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tagclouds

Posted by banane on June 13th, 2008 — in fitness, local color, technology, walk to work

Ah, very cool. Created from here:

Get your NSID from Flickr (view source on a photo page, search for “nsid”)
Paste it into here,
It will generate all of your tags, then it submits it to another site that generates the tagCloud.
Neat!

Scriptaculous & Working Weekends

Posted by banane on May 19th, 2008 — in annaboka, technology

I’m experimenting with various little user interface effects from Scriptaculous (hence the working weekend in the title). Try them out!
Demo Effects Page
I spent about a month getting my drag & drop to work using some code from a German guy, and here I could have used Scriptaculous to do it. I’m not sure it woudl [...]

Humbled by CSS

Posted by banane on April 29th, 2008 — in technology

I’ve been putting in some long hours working on Annaboka (feel free to log in, check it out, give me feedback! anna-at-annaboka.com) and I’ve come full circle on one of my least favorite forms of self-knowledge, realizing you didn’t know what you didn’t know.
I’ve been cruising around with a 1998 version of web engineering, and [...]

Talking to My Splogger

Posted by banane on April 26th, 2008 — in about writing, technology

So, mimickry is the sincerest form of flattery. Thursday, a man in San Diego copied my workblog and called it his own. He called me today (Saturday)- I had wanted him to call me if anything was unclear about my request, essentially to cease and desist use of my writing on his servers.
He explained [...]

Spring Cleaning

Posted by banane on April 21st, 2008 — in north beach, nostalgia, technology

For me, it meant the low tech solution of plain old soap, water, a rag and a lot of elbow grease to wipe down the white (!) railing on my balcony that had collected tons of SF city grime. Then the high tech solution of amping my wi-fi to 5gHz and stop leaching off of [...]

gridswap & mornings

Posted by banane on April 12th, 2008 — in fitness, local color, nostalgia, technology

I’ve been working for a long time on: gridswap. I took this script: drag & drop from the god of all things DHTML and UI: Walter Zorn!
My goal was to get people to be able to pick up and drop books from month to month in a yearly calendar. The complexity is that the example [...]

Sliders

Posted by banane on March 30th, 2008 — in technology

Not the hamburgers. These are the little javascript things that make you feel like you’re mixing a record. I got it in my head that I wanted these for Annaboka, and here, about 4 hours later, I’ve integrated them and used them with a form. I’m disproportionately proud of myself. Not only did I get [...]

Everything’s Backwards

Posted by banane on March 24th, 2008 — in local color, north beach, technology

The drivers here go up Jackson, then let the break go and do a nifty backwards careen at an angle into the garage. The brakeman here is telling me, “Everything seems backwards, doesn’t it.” Because I was walking backwards - giving the legs a break- and their car was going backwards.
I’m almost ready to release [...]

(Not) Writing For Money

Posted by banane on March 23rd, 2008 — in about writing, technology

I met my neighbor at the gym- she’s a professional writer- and we ended up chatting on our way back to North Beach through parks and alleys, until our paths split. She was surprised that my day job didn’t involve writing, since we usually talk about each other’s novels in progress, and she knows [...]

Finishing Things

Posted by banane on March 3rd, 2008 — in about writing, local color, technology

I’m just alerting you to the fact that I am working on finishing my business idea, which is Annaboka (http://www.annaboka.com) anna+book, in Swedish. I am working on the login process, so the minute I iron out the irregularities, I will open it up to whomever is interested. I gave it an allotted time of 2 [...]