Lately, my iTunes has been playing radioio Rock almost exclusively lately, but one thing that peeves me is that I don’t seem to see the current song while the stream’s playing. Instead, the radioio site offers a pop-up window that displays the last few songs in the playlist. However, I’m usually somewhere off in another window or a shell and don’t really feel like popping over to a browser and navigating to the playlist just to see what this song is. So, I wrote myself a little mini-scraper script…
Here’s the next installment of the Wish-of-the-Month Club. You can revisit the first part, too, if you’ve missed it. I’d meant to post it within a week of the first part, so apologies all around to anyone who has been tapping a foot waiting for it. Enjoy!
For some time now, my girlfriend and I have been accumulating things we want in wishlists on Amazon.com. Though they have come in handy with relatives at Christmas and on birthdays, neither of us really expects to see a regular flow of gifts from them. For the most part, they’ve just become holding tanks for things we intend to buy for each other or ourselves. On one particular visit, though, the notion of a Wish-of-the-Month club popped into my head.
Where’s the state-of-the-art for feed aggregators, and what’s next? I’m tired of reverse-chronological versus three-pane; I’m tired of copying Usenet and email. What needs to happen next to expand our Info Freako capacity by an order of magnitude or two? The invention of aggregators has opened the door to the first few orders, but I need more.
So, it’s been almost a month since my last post here. I didn’t mean to go directly into radio silence, but I’m almost ready to deliver on that first article I’d promised. I think I may have overdone it a bit, since I was shooting for 2500 words and have landed somewhere around [...]
