Daily Archives: October 28, 2004

WordPress Plugin: del.icio.us cached

Probably not news to a lot of WordPress folks, but I’ve recently discovered an excellent caching version of a del.icio.us plugin over at w-a-s-a-b-i: del.isio.us cached. It only grabs the del.icio.us feed once every 20 minutes, so as to play nice with their server.

I’ve created a new box in the menu bar at right, and “subscribed” my douglasjohnston/ammt feed straight into it, so as I trip across interesting things on the web, I only have to give it the tag “ammt” and it will appear in the box. (The Firefox del.icio.us extensions –Foxylicious and del.icio.us– are quite handy for doing this with a quick click or two.) Very nice. I’m loving del.icio.us and all the creative uses for it that people are coming up with.

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Free (Paper) Organiser Templates

Not too long ago, when my ailing Palm was proving a little too unstable for my liking, and when I was considering getting back to “life like in the old days” (i.e., before using the computer for everything), I located my nice leather DayRunner organiser that I toted faithfully around ten years ago. As I mentioned in a previous posting, I used to be a DayRunner fanatic, and even went so far as to buy every little knick-knack and add-on that I could. Way back when, spending $20 Cdn for a packet of 25 pieces of paper (the cost of the Project Management forms, for example) wasn’t an issue, and soon my ‘Runner was busting at the seams with all kinds of organisational goodness. Nowadays, money is a bigger issue, as is my distance from any office superstore. Being the proper little Net junkie, I searched online in vain for templates: only some poor Word documents and a bunch of folks hawking print-it-yourself templates for $30 per type. I could easily find the generic contact and calendar refills in WalMart, but the rest were destined to incur real costs. So I fired up Illustrator.

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