Just coz I think you should be aware and that I’m up and jet-lagged back in SF after a horrendous experience with the worst airline ever (possibly even worse than American Airlines), I thought you should know that MC Chris (mastermind behind Fett’s Vett) is coming to Isotope Comics in Hayes Valley tonight at 8pm to perform a free, all ages gig.
Ok, now to go sleep.
Good news for GTD’ers and folks who like Merlin Mann’s (10+2)*5 productivity hack, shareware app FlexTime now supports Growl.
Richard Giles pointed me to A Single Flower, a campaign started in Australia launched this week with a simple, straight-forward purpose: “…on this day, you display a single flower to show the world that you are concerned about the needless death and violence that is taking place around us.”
Hot on the heals of Jon Hick’s CSS work, the folks at Left Logic have created a cool bookmarklet for revealing microformats in situ…
I took their work one step further, uploaded the script to my server (to prevent malicious activity only) and made it possible for you to run the script on any page of my site, just by clicking the microcontent link in the footer. It’s still a bit buggy, but this work proves ever more the value of marking up your visible data in a way that makes it machine readable.
Bonus link: Sam Sethi points out Dealtagger — another hListing-based search engine!
Just a quick note that Tara and I are off to Europe for 10 days — partaking in BarCampBerlin, some days in Paris and three days of vacation in wine country (our first vacation, like, ever!).
We were also to head to WineCampFrance, but sadly, due to family matters, Gregoire had to cancel — perhaps WineCampGenevaLake will happen instead later on.
So that’s all — my Flickr stream will slow, as will blogging, though I am working on a follow up to my diversity post and things I’ve learned in the past few days (it’s been a very enlightening and on the whole, encouraging, experience).
We’ll still have email, but much less frequently! A bientot!
Well, we finally have a book, thanks to Brian “X2V” Suda. $10 for the downloadable PDF:
Microformats let you share structured information in HTML web pages. Although the information is visible to human readers–as it should be–software can also extract structured information. This Short Cut is a general introduction to the history of microformats and an explanation why these ideas are rocketing to the forefront of technology. It includes information and examples on how to add all of the popular microformats used and consumed today to your documents. Also included is discussion of where the idea behind microformats originated and why the microformats process is so open for everyone to contribute. With millions of instances of microformats on the Web, isn’t it about time to learn what it’s all about?
Drew “All in the Head” McLellan has made an awesome bookmarklet called rel-lint that detects XFN, rel-tag and other microformats:
This is a lint tool (like a non-authoritative validator) for XFN, rel-tag and other microformats that make use of the rel attribute of links. It takes the form of a bookmarklet you can add to your browser and then run against any page. rel-lint will check for known XFN values, flag values it doesn’t recognise (even though they may well be correct) and display the tag values for rel-tagged links.
Lloyd’s finally announced his new role with WordPress-shop Automattic after leaving Flock:
Today is my first day of every day being an Automattic day!
I am Automattic’s Entomology Assistant — their QA person: bug finder and describer, bug gardner, quality advisor, and QA community collaborator.
I am passionate and knowledge about many aspects of software development and support.
I have enjoyed getting familiar with WordPress since first starting with Flock (one of WordPress.com’s first partner) over a year ago, spending more time these last many months, and accelerating my experience these last few weeks. I know I have a special opportunity because I am one of Automattic’s few hires from outside of the core WordPress community.
I have never been so excited to work with each and every member of a team. I am enjoying learning from everyone!
If you’ve been waiting to give Devshop a try, now’s your chance as they exit from private beta into the public testing grounds. Sign ups for the beta are now open.
Factory Joe 