cerebral odd jobs

Eudora is a great note taking, journal/diary, correspondence, info management, etc. I have the last Windows version (Eudora 7) which also has a built-in X1 file searcher. Eudora doesn’t have the ability to quickly add a reminder, unlike Outlook or other PIMs (personal information managers. Lotus Organizer was also great but no longer published). However, [...]

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//engtech at http://internetducttape.com/ [recommended resource] writing today at Lorelle’s place

Learning About the Web in Plain English
Having a background in computer engineering has been a great boon to me when it comes to blogging. … I have had an edge from being genuinely interested in the technology behind how things work and finding ways to get [...]

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The cool cat at //engtech has created a nifty work-around for edublogses and other WPMU sites to generate a “tag cloud” of most used categories in your blog.
Tag Cloud Generator for Wordpress.com
http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/tag_cloud_generator_for_wordpress/
Here are the results here–
AI/AN   Alaska   blogging blogginess   edublogs.org   in process   organizational culture   public draft   sciencing   [...]

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The cool cat at http://engtech.wordpress.com suggested a way to use the bookmark site, del.icio.us to mark various items from the web which would be of use to the edublogses. For example, his posts on theme reviews and his Auntie-Spam script for Firefox.
Here is what I have run across on the web and started to bookmark, [...]

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//engtech – engtech.wordpress.com/ just created a nifty script for WordPress.com which squeezes all the caught Akismet spam to just a few lines for easy scan for false positives and no need to read the actual cr*p
Discussion is here
lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/ akismet-auntie-spam-firefox-greasemonkey-page-viewing-script/

The script is here
engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/akismet-auntie-spam/
[Title makes more sense if your aunt is an ant]

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//engtech has another greasemonkey script for assisting edubloggers and others. He also gives instructions for modifying the script to fit your own wordpress blog.
“Find Wide Images is a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox. I use it to find images that are too big and would “break” fixed width blog themes.
What it does
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