[the] Code Girl

OnlyWire: The Only BookMarklet You’ll Ever Need!

OnlyWire is a service I stumbled upon a few months ago and it does something no other bookmarking service does (that I could find): posts a bookmark to up to *16* different bookmarking sites. If you are like me, and just can’t decide which service to go with, this is a really easy way to make sure all your bookmarking accounts stay in sync. I highly recommend you take a look.

They have 2 bookmarklets you can use: one uses frames, one does not. The first thing I noticed was how their bookmarklet doesnt pay any attention to any text you may have selected when you clicked it. I was using Furl previously, which automatically populates the comments/clipping section with anything you have selected/highlited. I looked at how they accomplished that, and updated my copy of the OnlyWire bookmarklet to add that functionality. I emailed this to them, and of course heard nothing back.

Drag this to your bookmark bar to post links to OnlyWire AND have any selected text populate the comments/clipping section: Post2OnlyWire
NOTE: The ‘Bookmark and Email’ button doesn’t do a thing when you click on it. . I emailed them months ago to let them know this; heard nothing back and it is still broken.

Just an FYI: I have found the “Spurl” support broken as of early May. I sent OnlyWire email about it, but got no response.

Plus for them: they have a REST-based API that lets you easily post bookmarks by fashioning a URL with certain parameters. This allows anyone to create a custom front end to their service, or to add bookmarking functionality to some other app.

They offer no way for the user to change their password within their website. You have to email them. I’m not sending my password over email, thanks.

They have a great service, but get a D for customer service. If my messages somehow ended up in their spam folder, they should at least check their spam folder every now and then to look for legit messages. I have emailed them 4 different times, and only once did I get any response whatsoever. Not ok.

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I decided to stray a little from ‘coding’ related items, to add a few rants from here on out.

I admit it, I am a Grammar Nazi, it’s hard *not* to be one.

I really do feel that poor grammar makes you appear stupid. I cringe when a management-type sends out email with the wrong its/it’s or worse, wrong your/you’re. It is really quite simple:

its - possessive.
it’s - contraction, short for ‘it is’

your - possessive
you’re - contraction, short for ‘you are’

I’ve had a few guys IM me, send me email, or even a message inside a matchbook, that states “your cute”. I appreciate the sentiment, I really do, but I just lost interest in dating you. I want to find you, and tell you that the message got cut off somehow and I need to know “my cute *what*?

Of course no one wants to hear “you know that email you just sent out/post you just made? yeah, it had a flagrant grammatical error that makes you come across as a total dope”. *I* would want to know if I had done something such as this, and would want to know what was incorrect so I could *learn* from it. Apparently I am one of the only people on the entire planet that feels this way. Most everyone else just says “whatever” when i (or someone else) mentions something like this to them.

rant sparked by happening upon this: 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid

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I noticed that my wireless would randomly stop working ever since I upgraded Ubuntu Linux from Breezy to Dapper. syslog showed a lot of:

ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.

I tried installing the latest firmware…and STILL got these errors constantly.

Dapper uses v1.1.1 of the ipw2200 driver, and Breezy used the 1.0.6 version. The kernel was also upgrade from 2.6.12 to 2.6.15. I’m not the only one complaining about this issue, as I found several posts at the Ubuntu forums. Loading the older kernel from the GRUB bootup menu didn’t help (i couldn’t even get the ipw2200 driver to load at all).

I didn’t want to deal with compiling a new or old ipw2200 driver from source merely in the hopes that it would work. I have things TO DO. last weekend, after I had unloaded and reload ipw2200 module at least 5 times within the space of 2 or 3 hours, I gave the #*%& up on it, and ran a long piece of Cat5e from my office to the family room. I’ve been zipping along at 100MBps since then and have not had a single problem since.

You may want to think twice about upgrading from Breezy to Dapper if you have an Intel wireless chipset that uses the ipw2200 driver/module.