Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2006-06-23
I’ve mentioned the professional level of Cyprus television in a very recent post, and here I am, got hit with a deja vu. It’s Friday night, and I am at home, after taking a long walk, trying to avoid all pubs and restaurants. Watching Capital channel, which has a 1984 classic – “Starman” with Jeff Bridges.
About 40 minutes into the film, it suddenly restarts. No advertising, no breaking news. Just starts showing from the very beginning all over again. Instant rewind to the opening credits. It’s been going now for at least 15 minutes…
I am not going to watch it once again. Especially when there are no guarantees that they won’t rewind it again a couple of times.
Off to bed.
There is no much use in studing foreign languages if you hate to listen and have nothing to say.
Via Scripting News I came across this piece of an interview with Bill Gates, who says that he watched pirated content on the Internet.
These are such a big news, that… that… that… I am going to accept bets on where it will first be flamed – Slashdot or Digg. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets!
Update: My appologies. This story was already digged.
I’ve been using Bloglines ping service for some time now and I have to say that it works very well. What’s a ping service? Well, it’s one of those little new technologies that helps you bring audience to your blog posts faster.
Here are the instructions for the lucky users of WordPress (things couldn’t have been easier):
http://www.bloglines.com/ping URL to the ‘Update Services’ field.You’re done. From now, every time you post new entry to your blog, your WordPress will notify Bloglines about it. Bloglines will fetch your RSS feed, parse it, and incorporate your new post into its archives. It will take from a few seconds to a minute or so.
Why is this important? Well, whoever is subscribed to your blog’s feed via Bloglines will immediately notice the update. They won’t have to wait until Bloglines decides that it’s about time to fetch your RSS.
As a result, the period of time between you posting and the world knowing about it will get much shorter. You’ll start getting comments to your entries minutes after you posted, not hours, or days.