Twitter by Proxy

So, I'm done with twitview. Twitview uses the web server (vollink.com) to pull my twitter data feed. Once pulled, I turn links into links. The twittering view at the right side of this blog now uses twitview, as does the open-social app that I wrote for my iGoogle. I also added twitview to my main homepage. Another advantage of this, is that my twitter feed is now also proxied, so will be visible in places where twitter may become blocked or banned....

13 Jul 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook

I've added Google Apps to my domain. I had already started handing pieces of my domain to Google when I started letting them host my blog. At the same time, I'm starting to take pieces back. More on that later... I started playing with the Open Social API today. Really simple thing -- I realized that I wanted to put some basic, static HTML in a box on both my Facebook page and to my iGoogle page....

12 Jul 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Happy Independence Day

It is, of course, the Fourth day of July. After several years of tension, and many attempts by various colony-side groups to get the British parliament to listen to basic grievances, conflict arose. The Colonists and the British Army started shooting on 19 April 1775 at Lexington - just outside of Boston. On 11 June 1776, more than a year after the war had begun, the delegates to the Continental Congress appointed a committee of five, and they got started on the serious work of making a formal declaration of Independence....

4 Jul 2008 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

SmokeStack Gone : The Video

So, here is the video that I took of the St Paul Smoke Stack falling... Wait for it to load - Action starts during minute 5, so forward to there (half-way point). I haven't had a chance to edit it down.

28 Jun 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink