Added a PayPal Donations Link

This is somewhat off topic on this blog, but I spent some time this evening with a friend getting a "donations" button setup at Atheists of Utah. The link will take you to a PayPal page where you can show your support for secularism in Utah. I know it's nothing big really, but I'm still a little bit excited to have done it nonetheless. Now, I just need to get us signed up for the Amazon Associates program.

TiddlyWiki, The Coolest Web App Since Sliced Bread

A friend of mine pointed out TiddlyWiki to me a year or so ago. And, I played with it and immediately was in love with it. It's hard to explain, but it is a javascript based dynamic web page that let's you create Tiddlers. Tiddlers can be blog entries, articles, lists, anything really. It's use of CSS and Javascript make it a web app that feels like a desktop app. Click on a Tiddler and it zooms open. Close it and it zooms shut. Your entire wiki is stored in a single .html file.

The idea is that you can keep your TiddlyWiki on a USB keychain drive and port it with you from computer to computer. The problem I have with that, is that I don't like to take my keychain drive with me everywhere I go. Also, I'm still a Palm PDA addict and I like having my information at my fingertips on a portable computer rather than in a keychain drive that requires a computer to access it. I'm still struggling to find the balance between what I want on my PDA (i.e. the information that is totally personal) and that which I want to put on the web.

However, I recently discovered that there is a plugin for TiddlyWiki that allows you to quickly and easily upload your TiddlyWiki to a webserver. It requires that you are able to run either PHP or Ruby scripts on your server, but once you upload the script file to your server and then install the plugins available at BidiXTW, then you can simply update your wiki on your keychain drive and click upload to publish it to your webspace. This is awesome.

I'll still be trying to determine what info I want in my Palm and what info I want to post on the web, but for those things that I think should go online, I'm going to be using TiddlyWiki.

Now, if someone would just make a Palm conduit that could keep Palm OS Memos synced to a TiddlyWiki file...

One final note. If you don't want to have to keep your TiddlyWiki on a keychain drive, there's a really spiffy new site, TiddlySpot that will let you setup your own hosted TiddlyWiki in about 10 seconds (seriously, that's all it takes).