You can now title an item. Just put the entire first line of the item in bold, and leave a blank line after it. On the website, it will be rendered about the same, but the title will get used when posting the item to Facebook and as the title when the item shows up in a feed. I've updated the Item Formatting item.
/ajax:getfullitembody/250/250%3A250Deciding which projects to spend my free time on got a little easier today. I just found out, five months late, that Google has a new product that obviates and improves on a project I'd been working on:
On September 20, 2009, I checked in the first change for a project I called "Offsites" Three days later, Google announced "Sidewiki" Five months later (today), I found out about Sidewiki
To be honest, the last real work I did on Offsites was in November, but I was still excited a... <more>
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/ajax:getfullitembody/245/245%3A245DROPOUT RATE BY SCHOOL DISTRICT
The state released new dropout rates Tuesday. Though the statewide rate was 20.1 percent, districts in Santa Clara County generally did better.
Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union: 1.0% Palo Alto Unified: 3.6% Fremont Union High: 5.6% Mountain View-Los Altos Union: 5.9% Milpitas Unified: 5.6% Santa Clara Unified: 12.3% San Jose Unified: 11.3% Morgan Hill Unified: 8.8% Campbell Union High: 17.2% Gilroy Unified: 13.1% East Side Union High: 21.7% County total: 15.3% Statewide: 20.1%
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/ajax:getfullitembody/242/242%3A242PicDoodle: A simple Facebook virus
Probably not the first of its kind, but it sure is annoying. It works like this:
1. When you add the application, it requests permission to see your profile, but then it requests the "photo_upload" extended permission (the dialog requests permission to "Allow Photo Uploads from PicDoodle"). 2. Once you grant it that permission, it silently uploads a small photo (for me it was a 16x16 white image, but for some people, it seems to upload a differe... <more>
If you ever really want to take advantage of the Flash runtime then I would recommend the haXe compiler. It's actually a pretty nice language (not ''quite'' AS3 but close enough). I have some stuff from here.
/ajax:getfullitembody/236/236%3A236A couple weeks ago, I was listening to "Feed The Animals" by Girl Talk (a "mashup" artist), and the names of some of the samples were right at the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't quite get them. What I really wanted was a music player that would show which samples were playing, so I put together http://feedtheanimalssamples.com. I gave myself a week to do it, and amazingly, I almost made that deadline, mostly because a bunch of things really came together nicely that I wasn't expecting. For example:
- I don't know the first thing about cre... <more>
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/ajax:getfullitembody/234/234%3A234New Stuff: Bookmarklet, "Responses to your items" Feed, "Disable Facebook" Feature
A few new features today:
First, a bookmarklet! It lets you post any link to Mush Pot really easily, and doesn't even take you away from the page you're on. You can find it here.
Next, I've added a new feed: the "Responses to items by a user" feed. I think this will be really useful, since it lets you keep track of responses to your posts. To get the link, click your username at the top-right of the screen to go to your user page, then get ... <more>