Look at the size of that thing (and questions about links posts)

[matgb]

So, it's summer, which means us school employed non-teacher types get time off. And, unexpectedly, this li'l stepdad found out yesterday that stepdaughter is at Dad's all next week so I have a completely free week with no plans (and very little money).

So I'm tidying, and have even managed to clear the office desk to plug the lovely little netbook into the big flatscreen monitor and decent keyboard. This is a Good Thing. Except, I've got very very used to the netbook over 18 months. It's got a 1024*600 display, and I'm used to seeing everything, including webpages, on a screen that size.

From Blogpostpics

This monitor? 1280*1024. That doesn't sound massive, and it's dwarfed by, say, my father's iMac, but I'm so used to small it seem huge to me now. Here's a screenshot of my browser window resized to netbook size within it. See what I mean? Size matters not? Whoever told you that was your enemy ;-)

Anyway, now I've got the desk setup, I want to try and get more work done, more writing done, and hopefully some coding work on DW, this means I'll likely be spending more time procratinating and linking to cool stuff. I know, I've said that before, but, y'know, stranger things have happened. Now, as you probably know, I redid the Delicious Glue linkposter awhileback to make the whole process easy (and therefore likely I'll do it). I can set it to appear at any time whatsoever GMT. andrewducker has his set for 11am GMT, miss_s_b has hers for 9am, mine's currently set for 9pm but I'm not sure that's the best time. Basically, when it runs, it takes all the links I've posted for 24 hours and puts them here as a digest. What time of day suits you best if you like to read them? I ask because some like stuff to amuse when they're supposed to be working, some when they're on a break, some when they're eating breakfast/travelling, others just before they turn in, and I, frankly, don't care.

Poll #7581 Linkspam posts

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

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Posts with multiple links and a bit of comment on them (ie Delicious style posts)

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Are a great source of interesting things
11 (91.7%)

Can be interesting and show more of the person linking
9 (75.0%)

Are normally dull and I skip past them
0 (0.0%)

Are really annoying and I'd like the to die (but will be happy if Mat shows me how to hide them from display)
0 (0.0%)

Cats
5 (41.7%)

Linkspams please me when I see them

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First thing in the morning (ie before 9am)
3 (25.0%)

At some point in the morning so I can read them for 11ses
4 (33.3%)

At lunchtime
4 (33.3%)

Mid afternoon (for the end of the working day)
6 (50.0%)

Early evening to digest after work
5 (41.7%)

Late evening for nighttime entertainment
7 (58.3%)

Ponies
6 (50.0%)

Hey, look, tickboxes for everything. Yup, you're allowed more than one opinion on the same topic, aren't I a good little liberal ;-)

More stuff to follow, likely, unless I got play Goldeneye for a bit. Actually, breakfast would make some sense. I'll go do that.

Comments

[innerbrat]

Look, I don't mind when Linkspam posts come in, as long as you, Jennie and Andrew have them coming in at different times, so I don't get a new set of linkspam posts when I'm still reading the first.

Hey, I have my Delicious set to update Thagomizer directly. I don't know any php at all, but I' willing to learn what I need.
How do I customize my output post?

[matgb]

Um, I don't know? What do you want to actually do, the HTML it outputs is nicely marked up so it can be styled easily, that's all I do.

And yeah, different times of day would be a good thing, it's why I initially picked 9pm, but that doesn't really work for my linflow patterns.

[innerbrat]

Well, it'd be nice to edit the title. The DW/LJ crossposts happen with my default icon, and that could possibly be changed as well. Stuff like that.

'Course, I haven't got around to editing the css on Thagomizer to accommodate it. Another thing to do...

[matgb]

For title editing, you're posting direct from Del to WP, so there's no intermediate step--you could almost certainly run a script on Thagomizer to just edit the title, but I've no idea how to start doing that, probably create a new xmlrpc page that simply takes the input, changes the title and pushes it to where it's supposed to be, Andrew would be a better bet, he actually understands PHP, I just hack it until it works.

Icon can almost certainly be set somewhere, but again, probably need to do it within your crossposter and I've not played with that script for years.

[almostwitty]

Personally, what I'd love the script to do is that if you're linking to an image or YouTube video etc., it just incorporates it into the post itself, instead of being a link away... just like Tumblr or Posterous, in fact... :)

[matgb]

See, I wouldn't want that as a default as I regularly want to just link to a video to back up what I'm saying (my riots post, for example, the vids were there as evidence, not content).

However, I believe someone is working on that as an option, and it could be scripted fairly easily-beyond my ken right now, but I suspect it could be done.