PolarLava::Blog

So as part of the fixing the Twitter ate my Blog! problem, I rewrote the script that handles this task to reliable deal with a weeks worth of data.  The problem being, Twitter only gives you the last 20 posts in the RSS feed.  Thus if you twit more that that amount in a week (which is very easy to do), the bulk of them would be missing.  This was a concern from the start, but when I was handling them daily I felt it was unlikely that I would post more than that on a daily basis.  Anyhow, I rewrote it such that it now stores all of the posts for the week until they are posted to the blog.  A simple enough solution.  So the first week it ran well except some of the entries were not in chronological order.  Thus I had to modify it to keep better track of the date and time so I could maintain the order.  Again, a simple fix.  But in sorting this list of data I failed to keep track of the original array key.  Thus the sorting process made a huge mess by posting multiple, multiple copies of each entry.  I believe I've now fixed that and everything should work fine when it runs early on Monday morning.  We shall see.  :)

What could possible be more fun for a kid in 1951 that his own Cancer Lab!

I came across Avoiding Walled Gardens on the Internet yesterday and his comments struck a chord with me.  Not so much for his reasons —although I do agree somewhat with them, but more so that "I don't get it."  I've been getting lots of invites on LinkedIn and I typically accept them if I know you.  But that's all I've ever done on on LinkedIn.  I really don't see a need for it.  Heck, I'm not even sure how I got an account there!  I'm guessing somebody sent me an invite, so I signed up.  Maybe someday I may need a job and it will prove useful.  But for the most part I don't see it really being of any real use to me.  If I need to network for a job there's plenty of people who I speak to regularly that would help me out.  Plus anyone of the countless headhunters that call or email me regularly surely would be happy to help me in my quest…which I'm certainly not up for at this time because I like my job.  Am I missing something here?  I'm quite happy being LinkedOut.