Relocution

Wow, a pictorial history of mousetraps. Evidently, disappointingly, it wasn’t anything like the Little Nipper that Hamlet had in mind: maybe something more like these “humane” basket type traps.

I was pleased, in my little web digression on the subject, to discover the ongoing online wikified version of Samuel Pepys’ diary, and learn that the great man himself, 346 years ago this very week, “bought two mouse traps of Thomas Pepys”.

The Pepys diary project is ongoing, with entries added on the corresponding date. You can even subscribe to the RSS feed to keep bang up-to-date with latest news 343 years ago!

I managed to submit my first assignment for my MSc E-Learning yesterday. I was spoiled for choice for ways to do it. I had wanted from the outset to do it as a TiddlyWiki, but was a bit nervous about committing to it, until I could be sure it wouldn’t eat what I wrote - so I composed the essay in Google Docs mainly. I transferred it to a TiddlyWiki section by section: I think it looks all right.

One thing I didn’t manage to do in time was follow up my idea to try including citations automatically and dynamically from Del.icio.us and Cite-U-Like, using the copy of RSS2HTML that I’ve got installed here. I haven’t cracked it completely, not well enough to completely meet the citation format requirements, but below is an example of what we can do, using an Inline Frame (Iframe) which links to an instance of RSS2HTML, and dynamically transforms the RSS feeds into HTML

Unfortunately, unlike TiddlyWiki, Wordpress doesn’t seem to have an issue with more than one Iframe in a post, so here are separate links to output examples from Del.icio.us and Cite-U-Like.