Rik's Ramblings

Friday, September 22, 2006

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar ...

I don't think that much is true!

Sheffield in the early '80s? How many cocktail bars were there?! Really?!

Thursday, September 21, 2006

You Rock Santa Clara!

Two thirds of Santa Clara's Electricity comes from renewable sources...
SVP: Green Energy

And it's still cheaper than PG & E!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Writely Assimilation

Yeah!

Got the following email today:
In a few days, we will update your Writely account to use your ...@gmail.com Google Account registration settings.

Great news, finally Writely will be right there in my google account along with email, calendar, sheet. Hey Google, when you going to merge my Blogger account too!

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Proud Father

I'm so proud. Ben sent his first text message this week. Brung a tear to me eye it did :'-)

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Where the Hell is Matt?

Where the hell  is Matt


Jammy Bastard!

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Palm TX Internet Photo Frame ...

Now with Flickr support!

What?
I can now let you download and view your Flickr photostream using a Palm TX (or is it Palm T|X) or Palm Lifedrive.

As you know from the earlier page my photoframe application downloads images from your website overnight, then displays them during the day.

Well now I've added a little adaptor to allow you to get the pictures straight from your Flikr account. Apparently Flickr is a bit popular ... never use it myself, I have my own Slideshow section here at http://sagar.org/

How?
Download the Palm Photoframe application from Rik's Workbench. Then for the part about providing a URL to your Picture list URL us a URL like this;

   http://sagar.org/PalmFlickrFrame/index.php?username=ukdiveboy

Except when you do it, replace ukdiveboy with your own Flickr ID.

If you're having trouble working it out e-mail me and I'll walk you through it ... again!


Credits
I didn't do much. All the credit must be taken by the wonderful people who wrote phpFlickr. I'll publish my 5 line script soon over on the Workbench page.

Caveats
  1. I have not done extensive testing
  2. The download can be slow if you have lots of pictures in your flickr stream, as it downloads the 36 most recent images