wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: April, 2006

Google AdSense Widget + hosting updates

I’ve been hooked on Yahoo! Widgets (formery Konfabulator) for a month or so. One particularly handy third-party widget is Jehiah Czebotar’s Google AdSense Widget, which I keep in “heads up” mode and flip over to occasionally to see if I’ve made enough to cover my hosting each month (this month I have–thanks!). Something must have [...]

Duly noted…

Just a few things going on that might be of interest to some of you. First, Paul at onfocus.com has a nice post about using Google Calendar which illustrates some best practices I intend to emulate. I think that Google Calendar the big G one step closer to world domination (it’s still beta, so go [...]

David Sedaris + movie roundup

Okay, I haven’t posted in a while, so here’s the roundup: Gina and I caught David Sedaris on Tuesday night. He played the North Charleston Performing Arts Center (it’s a nice room, though I don’t forgive them for their non-standard coding that makes the navigation system hard to use if you’re using Firefox). The show [...]

del.icio.us gets even better

Everyone’s favorite social bookmarking tool, del.icio.us, has been a handy gadget for a long time. But recently, two new additions have made it even better. You can now import bookmarks from your favorite browser. It supports Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, and “anything that supports the traditional Netscape bookmark file format.” You can now also [...]

Q1 Resolutions Update

Back in January, I mentioned that I had two over-arching goals for the coming year. They were “to read more and record more of my own music.” I actually had three, but I was keeping one of them under wraps. My third goal was to maintain, at least, and perhaps extend the weight loss I’d [...]