Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
Stuff that doesn’t fit in any category, or leftover posts from the big category revolution of 2009.
Do you also receive TrafficMagnet spam, or am I the only one? Drop me a line in the comments :-).
By the way, you should check out Madhu’s excellent advice on dealing with spam. Aside from that, I also often recommend getting a SpamCop e-mail address too, even if it isn’t free. That, and get your sysadmin to install SpamAssassin on your mailserver.
The Eatonweb Edit Your Weblog Listing Drive encourages you to add extra information to your weblog listing at the Eatonweb Portal (one of the best available). If you aren’t listed yet, submit your weblog!
Oh, and I hate these “rate me” thingies so much: 
15 minutes later – on second thoughts, the Eatonweb rating thingy isn’t that bad: it is actually a review system instead of a stupidly quantitative way of rating weblogs. If you have been feeling an urge to review this weblog, now would be the perfect time to click on one of the numbers above, and do it!
Radhika now lives in England. Like a fair number of young Indian women, she moved abroad shortly after her wedding.
Her weblog is beautifully written and captivating. Go and spend an hour digging in her past posts, you won’t regret it.
Moz users: if the page appears incomplete as it does to me, just click on the first link in the archives.
Following popular request, one post in English (yes, things have been busy in the French-speaking world lately).
I have a satisfaction-guaranteed-or-get-your-money-back recipe for avoiding the accumulation of dirty dishes in the kitchen sink:
It is important that all members of the household follow these two simple rules.
It really works, promise. In a week from now, you’ll wonder how you ever ended up with piles of smelly dishes that took you a whole hour to scrub through!
(Extra bonus: when washing the dishes, imagine you are doing a favour to the person you love the most, and think about how happy you/he/she will be to walk past an empty sink!)
I wanted to try yesterday, but I started out a bit late in the day. So I did it today.
I got up, spent 10 minutes or so figuring out my rocks for the day, jotted down a few pebbles, and got to work. By the time the evening had come I had studied for three hours and got a whole lot of other things done. And I hadn’t switched on my computer.
Let me know if Pickle Jar Time Management works for you too!
The idea is simple: take a pickle jar (your day), and fill it with rocks. It’s full now, isn’t it? Take a handful of pebbles and add them in too. You might have to shake the jar a little. See how they fit nicely between the rocks? You can fill the jar even more: gravel, sand, water…
Gator, ça vous dit quelque chose? Non? Et Gozilla ou bien AudioGalaxy, alors? Aha.
Si vous connaissez les deux derniers, vous avez probablement sans le savoir installé le premier sur votre ordinateur. Un vilain petit espion qui se charge de vous assommer de publicités, entre autres.
Un article de ZDNet sur le “Spyware” vous en apprendra plus. Et je vous encourage à télécharger AD-Aware pour nettoyer votre machine! (Oui, j’ai pu supprimer près de 80 fichiers et répertoires de la mienne, dont en tous cas cinq ou six versions de Gator.)
[merci Emmanuelle]
Préparez-vous à perdre un bon quart d’heure à vous amuser avec le TouchGraph GoogleBrowser. L’applet Java met un petit moment à charger, mais cela en vaut vraiment la peine.
Entrez l’adresse de votre site – ou du mien si vous n’avez pas d’inspiration. Vous verrez apparaître les sites “avoisinants”, sur lesquels vous pouvez cliquer à leur tour, pour voir leurs voisins, et ainsi de suite. Explorez!
[via Somebaudy]
A recording of an interview I did for the local radio, in French.
[] A recording of an interview I did for the local radio, in French.
Even if you don’t understand French, you might be interested in hearing a recording of this piece about weblogs which aired during the noon news.
My interview starts at five minutes 14 seconds approximately. If you’ve heard my “English voice”, you’ll most certainly notice that my “French voice” is different (it’s quite a bit lower). Anybody with a scientific explanation for this phenomenon is most welcome to share it!
Enregistrement du bref interview que j’ai fait pour la RSR1.
J’ai passé à la radio!
Thème du jour: les weblogs [page de l’émission]. Magnifique démonstration de mon bel accent vaudois 😉 que vous pouvez entendre à partir de la position 5:14.
Vous y entendrez aussi Christian, bien sûr, et surtout Emmanuelle.
Vous vouliez la page des weblogs suisses pour y rajouter le vôtre?
Warning: Grandma, just close your eyes and think of England. Don’t blame me if you go ahead and read it anyway 😉
If you are curious about some colourful inhabitants of cyberspace, you should not miss Jeri’s account of the latest Globalgasm.