Month: January 2004

Friend of a friend (FOAF) and blogging networking

From the Six Apart weblog, Six Log, I’ve discovered a new social networking application for weblog authors called Plink. Well, at least for authors who have a FOAF XML file defined.

I’ve added my profile to their list and so far no one is connected to me, yet. But it can be very interesting to find out who is connected to who as this list grows. So I encourage all of you, who use TypePad or already have FOAF XML file generated by your blogging tool, to add yourself to the Plink list.

Of course the irony here is that this I’ve found this FOAF application via Six Apart’s weblog, whose company name, I think, plays on the phrase, “Six Degrees of Separation”.

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Browser user agent checks

One of my main complains of Safari since its release is that my bank, Citibank, does not work with it. At the beginning, I’ve tried turning on Safari’s debug menu and changed the user agent string to something more ‘normal’ like ‘Windows MSIE 6’. It did not work then and I was under the impression that it is still not working.
Continue reading “Browser user agent checks” →

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Changing Shelf

I’ve just found this great Palm OS launcher, AppShelf, via ClieSource. After trying it out for couple of hours, I’ve paid the very reasonable $12 for it at Handango . This launcher looks much more modernized than my previous launcher, Launcher X. The one really great feature of AppShelf is the calendar/to-do list display on the main screen. This is similar to the “Today” view in PocketPC which is missing as part of Palm OS 5.

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OmniWeb 5 coming soon

So OmniGroup put up a preview page of OmniWeb 5 today. Seems like it will be a great browser, but I am not sure about advertising the ‘tab’ feature when there is no actual ‘tab’ per se. I am especially interested in the ‘Workspaces’ feature as well as the ‘RSS/XML feeds viewing’ feature.

I will have to try it out thoroughly before shelling out the $29.95 asking price. There are some shortcoming in Safari that OminWeb addresses (noticeably Citibank access) but similarly current version of OmniWeb, 4.5, has its own shortcoming too (no tab browsing and auto-fill is not really auto).

With the rumored release of Safari 1.2 around the same timeframe, let’s hope OmniWeb 5 will be a competition to Safari instead of just playing catch up.

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Yes, Minister

One of the Christmas present I got this year (actually last year now, but who’s counting?) is the DVD boxset of the British TV comedy series Yes Minister. Along with the follow on series of Yes, Prime Minister, it is one of the best British comedy series. The humors hold up really well even after 20 years.

Example: one of the early episode is about the introduction of European ID card and how the opponents cried “policed state”. Which is ironic because 20 years later, Britain is once again debating the introduction of the ID card! With the same set of arguments use by both sides!

It is almost like the series writers predicted the future, but really it is just that politics never change.

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