Bill Burcham’s memeRocket

I’m tired of creating HTML attribution markup and style by hand every time I drop a Flickr photo into a post. I noticed the Yahoo Shortcut Plugin purports to address this issue. So I ended my procrastination and upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2 and installed the plugin. And here we are (see the image to the left)

Convincing the Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin to fetch the actual image of interest wasn’t as easy as I’d like but it’s clearly doable. I found the image using colrpickr, then navigated to the image and then entered the title of the image in the Yahoo Shortcut Plugin’s “Review This Post” view. The plugin found the image and allowed me to then add the image to my post.

Now wouldn’t it be the bomb if krazydad could integrate his colrpickr directly with the Yahoo thingie and save us all the steps?

As of this morning, Joyomiâ„¢ is available for everyone who’d like a free account.

You’ve heard of a “to do” list, well Joyomiâ„¢ manages your “to get” list. Joyomiâ„¢ highlights overdue stuff and helps you get it back. If you’ve lent a book to a friend, create a Book Omi and you’ll remember to ask for the book back next month. Same idea for CDs and DVDs — money too. There’s a whole set of starter Omis. If you don’t find one that fits your purpose you can create a generic one .

Joyomiâ„¢  doesn’t just track your stuff — it tracks your online conversations too. Use the Joyomiâ„¢ Bookmarklet to create Omi’s for important emails, blog comments and forum posts as well. With Joyomiâ„¢ you don’t have to remember to visit a bunch of sites — all the conversations are consolidated in one clean dashboard.

Once you’ve created an Omi it’s easy to share it with a friend. Nothing like those gentle reminders!

I use Amazon S3 to store backups from EC2. For a while I’ve been thinking I ought to back up some of the S3 data once in a while but I’ve been putting it off. One reason I’ve been procrastinating is because the S3 “file” management tool I’ve been using, S3 Browser, doesn’t support simple things like deleting or downloading folders. You may delete a folder (=”bucket”) only if it’s empty. You may copy the files (=”objects”) in a folder but there is no convenient way to just copy the folder and all its contents at once.

When I saw the S3Fox Firefox extension a while back I was encouraged.  Unfortunately, S3Fox has some critical bugs on the Mac. In particular, folder downloads don’t work — apparently because S3Fox is using backslashes in destination paths a la Windows. You end up with empty folders on your Mac.

I was rescued from a serious bout of the crankies by Nolobe’s Interarchy. This Mac-only file transfer application apparently supports lots of protocol standards and lots of interesting automation features blah-blah-blah but what’s important to me is — it has S3 support!  Woo hoo!  So I downloaded the free 14 day trial and used it to browse my S3 buckets. In a nonce I had downloaded a couple hundred megabytes of precious machine images and subversion snapshots. Now they sit on my disk, ready for their final DVD resting place. I can sleep tonight.

Oh, and Interarchy is a lickable OS X app too. I have no idea yet if I’ll prefer it to Transmit (tall order) but for S3 work from the Mac it looks like a must-have.