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Three Things TODO After Vacation


Gah! There's way too much to do, and so little time. All I can do at the moment is document what I need to get done before vacation. And even then, I was torn between documenting it here, or at my new experimental Habari blog at david.dlma.com. What am I going to do with that blog? (I treat it like some people treat their Moleskines. It's too special to write on. That domain name is the most me, so I've been protecting it.)

Anyway, in no particular order, here's what I want to get done:

  • Customize Twitter Friends Feed: I need to customize my twitter friends feed so that it won't spam my feed reader with @replies I don't care about. I need to set my preferences on a per-twitterer basis. I really enjoy all @replies from some of my friends, but not all.  Maybe I'll break down and find an app that already has the feature, but I prefer having just one place aggregate all the feed activity I'm interested in. [Edit: Biz is going to do this himself!]
  • Make a Dictionary Popup: I loved the DQSD mwd popup definition result. But merriam-webster.com has a history of changing the layout of their page so that maintaining the mwd.xml search became onerous. It's time to replace that popup definition with one from aonaware. Here's the API call I'm most interested in: DefineInDict, with "gcide" for the dictId. [Edit: Completed!]
  • iTunes library rsync with OpenTape: As originally hinted.

Comments

 zannah on Apr 16th 2009 at 11:19 PM
I totally have domains like that (too "special" to do anything with). Some of which I've had for so long I should probably just get over it already and either do something or let them go.

 dblume on Apr 16th 2009 at 11:32 PM
One of your domains came to mind as I struggled with putting an engine at david.dlma.com. I like that you can identify with some of these weird creative inhibitions! How would I explain this to normal people?

 zannah on May 1st 2009 at 11:50 PM
:D We're a special sort, I guess! I have similar issues with blank books... I may just be neurotic. ;)