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Tech stuff...
2009-10-13
Having been advised that My Burg was mysteriously busted -- after I thought it was working -- I rewrote part of it today.

My Burg is designed as a research tool. You can pick articles and group them under memes to recall them later. I first wrote it several years ago, had it in beta, awaiting comments, and nobody ever commented. Since then it's been but lightly used.

I had a couple more ideas for it today while working on it and I want to add them in, most notably a comments field for each entry so that you can enter your own notes on whatever idea you may be following, plus a way to drop the text of the articles you've tagged along with your notes to a file you can save and edit in Word or what have you. I've got the comments field added to the table, but I haven't yet added it into the page. It'll show up in a day or two.

The link to add items won't show if you don't have a cookie set, and if you do manage to get the page open it shouldn't save the entry for you. Likewise if you don't have a meme selected it won't save.

You can recall what you've saved by clicking on the My Burg link on the main page. That'll present you with the links you've saved. I'll put a delete function on there as well, so you can dump them when you're tired of them.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Dude! FireFox 3.5.3 is out and wayyy better on resource utilization
Posted by: Frank G   2009-10-13 21:54  

#9  works great in firefox 3.0.14 too. nice job.
Posted by: rammer   2009-10-13 21:46  

#8  works fine in ie8, now trying to set a cookie for firefox.
Posted by: rammer   2009-10-13 21:21  

#7  Let's try to set a cookie then and try this out.
Posted by: rammer   2009-10-13 21:06  

#6  I've got the Surprise Meter mouse pad, CF - but I'd rather get a Sympathy Meter one.

What say you, Fred? :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-10-13 19:40  

#5  There's a Rantburg store too...

Surprise Meter Thong?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-10-13 16:14  

#4  So that's what it's for....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-10-13 16:06  

#3  I've save Mr. Wife a small fortune in the cost of university classes the past few years by hanging out here instead. :-D
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-10-13 15:14  

#2  Ditto what glenmore said. There are some wise people on rantburg and comments I have spent hours looking for for reproof.
Posted by: newc   2009-10-13 13:01  

#1  I find your 'search' function quite helpful along those lines - had not realized there was something else available. Now I need a way to search for or tag interesting or useful comments on various articles (yes, they do exist!) (The power of the search over the tag is that you don't have to realize right away that the topic is something you are going to care about later, after reading some other article or comment.)
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-10-13 07:38  

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