Amazon Wishlist 0.1

Well, I am proud to announce the release of a plugin that I created last week because I was bored! Oh wow, you’re all so lucky! Yes sir! Today is the initial release of the WordPress Amazon Wishlist plugin! This plugin will allow you to display, from your amazon.com wishlist:

  • A small picture of the item you desire
  • The title of this thing you wish to own, with a link to amazon.com’s product page
  • The date you added it to your wish list
  • A link to your wishlist
  • A count of items on your wish list
  • And, if you like lots of stuff, lots of pages of desirable goodies!

Interested in this for your blog? Well, you’re in luck, you can find out more info by viewing the plugin page. From there you can find more info on how to setup the plugin as well on how to troubleshoot common problems with the plugin. Oh, yea, and with that I present to you my wishlist.

Birthday Weekend

Yesterday was my birthday and what a better way to celebrate than to get sun burned on half of your body! Well, no, I can think of better ways, but I did have a blast with those who came out to Golden Gardens. The potluck was way fun and cool and I think that the concept of a potluck equals win. Now, if only my body would appreciate the sun like Jamie’s does, then I’d be set.

The night before, my parents, Jamie, and myself went out to Oceanaire for dinner. Unlike times in the past when I have been there, the food wasn’t that great. I think it was just my meal, because everybody else seemed to enjoy their meal quite a bit. But, I think I’ll be staying away from seafood for a while.

To make up for the bad food from Saturday night, well, not really, this was planned in advance, we went to Daniel’s Broiler down in Leschi Bay. This night the food was much better and I left feeling much better than I did the night before. So, as usual with Daniel’s, the food was great. Like I was saying during the day yesterday… steak and chocolate. And yes, it was amazing.

So, really, that’s my weekend in a nutshell… a really small one at that. But, I forgot to say that Trevor and I, well, mainly Trevor… I read a Maxim, worked on theinfocrew.net on Saturday. We’re just awaiting some comps from Aaron *cough* *cough* to begin the visual aspect of the site and we hope to have it to you sometime next month.

With not that much said about my weekend… here’s to being 23! Hip Hip Hooray!

theinfocrew.net… a Taste

I’ve been really hesitant to post anything about the info crew site that is currently being developed (I thought you’d all like a surprise), but I thought I’d wet the pallet a little bit with this entry.

Below is one of the cool things that the site does to all of our available online information. It is a heatmap of all our top 50 flickr tags. Well, it will be once you all register, right now it’s only a few of us. It is similar to what flickr does overall, but I made one that will only do it for those of us who use the site. Pretty cool if you ask me.

theinfocrew.net heatmap

We’ve also been working on other things, like event planning, rss subscriptions, and extended contact information. But, I don’t want to give too much away. I want to keep some of the cards close to my chest until it initially launches.

It’s Been a Week

To say the least, this week has been busy. This past week at work I’ve spent the majority of my time testing our new build of our app. It’s coming along pretty nice, but I have to play the pessimist and say this, “man, it has a long road a head of it and it is in terrible shape now.” But, really, it’s pretty cool to see it all come together.

In addition to that, almost every one of my nights this week there has been something else that I was doing to occupy my time. It is not that I am complaining about this, well… a little, but I like to just relax. I mean, ask Jamie, she’ll tell you I’m uber lazy.

But, tomorrow I get to paint and then after that I get a day off. I’m sure I’ll code for that not-super-secret-almost-completed-info-crew-website on Sunday, but we’ll have to wait and see. I am thinking that I might since we are sooo close to being done with it. There are only a few things left with it that need to be ironed out. I just hope that those who get to use it, like it.

Lastly, you know when you talk to an old friend, or one you consider a friend, and it’s just really awkward… yea, I don’t like that. I just want to know what’s up and how things are going, but instead it just seems strange. Good thing I’ve let go and don’t expect too much.