Prolific Programmer on the Internets!

I have a tendency to hit "A" often when I'm reading weblogs. Unfortunately, Google has this key assigned to Mark all items read and there is no undo function. The solution I've come up with is simple. Using Greasemonkey, I'll merely assign the keycode to a no-op. Code to do so is after the flip.

Now, I have a question for me readers. Ok so here's the deal. As you will see, I've set the script to have an affect on the urls within the directory "reader" under Google's domain. But, I'd like to have it effect only on the right frame. So, any idea how to do this? Many thanks!

// ==UserScript==                                                               
// @name Disable Mark all as Read                                               
// @namespace hasan.diwan@gmail.com                                             
// @description Disables the "A" shortcut in Google Reader                                           
// @include http://*.google.com/reader/*                                          
// ==/UserScript==                                                              
                                                                                
window.addEventListener("keydown"),function(e) {                                
    if (e.keyCode == 65) return;                                                
}, false);                                                                     

Lifehacker reveals an interesting about:config tweak to disable the firefox popup blocker completely. The dom.popup_maximum configuration nod defaults to 20, but can be reset to a higher value. If this were more granular, it would be great, perhaps on a per-url basis?

Lifehacker announces a new version of the del.icio.us browser, cocoalicious. I use del.icio.us for storing bookmarks, along with Google Reader's shared items. In any case, I'd like to synchronise the two. I can easily add to del.icio.us and retrieve them from Google. Now to synchronise the two use the code below...

#!/usr/bin/env python
import feedparser
import urllib2
import logging; logging.basicConfig()
class bookmarksync(object):
    def __init__(self, password, user = 'hdiwan', feedurl = 'http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/08730762945348639336/state/com.google/broadcast'):
        feed = feedparser.parse(feed)
        self.username = user
        self.password = password
        for x in feed.entries:
            self,add(x.permalink)

    def add(self, bookmark):
        posturl = 'https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add?'
        import urlparse
        parsed = urlparse.urlparse(posturl)
        posturl = "%s://%s:%s@%s/%s?href=%s&description=Added+from+Google+Reader&replace=yes" % (parsed[0], self.username, self.password, parsed[1], parsed[2], bookmark)
        success = urllib2.urlopen(posturl).read()
        if success == '':
            pass
        else if success == '
              

Remember my fear that Google Reader had been hacked? It turns out Ms Trunk's blog had been hacked and she's blaming a guy. While that is a safe assumption, based on Internet demographics in the US, it is an invalid and irrelevant assumption. Does it really matter that the first computer virus was invented in Pakistan, given that it messed up your boot record? I don't give a rat's arse who's hacking a blog. Ok, we get the point, you're more powerful than we are. Now, may we please have our Internet back? It has been pluralised, after all, so would you hackers bugger off to your own Internet?

I have a bad habit of forwarding and sharing articles on Google Reader and have discovered something interesting. There are loads of adverts at the bottom of the forwarded emails, which are not seen when you compose. Observe the following shared item:

what jobs recession, again?


 
 

Sent to you by Hasan via Google Reader:

 
 


A recession probably won't affect your job market 

via Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk   by Penelope Trunk on 3/13/08

There is a lot of hoop-la over the recession. Or coming recession. Or statistical but maybe-not-really recession. But the truth is that the job market is just fine, especially for the post-Baby-Boomer set.
The health of today’s job market is not so much a function of economic indicators as it is a function of demographic trends  . There is a huge shortage of employees  . Baby Boomers are retiring and Generation X and Y are less able to replace the Baby Boomers than had been anticipated; employers receive fewer hours of work per person from post-Boomers because of their focus on   family (Generation X) and entrepreneurship   (Generation Y). Due to these factors, the employee shortage is increasing, and only a knock-down-drag-out recession will change this sunshine outlook for employees.
Deloitte says that employees will be in high demand for the next decade, and that Deloitte’s growth strategy requires that they continue to recruit just as heavily now as they were before talk of a recession. And Forbes reporter Tara Weiss finds   that other companies are reacting similarly.
Even in areas where the economic downturns are hitting the hardest – like finance, real estate and manufacturing — younger employees are in high demand.
I recently spoke with Ryan Sutton, vice president at the recruiting firm Robert Half  , which specializes in the finance sector. Sutton said, “Demand will continue to be strong. It is so pent up over the years that it’s hard to say whether an economic downturn would really affect a company’s ability to catch up.” Polls   conducted by Robert Half show that most companies will continue to ramp up hiring in finance.
In terms of real estate, Deloitte reports that almost 60% of people working in this market will be retirement age by 2010. And groups like Boston’s Urban Land Young Leaders   see huge potential for careers in this industry, especially in terms of green building. The bottom line in real estate is that the economic problems are about home prices, not jobless claims  : Just because your mortgage is exploding doesn’t mean your career is.
Another example is manufacturing, a sector that is officially in a recession  , but that doesn’t mean there are no jobs. In fact, the industry is very focused on the shortage of workers and has ramped up recruiting   efforts to attract young people via YouTube, MySpace and Facebook. The $70 million Dream It Do It   campaign shows an industry in high-gear hiring mode, unfazed by the fears of recession.
So listen to talk of recession, but don’t let it get you down. There are a few precautions   you can take in case you get laid off or downsized. But really, don’t decrease your expectations for your job just because housing prices are tanking and hedge fund managers are suffering. Many people are not convinced that the job market will be hugely affected by this activity.
Often times we get for ourselves what we expect from ourselves. So during talk of recession keep your chin up, and your expectations for your career up as well. This might just be a great time for your career.

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I don't know who's behind this, but hope the reader team sees it and informs me.

Google Reader lets you share items and tag those you share. So, I've been faithfully tagging items every time I share them. I recently asked myself, to what end? I can't search my shared items by tag, can't splice them to show me a selection, can't get a list of items others have shared with the same tag, can't get a list of most popular tags, or, seemingly, derive any benefit from the careful tagging process I go through. So, would someone, anyone, give me any idea of what benefit it gives anyone to tag items I share?

Remember I was complaining of my shared items disappearing? Well, I wrote myself a script to get them back and it's pasted after the flip.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;                                                      
use strict;
use CGI;                                                                       
use XML::Feed;              
my $feed = XML::Feed->parse(URI->new('http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/08730762945348639336/state/com.google/broadcast'));                         
my $cgi = new CGI;                                                            
print $cgi->header, $cgi->start_html;
print "- <a href="".$_->link."">",$_->title."</a><br/>" foreach $feed->entries;
print $cgi->end_html;

Google Reader has a shared items feature with an associated feed. I'm guessing it's a bug in the javascript, but I'll probably make a typo plugin for it at the weekend. Anyone know what happened? Let me know.