Category: daveg@dorja

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?

Another year

daveg & black motorola razr

Another year, another birthday. Didn’t really get up to a whole lot yesterday. I’ve been on holidays since last week. Mum and Dad bought me a Motorola RAZR (still trying figure out how to get this thing to speak to Linux) and Rozie bought me a ticket to the RPRSNT design conference.

Had dinner in Epping with Rozie and Mum at Kenny’s Chinese Restaurant. Its been a year or so since we last ate there. The food was nice. We had oxtail in chinese spices and onion, ling fillets in ginger and shallots and spicy salt tofu.

The batter on the tofu was nice with just a little bit of chewiness to it, the oxtail was tender and had nice flavour. The ling was a bit bland, but it was really that kind of dish anyhow. The service was a bit awkard though with three or more waiters wandering around the restuarant looking lost. Once the restuarant got a few more people in there it wasn’t so bad though.

Dangerous Minds: The Aftermath

Last Friday night, Rozie put on her “Dangerous Minds” Trivia night with Popfrenzy, and it was a great success. We got just over 170 people, with Chequers at the Mandarin Club being pretty much packed (can’t pack as many people in when they’re sitting down) and managed to raise just over $1500 for the NSW Cancer Council. Everyone seemed to have a great time (minus a couple of annoying loud mouthed individuals who insisted on yelling out answers) and Maynard was on the ball as well. Seems like people enjoyed it enough that they were already asking when the next one is. I guess that decision will be up to Rozie to decide.

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 2005-09-15

links for 2005-09-13

links for 2005-09-10

links for 2005-09-06

links for 2005-08-29