nudge-A-Friend Day. Check your blogroll, and post a complain to your blog about all the people who stopped blogging. United together we can push the Earth blogosphere.

Happy blogging.

Daily del.icio.us bookmarks

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2006-09-05

Google Image Labeler

Yet another (beta) toy from Google – Google Image Labeler. On one hand, there’s nothing special about it. It is simple and has no “catch” to it. On the other hand, it’s real time and is very difficult to stop playing around with. Gladly, I have a lot of experience in switching my focus points, but you be warned. Don’t look at it at the start of your working day…

Google Image Loader

Your own compiler – should you or should you not?

Joel Spolsky shares why they have their own compiler and how long it took them to write it.

Most people don’t realize that writing a compiler like this is only about 2 months work for one talented person who read the Dragon book.

While compilers seem like a thing of the past for many in the industry, I find it not to be so. Recently, I was participating in one project that had to do a lot with web, and web data aggregating. Somehow, we almost ended up writing our own compiler. The problem was tough and there seemed no other way to solve it. Unfortunately, the project took a different path and died later.

Also, looking around with a bit wider open eyes, I’ve realized that there are quite a few people working on compilers now. One of the big companies is, of course, Google. They’ve recently released their tool which takes Java code and compiles it into AJAX-ified HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And although I haven’t tried using it yet, it sounds like a really really really neat solution. Developing in AJAX is a pain. Coverting all the pain into machine’s work seems like a sensible idea.