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Kung Hei Fat Choy

My only (Chinese) new years resolution is to get a new fucking job. Fuck this place.

Wordpress upgraded

Finally got around to upgrading wordpress to 2.0.2. Due to some security issues, its definitely worth moving to (along with the very funky post editor…nice).

Since I’m on holidays at the moment, I guess I’ll try and spend some time when I can to change to something else besides this default template.  Ditto for Rozie’s site.

Announcing: Digg 2 del.icio.us

OK, so after my post yesterday, I just had to try and do something at it. At the moment I’ll have to forget about exporting my currently dugg links. But, I’m managed to create a basic greasemonkey script to add a “save to del.icio.us” link on digg.com. Requirements are firefox with the greasemonkey plugin installed.

digg2del.icio.us greasemonkey screenshot

It’ll grab the title, description and category (which it’ll use as a tag) for the post and save it to del.icio.us using the del.icio.us api. Its pretty basic right now (this is just an initial release) but I guess I’ll try and make it so when you press the “save to del.icio.us” button, you get a popup, so that you can then change the tags, description, etc.

It works properly on the front pages, but in other sections, it’ll grab some pretty weird stuff for the tags, so precede with caution!

The script can get found and installed from here.

digg and del.icio.us syncing

Just pondering something which doing a quick google for didn’t come up with any results; being able to sync links that I’ve “dugg” on digg.com over to my del.icio.us account.

I’ve got quite a few links dugg now, and quite a few of them I couldn’t be arsed tagging again in del.icio.us. I guess I could export my dugg links using the provided rss feed, but then, how would I know whether I’ve already tagged it on del.icio.us? I guess del.icio.us doesn’t really care, but I’m more concerned about speed. Having to download a stack of links that I might have tagged, then uploading them again might be a bit time consuming.

I guess the ideal situation would be if digg.com just automatically posted to del.icio.us each time you dugg something.

For the time being, perhaps I could extract the dugg links using the rss feed, do some wrangling of the text and then submit the links using the del.icio.us api for posting.

Update: Looks like digg.com can output pretty much all your dugg links using javascript. I lose the date of the digg though, which is something that the rss feed has (although it only seems to allow for 20 posts to be displayed) but I guess that’ll have to be something that’ll have to do without. Atleast I can export all my posts. Also the del.icio.us posting api allows for ignoring of posts that have already been submitted, so that’s a plus as well. I guess I could just have a python/perl/bash/whatever script run as a cron job on a server periodically and have it perhaps only grab the last 10 or so dugg links (better make that a variable).

Update 2:
Dammit, the javascript export and the rss feed doesn’t have the actual link. It has the link to the post on digg.com. *sigh* Perhaps this is going to be a job for greasemonkey?

Turning off del.icio.us posts

I’m turning off my del.icio.us posts for now. Its kind of overtaking my blog and making me lazy (like you haven’t noticed ;-) ) If you want to keep up with what I’m linking over at del.icio.us, there’s the last ten links in the sidebar of my blog, you can check out directly on del.icio.us, or you can add me to your inbox on del.icio.us if you’ve got an account.

links for 2005-09-23

links for 2005-09-20

links for 2005-09-19

links for 2005-09-17

links for 2005-09-15

links for 2005-09-13

links for 2005-09-10

Tonight (9/9/2005)

All that you need to know is:

And don’t forget tomorrow night:

links for 2005-09-06

links for 2005-09-02

links for 2005-08-29

links for 2005-08-26