17th April, 2004

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Filed under: Music, — bsag @ 05:04 PM
Seven Swans

Sometimes it isn’t clear why you choose a new piece of music. When you go into a record shop and pick up a CD by an artist you’ve never heard of before, what makes you give it a listen? I had never heard of Sufjan Stevens before, but something about the album cover intrigued me, and I listened to it in the shop. Even through the one working working channel on the headphones (what do people do to headphones in Virgin?) I could tell that I would love it.

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del.icio.us feed
Filed under: Blogging, — bsag @ 03:04 PM

I had been thinking for a while that I’d like to incorporate some quick links in the sidebar to things that I’ve read and enjoyed, but I was still deciding on the best way to do it. There are some nice WordPress solutions, like markku’s excellent wp-recent-links, but I was feeling exceptionally lazy and thought that there must be another way to do it.

Then I remembered the service which allows you to quickly mark and categorise links, and display them publicly: del.icio.us. It’s really easy to set up an account, and you can see my page here. There’s also an easy method (using a query string) to get a raw HTML fragment containing the last x links in your feed, which you can then include in your blog page.

So, I put a bit of PHP in my sidebar to pull in the last 10 links. You should be able to include HTML files from remote sites using:

include 'http://somesite.com/file.inc';

but it seems that my hosts don’t have the allowurlfopen option enabled, so I had to think of another way to do it.

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