Sunday, August 19, 2018

Google Keep tags limit

My Google Keep note for a Guardian piece hits my limit for tags, but not a per note tag, rather, a limit in available tags.

The limit would not affect most writers perhaps, but my interests are, er, expansive, polyglot, and might seem problematic to most focussed persons.

As a poet, i may yet try to capture the ___ person's view of someone like me.

I say "like me" and not "such as me" because i do want to suppose that there are some normal people with my wide interests: genuine polymaths with stable careers.

I rely on Google Keep as both an android app and a PC app (an odd poet, such as myself, has neither a Microsoft Surface nor an Apple iPad.)

If you are like me, your brain is buffetting before another violent stall and then a spin. Hard opposite rudder, ease forward on the control column or stick, should recover, but one day, will spin inverted, spin on your back, spin on your spine, spin supine, G forces to carry yoyr ashes to earth, on this, the one Earth, bound to a common centre, Moon, Terra, librating moon, fearless of Ganymede, moon loved by grandson, grandson beloved.

Will i live to play tag with AJP now that he says, "Gran-papa, no jokes, scary!" And runs to be unseen behind the loveseat sofa couch chesterfield mountains furniture of green, its sparse golden threads so dear to him, his red-violet Orang, its golden hair, wildly unruly polyester filaments and no doubt highly flammable were i my grandfather with Craven A's, my grandmother, her Players tins, MacDonald highland fling tins, plastic sheets on the chesterfield armrests, headrests, heavy yellowing plastic, growing brittle, and then the grey shingle house, gone.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Knowte Pages

Did you know that plain HTML text areas such as those on the Knowte Pages can have there contents saved to SpringPad using the SpringPad browser plugin?

I will not work for a local HTML page on your own machine, but it will take notes from a plain empty HTML such as that at the Knowte set.

I only have three sets of 4 notes linked - if you would like more, send a note.

To test that the pages contain only text HTML and no hidden frames or scripts, use the View Page Source option of your web browser's menu.

If your note is private, be sure it is set that way on SpringPad.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Seduced by kanji


The following mentions of 'seduce' occur in the kanjidic2 entries for the basic jōyō Japanese kanji:
  • 丸, 4E38,  830, round, full (month), perfection, -ship, pills, make round, roll up, curl up, seduce, explain away
  • 慰, 6170, 1008, consolation, amusement, seduce, cheer, make sport of, comfort, console
  • 唆, 5506, 1284, tempt, seduce, instigate, promote
  • 召, 53EC, 1387, seduce, call, send for, wear, put on, ride in, buy, eat, drink, catch (cold)
  • 誘, 8A98, 1870, entice, lead, tempt, invite, ask, call for, seduce, allure
While only the last three are clearly to be tagged as "seduce", the first two seem to tell you something about the culture - especially the second !  He says he stops by to cheer her up and the gossip says otherwise.

You can find all 5 on my plain-HTML no-scripts page at kanji.aule-browser or if you get the lovely and free Hanaminzo font HanaMinA you can see them in that font here.

Because those pages are just plain HTML, you will have to search using CTRL-F in your browser.

note: the hex numbers above are the UCS or UNICODE values and the next digit is an index that is also used in the Curl applet for learning the joyo kanji set.

n.b. personally, I like the alternative order used at http://kanji.aule-browser.com/kanjidic2-joyo-hz-3.html


Thursday, August 20, 2009

Pharo + Swazoo + Magritte with Iliad

If you are new to the Pharo branch of Squeak Smalltalk, you may want to try Iliad as a web framework.

Start by loading in Swazoo and then Magritte into the Monticello package browser by first adding the HTTP repository or by opening the Pharo local package-cache in Monticello and then loading the MCZ files. You will need at least Iliad Core and IliadSwazoo.

To test that all was well I started first with a test against an image with just Swazoo and Magritte by running

SwazooServer demoStart.
" go to http://localhost:8888 "
SwazooServer demoStop.

in a workspace and then

SwazooIliad startOn: 3008.
" goto http://localhost:3008/examples/counters/counter "
SwazooIliad stop .

My task is to create a Curl hierarchy which is an alternative to the XHTML and JSON so as to generate Curl web content instead of HTML. So far, so good ...

(that's of course Curl, the web content language, from curl.com and not the case-inverted homonym "c_U_R_L" from haxx_DOT_se )

Saturday, July 4, 2009

note2tag.com

The Aule Browsers will be able to tie into www.cl1p.net using Curl CSPD.

For now, many Aule have the Notes action button enabled an pointing at cl1p.net

Watch for the wikipedia browser at wp.aule-browser.com to get the first benefits.