Lloyd Leung

Whoot! http://ping.fm wml/msn bot works now!!!

I was off to lunch with a few co-works, and Stephen Evans told me about http://ping.fm.  I never heard of it, so I went back to my desk after lunch, and found it.

synopsis: ping.fm updates all status updates for a bunch of places:

• Linkedin (I don’t know where status msgs are placed…)
• facebook
• twitter
• this blog (via plugin)
• various others places… (see ping.fm)

Updates can be sent from a phone, gtalk, http://ping.fm, email, bunch of methods…

so, now I can update one place, and microblog to all the usual spots.  MSN WLM bot doesn’t work…

If you found this, you know what you’re looking for

1. goto http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
2. download puttyGen
3. run it, with ssh-2 RSA
4. click generate
5. leave key passphrase blank.
6. yeah save both the private and public keys for future use.
7. at the top of the app, there’s a “OpenSSH authorized_keys” text window, copy and paste the information into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys as one line.  (You’ll need to shell into the box first).

Start putty

1. enter the ip/host address
2. enter a session name.
3. in the menu tree goto: connection->data enter your auto-login name
4. in the menu tree goto: connection->ssh->auth click browse and select the private key you saved from the above section.
5. in the menu tree goto: session click save
6. test, by clicking open.

Enjoy.

Completely pointless to most people, unless they’re really looking for a review on something…

My throat was sore from since Saturday, and today’s Monday.  I’ve been taking “Cepalcol Sore Throat” to try and numb the soreness that was on the back of my tongue, down my throat, and only to one side… weird.

To the point, cepacol just numbed my tongue, lessened the throat/tongue soreness.

“Ricola Lemon-Mint”, took one and wham… soreness went away… it was soothed.  Maybe I was just already getting better, but Ricola definitely made my throat feel a lot better.

Cepacol:

• Taste: 5/10, wouldn’t eat it as a candy.
• Effectiveness: 7/10, just numbed my tongue, but did give some relief
• Overall: 6/10

Recola:

• Taste: 8/10, I like lemon and mint combination.  I could eat it as a candy… but does have a little medicine taste to it, so that’s where the 2 got knocked off.
• Effectiveness: 10/10, can’t notice the soreness as I’m typing this.
• Overall: 9/10

Disclaimers:

• I’m not a doctor, this is not medical advice.
• I’m not partnered with the manufacturers of Cepacol, or Ricola
• Trademarks below to their respective owners.

Normal hours:

Monday to Friday: 5am – 12am

Saturday to Sunday: 8am – 8pm

Dec 24th, 5am – 6pm

Dec 25th, closed

Dec 31st, 5am – 6pm

Jan 1st, 2008, 8am to 8pm

A few months ago, I saw this method of jumbling words to make words all weird.

“Hree is an exmlape”

Add “pool.ntp.org” to the server list solved my problem.

The quick explanation is that the other servers on the list, are being hammered by millions of other window machines.

Inbox zero is when you have zero messages in your inbox.

You setup a bunch of verbs that you can ever do with emails.

• Delete
• Delegate
• Respond
• Defer
• Do

Pretty simple.
To help with this process…

Mark all your stuff that you filter into folders, as read. If you don’t read it often, unsubscribe to those lists. These lists have search functions, use it.

Why am I keeping a list of emails that are anceint? Archieve it. If it’s absolutely useless, delete it. If I’ve responded to it, archieve it.
Check out this link: http://www.43folders.com/2007/07/25/merlins-inbox-zero-talk/

A good analogy is, if you’re a subway sandwich artist, when you get an order, you don’t sit down, and wait for more orders, you handle them as they come in. Not collect them, and when you feel like it, do them.

Inbox zero requires discipline. Watch the video in the above link, and get a feel for how to handle your inbox disaster.

yesterday was a few hours of frustration.

Make sure your your <form> tag is within the same <td> cell element.  Otherwise it’s not XML compliant.

You can have the form outside the <table> — but not between it, and a <td> element.

Yes, RSS is old news. Everyone and their dog has an rss feed. Okay, maybe not.

However, here’s a super easy way to to monitor RSS feeds.   Thunderbird!!! Yes, that’s old too, I know.  If you don’t have News & Blogs, you’ll have to add an account first.  Now you have an easy way to just drag new feeds over.

1. Find an rss feed, look on the side of this side, and you’ll see an RSS feed.
2. Drag it to your News & Blogs section in thunderbird.

Now I don’t need to open up all my those sites to figure out what if there’s something new. RSS feeds will automatically find out for me, and notify me whenever something is new.Suggestions for RSS use:

1. Monitor a friend’s del.cio.us bookmarks. “Hi SAM! I’m watching you!”
2. Monitor someone’s blog.
3. okay, here’s a real useful one. Monitor new file releases on sourceforge.
4. Forums and Announcements

That’s how I’m using RSS… any other suggestions to use RSS?