2010
08.28
08.28
Okay. See that “Doing” Widget/plugin to the right? The one that theoretically lists what I’m reading/listening/watching at the moment?
Yes, that one. A few comments.
- It’s there because I find it amusing. It doesn’t update automatically. I have to change it manually. I’m sure there’s a WordPress plugin that COULD update based on what I’m listening to but I haven’t found it yet. Besides which, I usually listen to music using my iPad/iPod/iPhone, not my laptop, so that kind of auto-updating is a magnitude more complex.
- When one of those ‘doing’ things has a link, it points to Amazon. That’s because that’s what the widget supports. Every Amazon item for sale has an id number called an ASIN and the widget uses that. There are drawbacks to that. And not just that I’m NOT an Amazon affiliate so I don’t get any money if someone clicks on one (For all I know, the widget designer DOES get credit.) – it only works with items in the US Amazon store and I don’t feel like hacking it to fix that.
- Even though the widget links point to Amazon, I actually buy music from iTunes (but there’s no similar widget for that, that I can find. And I’m too lazy to fix that.). I do buy the occasional book and other object from Amazon but not ebooks since Amazon doesn’t do ePub.
