Snap Preview Anywhere is here!

I just discovered this this morning. I’m 100% sure it wasn’t there before, but I’m not complaining.

I’m talking about Snap, and WordPress.com have kindly enabled Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA) on my blog! After discovering this plugin, I found an announcement from Matt. I must have lucked out! Cheers!

Edit: Turns out this feature is now available right across the board. Thumbs up to WordPress!

If you hover over a link on this blog for few seconds you should be shown a little preview of the link destination.

I think it’s a pretty neat plugin, and always nice to see where a link might take you, rather than have to interpret a URL.

It also does the same preview for my pictures as they are just links to the picture itself. I don’t know how much I like this, as looks almost like a picture in a picture kind of thing.

However if they were small thumbnails;

SPA could be quite helpful. I could just stop linking the pictures too.

What do you think is best?

Superliminal Advertising

I have a fairly large pile of DVD’s stacked on my desk next to my PC. Presumably I am meant to watch these, although I never seem to have time to get around to them.

Whenever I look at it, I am reminded of that episode of the Simpsons; New Kids on the Blecch, the one where Bart joins the Party Posse.

Lisa: But you have recruiting ads on TV. Why do you need
subliminal messages?
Smash: It’s a three-pronged attack. Subliminal, liminal, and
superliminal.
Lisa: Superliminal?
Smash: I’ll show you. [opens the window, and shouts at Lenny and
Carl, who are standing on the corner] Hey, you! Join the
Navy!
Carl: Uh, yeah, all right.
Lenny: I’m in.

I started a habit a while ago, of visiting JB Hi-Fi and spending all my money on DVDs. I can’t help it.

I’m a sucker.

WordPress ‘Link This’ feature

I just discovered this before when re-organising links I’ve accumulated over time. I have a lot, some I’m not sure are even worth keeping.

Anyway, you can add it as a bookmark to your browser, Firefox in my case, and when you come across something good, click the ‘Link This’ bookmark.

A little window pops up, showing the Blogroll -> Add Link page.

This makes organising bookmarks much easier, so long as I do it as I go.

Change in Theme

After setting up a mirror of my blog on Blogger (they have labels now, and the custom layout ability is very appealing), I decided I wanted to change the layout here to kinda be closer to it.

I guess it’s a little bit closer.

Now I have to decide if I can want to keep both and just keep double posting.  It seems kind of pointless …

Free music to pass the time

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time lately re-installing various operating systems, to hopefully get to the end of my hard disc fiasco. Of course with each iteration of Xubuntu or Fedora Core, there has been quite a bit of time where I have been fiddling around to make sure the system is working without errors.

In these scenarios it is almost impossible for me to concentrate in complete silence; I need some music.

As both Fedora and Ubuntu are supportive of free formats, listening to my MP3’s will have to wait until I am ready to go through the process of installing codecs and such stuff.

I have but one album that I listen to when in the infantile stages of installing these OS’es (sic?);

Little by Little - Harvey Danger.

You know these guys? I don’t know about the rest of the world, but Aussies should remember their song ‘Flagpole Sitta’. Well their latest album (almost a year old now though) is available for a free download from their website.

You can download it in MP3 or OGG Vorbis format, and while I don’t know how free it is (in the purest sense of the word), but they explicitly say download it, share it with your friends. Check it out.

I first came aross the album last November, and have been listening to the album quite a lot. I would like the CD because FLAC sounds much better than the lossy OGG Vorbis. Sadly it’s only just been released in Aus and is quite expensive. At around $37 it’s much more expensive than buying it straight from the artists, $12 plus $10 shipping to Aus. Record labels want to know why their sales are down?

I’m still deciding whether or not to get it (if I lived in the US, I’d be on it like … ), but I just wanted to give a thumbs up for a ballsy decision by the band to try putting their album on the net. Not to mention that I simply think it’s a great album. I just can’t stop listening to it.

Get it.