Out of Egypt:

"You're like a saint's song to me"

"I will try to sing it pure and easily."

Lyrics from a beautiful (yet odd) song that was playing on WERS while I was driving home today. I stayed in the car to listen to it. I'll leave off naming the artist, so you can have the fun of discovery like I did (though you won't have had the additional fun of trying to decode the song lyrics).

Oh, I am so tired today. Not sure if I'm doing my job well enough. But I keep trying.

One question (since Sarah brought it up): Who here reads my RSS feed on the side? If you do, just leave a comment saying "I do."

Actually, one more question: Does anyone want to know how I get them to post there? If so, just say so in your comment. Thanks. I'd love to see more people using del.icio.us - building a directory of the Web from the bottom up, simply through using it.

I do.

Posted by: Adam Parsons at October 16, 2006 10:06 PM

Well....I am too lazy to spend the time to figure out how to do RSS feeds, but if someone gave detailed instructions on how to do so...I wouldn't object.

Posted by: funke at October 16, 2006 11:44 PM

Maybe I am weird but I'm not really that interested in delicious, for two reasons, one of them shallow and one less so. The shallow reason is that the too-cute name and URL combination annoys me and seems oddly pompous in a way. The less shallow reason is that I don't really see the point of it, if I have something truly cool that I want to share I just link to it in a blog entry anyway. Every time I visit a users delicious site I just think "so this is like a linkblog" and since that's what my blog often is it just seems more personal to do it on my own site.

I'll grant that I've never tried delicious, and maybe it's one of those things that you have to try before you can understand how cool it is but speaking from the outside of it at least I just don't feel drawn to it.

Posted by: nougatmachine at October 17, 2006 12:18 AM

In the split frame, the calendar ends up on top of the picture. This doesn't happen in the single frame. I am finding that the sidebar gets squished all the way down to the bottom of the page in the single frame and I am using a fully maximized firefox browser.

Posted by: funke at October 17, 2006 6:42 PM

Thanks, Sarah. The split frame is supposed to have the calendar on top of the picture. I thought it was cool, but maybe it's a little too odd.

In the single frame, the other variable is your screen resolution. I'm afraid the layout may be buggy at anything under 1024x768 (I designed on a laptop set even higher than that.) I'll fix that sometime; maybe this weekend - too much to do till then.

And I can give you instructions on del.icio.us use/RSS feeds. That may be one of my next posts - I won't say "will" because I've broken too many blogging promises already.

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John, the thing about del.icio.us is it's supposed to share all your bookmarks publicly - under a flat system of tags (which can be combined, excluded, etc. using operators). This is eminently better than any kind of tree directory system (as I think my senior thesis hinted at). It's better than a linkblog because it's pure data - structured, searchable, remixable, and syndicable (through RSS, etc.). It can be used to generate a linkblog, as I do, but that's only one of the possible applications. The benefit of it is that my "Recent Reads" shows all the pages I bookmark, whereas a linkblog would only show a few selected ones. This way, you, my readers, get to see an accurate portrait of what I'm looking at on the web day by day, whether for work or home.

If I were feeling really ambitious, I could start tagging all my del.icio.us entries "work," "home," or "linkblog," so I could show you three separate feeds for the different categories. But for now I think that's a bit overkill.

Posted by: Evan Donovan at October 17, 2006 7:22 PM

No, I like the calendar over the picture...I just didn't know whether you knew it was doing that or not, since it wasn't consistent with the single frame version.

Posted by: funke at October 17, 2006 9:56 PM

Yes, I know. I just can't get that to work in single-frame (at least right now) because it necessitates absolute positioning, which the single-frame doesn't use. (It has a fluid, scalable layout.)

So again, what is your screen resolution?

Posted by: Evan Donovan at October 18, 2006 12:22 AM