Deadpan Sincerity

Adding Reader and Analytics to Google Apps

david miller — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:08:38 +0000

Google Apps for your domain bring you all the functionality of Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar and talk to your own domain. Which, for those of us who like Gmail et al, is a very nice thing to have.

What Google Apps doesn’t give you however, is the integrated google account that gives you access to all their other services like Google Reader and Analytics.

So after a while switching between my shiny new apps account & my plain old google account, I decided to write a little greasemonkey script to add them to Google Apps.

Basically it inserts links to Google Reader and Analytics into the top left navigation of Gmail, Google Docs & Calendar, and redirects the navigation in Google Reader to point to your Apps account rather than the ‘Google Account’ you’re using for Reader & analytics.

You can generate the script for your site by typing the domain in here and then following the link:

e.g. deadpansincerity.com

Alternatively you can take a look at the Source on github, or clone the repo with

git clone git://github.com/davidmiller/apps.expanded.user.git

Hope you find it useful somehow.

Love regards etc

Something’s Burning #4

david miller — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:39:24 +0000

LIKE IT WAS HIS TO

GIVE AWAY

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Google Website Optimizer Timesavers

david miller — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:38:43 +0000

As useful as Google Optimizer is, it also happens to be rather patronising, asking you the same questions over & over :

Which is great the first time you set up an experiment, but really starts to grate after a few dozen.

Thankfully, as long as you are logged in to the right account you can just bookmark your way straight to the create a new experiment page by bookmarking something along the lines of this:

https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/exptsetup?experiment=&account=YOUR_ACCOUNT-NUMBER_HERE

Saving you Three Precious Clicks & Two Pageloads !!!

Love Regards etc

Quote: Karl Popper

david miller — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:15:27 +0000

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them. You may, more especially, give up the attempt to control those things which most people agree to be social evils, such as war; or to mention a smaller but nevertheless important thing, the tyranny of the petty official.

Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies

Paraquotes: Vonnegut

david miller — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:43:09 +0000

There is a tragic flaw with our precious “democracy”, and this is it:

Only lunatics want to be politicians”

List of Surprises: Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

david miller — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:38:46 +0000

October Idyll

I would hope that you are equally enchanted by the imaginary 134th birthday of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.

His revolution, his progress were not ideals, their underbellies were too encroaching for that sort of nonsense.

Man with Spectacles

More of Dobuzhinsky: courtesy of “Olga”

Ken Nordine is Getting Better

david miller — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:30:29 +0000

Nordine for your enjoyment:

It’s a supersordid world out there.

Love regards etc

Something’s Burning #3

david miller — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:14:13 +0000

I’M NOT JUST

PUSHING YOUR BUTTONS

HERE

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Storem

something’s burning #2

david miller — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:58:13 +0000

SOMETHING SO SEDUCTIVE

ABOUT A PLAN

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Stephan Geyer

Tom Waits & the art of conversation

david miller — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:44:59 +0000

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

- Tom Waits

Which is a wonderful thought enough for this time of day, moreover & however take good care of the following video, in which Mr Tom Waits explores issues close to all of us, explaining the meaning of the word/acronym/god PEHDTSCKJMBA for those of you who are yet to become acquainted, in one of the finest press conferences you are likely to see in the next ten minutes:

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