Alex Ibrado

Tumblr hack: Author's Notes via Google Docs

This is a very basic HOWTO on retrieving a particular item in a Google Docs spreadsheet from your blog (not necessarily Tumblr), something that I could have used a few days ago. I use this over at my scifaiku site to show author notes for particular posts. *Create a new spreadsheetUse the first row to label the fieldsEnter some dataPublish the spreadsheetGo to More publishing optionsSelect RSS
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Pipin' Not!

Hmmm. It seems the Yahoo! Pipes engine is down. All I'm getting for any pipe (not just mine) is:Pipes encountered a problem while running this pipe: The Pipes engine request failed (-1)I guess success does have its price. ;-)Update 1: It's on and off. Mostly off at this time...Update 2: Looks fine now.
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Pipin' Hot!

I'm obviously a big fan of Google (except for a few things here and there), and there are some projects of theirs, such as GoogleMashups and Jaiku, whose public launches I eagerly await. [ Hey Google, how about some dev accounts, huh? ;-) ] **Meanwhile, I'm not one for thumb-twiddling, so I look around. Thus, I'm on Twitter and Yahoo! Pipes.Yahoo! Pipes is simply fascinating, and I regret that I
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