This is the first growing season in our new house. We have quite a bit of gardening space, so my wife and I will be attempting to fill that space with beautiful and edible plants.
In an attempt to keep this information handy for my own reference, I have decided to start a journal. I’ve made it public in the hopes that it someone might care to share some advice or learn from my inevitable mistakes.
The blog is called The Nu Leaf.
I’m working to revive the Seattle PHP users’ group. If you’re interested in PHP and live in the Seattle area, come to our next users’ group meeting at the new Seattle Northgate library on September 12th.
Details can be found on the SEAPHP wiki:
http://seaphp.net/
Add it to your calendar:
After last month’s Google AdWords Policy Reminder, I’ve decided to make it perfectly clear that you are by no means authorized to click my ads. You should avoid them at all costs, even to your own peril.
In case this isn’t clear, I have repurposed my magnetic words script to serve as entertainment on a new site dedicated to reminding you that you should not click my ads. Check it out:
I subscribe to several fast moving feeds. Most of the news in these feeds is of little interest to me, but I’ve remained subscribed just so I can catch the occasional gem.
This problem begged a simple solution, so I’ve created FeedSifter.com. It is a very easy to use service that allows you to monitor any RSS/RDF/Atom feed for multiple different groups of words. FeedSifter automatically determines what sort of feed you are filtering and gives you only the entries that you care about. You can generate as many filtered feeds as you’d like, and you can change your filter at any time by returning to the site.
For example, say you want to filter the FatWallet.com Hot Deals feed for free items, NewEgg.com deals, and drives of all sorts (USB, harddrives, etc). You could use a filter like the following:
Free
NewEgg
GB,drive
Once entered, you are provided with a filtered feed URL and you’re all set.