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Still finding more reasons to play with and learn YQL, and following up from my experiment with random numbers, today I implemented YQL support for lipsum.com, a "Lorem Ipsum" text generator. (more)

I recently discovered a very cool random number generator site appropriately called Random.org. After poking around a bit at the various generators available on the site, I created a custom data table to access these random number services via Yahoo's YQL engine. (more)

Recently @tonyadam was asking about for a way to import Twitter search results into Excel via RSS or CSV. I couldn’t find a suitable method on my slightly out of date Excel 2003, but sent Tony a link explaining how Excel 2007 could get him closer to what he wants. Turns out he was on the Mac anyways, so we... (more)

Today is the last day the Yahoo! 360° service will be online; last chance to download or migrate old blog content over to the new Yahoo! Profiles service. (more)

Tonight the next major version of Yahoo! Messenger (9.0) was released. This release has been a long time in the making, with an extended beta period to help shake out as many bugs as possible. Check out the Messenger blog for the long list of feature improvements. One unique addition is the Pingbox, a Flash widget you can embed on... (more)

Today the new “Programming Q&A” site Stack Overflow launches. With the large tech crowd that follows founders Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) and Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), this new site should have no problem building an audience of its own. According to the About page: Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions,... (more)

Today Yahoo! launched version 2.0 of the Delicious bookmarking service: The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and hopefully more delightful to use and to look at. The major changes touted are improved speed, more powerful search, and a brand new UI design. They are also making “delicious.com” the primary domain (switching from... (more)

As part of my Movable Type 4.1 upgrade project, I noticed that depending on my template settings, republishing the whole site would get extremely slow. Movable Type sometimes catches flak for this because it’s designed to serve static pages, so the "build" time tends to be a bit slower. (A good tradeoff in my opinion.) There is much room for... (more)