Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

Cometa launches This is the project to build a huge nationwide 802.11 network. Very exciting and well covered. Interesting to see notes about it from Reiter’s Wireless Data Web Log :

Hot Blog Trends Spotted on the loose seem to be three big things: RDFWeb: FOAF: the ‘friend of a friend’ vocabulary. Most of the cutting edge folks are implementing this. I read the spec and literally can’t tell what it is for. Changeable blog skins. These mainly take advantage of CSS to flip different photos…

Hosting Unstood (volume ii) BLOGGED —at the-protagonist.net. Another amazing site. This is supposed to be hosted by a 16 year old in the Phillipines. Amazing, not sure I believe it, but pretty amazing. She is another person who does hosting of others via this incredibly complex ISP network: The Protagnist is an 800MB virtual server…

Wherify Wireless – GPS Locator FOR CHILDREN Jon Roberts wanted something for his parents that would help him track his dad, if he had an accident. Here is one for kids that could work. Kind of cool actually. Maybe I should get one for myself Wherify created the world’s first Personal Locator to help you…

o r g a n i c a. Another interesting expression of the web is this crawler. It crawls Weblogs looking for references, so you can see the most linked sites. Another set of things to go through sometime. Sort of like seeing the insides of a good google for weblogs.

Updates to b2mail-rt.php OK, I did some quick hacks to get b2mail to accept any email and this is now running on Geek Fishing. In looking at the code, it is pretty clear that it doesn’t follow the RFC822 standard super well, for instance, if you have multiple mail imbedded, it doesn’t quite work, so…

Dynamic DNS service by Dynu. Dynacenter talks about the need for a Dynamic DNS service. here is one referred to on c|net. Pretty easy to install and use.

Daypop Top 40 Linksl. for the most read blog links. Interesting.

Washington DMV. What a great site for the DMV. Here are notes on how to change the registration address of vehicles: You can change your address by visiting any County Auditor or sub-agent licensing office., or at any Driver Licensing Office. You may also contact the department directly. You will need to provide your name,…

Dave Raggett’s Introduction to CSS. Great short guide to CSS

lgf: real code for unreal humans. lgf-referrers. Here is a PHP script that does the last 50 referrers. Solution Scripts – Top Referrers. Here is the top hit for referrers. Stephen’s Web ~ Referrer System. A first in implementing referrer lists so you can see where folks came from. Will add to tongfamily.com. I also…

XML-RPC Home Page. The source of wonderfulness. This is a set of standards that blogging uses that lets you construc remote procedure calls with XML encoding. Need to learn this.

Blog HOT or NOT. Another cool artifact of blogging. Rating others. There is an entire site devoted to it. I signed up all our sites. FWIW.

The W3C MarkUp Validation Service. How valuable. A free utility from the w3c to see if your html is OK. Interesting to see how well most sites do. Learned a bunch

Andromeda Streaming Jukebox: MP3 server for PHP & ASP

Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY. I keep making html ugly. Here is a beautifier.

Brad Silverberg. Another incredible site. PIR apparently mines information and trys to cross reference people. Does an amazing job with Brad Silverberg of course, but I’m not listed. Interesting idea. Basically it looks at citations in books and other periodicals to build a database of related folks. Cool.

AvaQuest People Mine. Wow interesting to see how Google information can be datamined. First example I’ve seen of a third party build on top of Google. Fun to run a query on your own name. It found Rich Tong and John Ludwig correctly!

Google Weblog. If you can believe it , an entire blog on what’s going on a Google. Again, thanks to blo.gs for helping. Blo.gs is really the google of blogs. Makes me wonder what google is in the world of blogs. There is lots more semantic information than links.

dive into mark. The most watched site on blo.gs. Very beautiful too. I like how he does his site map and also his graphics are very clean. Good thoughts on RSS, etc. as well. His titles for his navigation pane are great too. I must be getting to be more of blogger, I recognize more…

blo.gs: most watched blogs. Pretty useful, here’s a list of the top twenty most “added to your favorites” blogs. You need that pesky fix blo.gs thing to get the nice + sign after them to add them. Next step is to use blogrolling to add them dynamically to the site.

phil ringnalda dot com: blo.gs microtools. This is one of those favorites in the sky. Some cool tools here, although the blo.gs site doesn’t actually have an add link to favorite interface for some reason.

tb-standalone – Standalone TrackBack Just what I need to get blogger version of tongfamily.com to understand trackbacks purposes: 1) it allows non-Movable Type users to use TrackBack with the tool of their choice, provided they meet the installation requirements; 2) it serves as a reference point to aid developers in implementing TrackBack in their own…