tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302412007-10-25T14:23:02.303-04:00GraemeBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-11906189895635228152007-10-25T14:23:00.000-04:002007-10-25T14:23:02.329-04:00

Google drops the (forex) ball! Google Finance has developed a set of new gadgets for your iGoogle home page, but they don't include support for exchange rates. Drat!

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-1156728431743044122006-08-27T21:21:00.000-04:002006-08-27T21:27:11.783-04:00

Hey! When is Google going to open up the Blogger beta to the existing Blogger users? Not that I suppose it matters to the Googleplex, but MSN Spaces has already gone Web 2.0 and all. For example, what about this excellent space?

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-1155933927387781912006-08-18T16:45:00.000-04:002006-08-18T16:45:28.640-04:00

Hey! I can insert an image:It's Didi the dog!(but I have to manually add carriage returns to flow past the image???? Grrrrrr!!)

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-1155933023109073982006-08-18T16:30:00.000-04:002006-08-18T16:32:28.766-04:00

I quite like Writely, although I wish it had a word count feature so I could measure my progress when I'm writing book reviews for Slashdot. The best thing about Writely is that it is WYSIWYG, with access to the underlying HTML.I quite like Pages, Google's more or less experimental web site hosting service thingie. It's also WYSIWYG, with access to the underlying HTML.I have a Blogger account

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-1154161229980675362006-07-29T04:20:00.000-04:002006-07-29T04:20:30.010-04:00

Home Safety First Aid Tips: " The 3M company puts out a free index-card-sized booklet of first aid tips. The 32-page booklet contains no advertising (beyond the name of the company and the Nexcare division). From it I picked up some detailed info on the behavior appropriate for different fever-levels in adults and children (call doc if baby under 3 months has rectal temp of 100.5 F or more, 102

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-1106700947307055932005-01-25T19:55:00.000-05:002005-01-25T19:55:47.306-05:00

Graeme and Tony at Oleana on G's 50th birthday Originally uploaded by Lagbolt.This is another test of posting pictures to a blog, this time from Flickr.

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-1106532332894228702005-01-23T21:05:00.000-05:002005-01-23T21:10:42.293-05:00

Here's my brother and me at my 50th birthday. That was a few years ago (:-) but we're such good looking guys I'm posting it here to test Picasa / Hello. Posted by Hello

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-1106149971948564532005-01-19T10:50:00.000-05:002005-01-20T13:29:43.950-05:00

This is another test post, to see if My MSN will read my atom feed (which is here).

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-1102084674387458742004-12-03T09:37:00.000-05:002004-12-03T09:37:54.386-05:00

This is a test post -- to see if we can get Haloscan and trackbacks working ...

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-23077662001-02-09T10:20:00.000-05:002001-02-09T10:21:52.596-05:00

And on a lighter note than my previous posting, lo these many months ago, here are a collection of java applets for a puzzle called Rush Hour. A company called Binary Arts makes the real puzzle, in several variations, out of cute plastic pieces. Bill Schubert's version promises three new puzzles each week. It's easy to use because you can drag the cars and trucks in an intuitive way. There's

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-801272000-03-08T16:31:00.000-05:002000-03-09T10:19:12.000-05:00

The US Supreme Court can be a nasty piece of business. The latest is Portuondo v. Agard, where the court (or at least its nasty conservative majority) thought it might be OK for a prosecutor to suggest that a defendant was lying because they had been in the court all along and heard all the previous testimony. Findlaw is another time-waster's paradise, with endless links from one case to

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-380962000-01-17T14:23:00.000-05:002000-01-17T14:23:51.423-05:00

I just stumbled across BIBLIOMANIA, The Network Library, another site with a collection of HTML versions of books and reference materials old enough to be out of copyright. It's a time-waster's paradise, notably including Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, from the "New and Enlarged Edition of 1894", Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition, and Culpeper's The Complete Herbal from

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-324032000-01-05T10:38:00.000-05:002000-01-05T12:48:42.000-05:00

Interesting! Blogger has two quite different interfaces: a pop-up interface which you get to by right-clicking on any web page (always assuming you've sold your soul to Microcruft of course, and you're running IE5); and a more elaborate interface which you get to by logging into to Blogger. The pop-up interface is too bare for me - I prefer to have some sort of tool for adding a new link so I

Graemetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30241.post-302461999-12-30T15:43:00.000-05:001999-12-30T15:43:42.560-05:00

Welcome to the Blogger version of Gramblings! This is my attempt to do a bake-off between weblog builders - just Blogger and GrokSoup so far. You can see the GrokSoup version of Grambings here - it has more content because it was started a little longer ago.

Graeme