Here are 10 things to help you identify whether you associated yourself to Jack Sparrow too closely.

1. A traffic police stopped you for random check. When the office asked for your name, your reply was ‘What do ye say to 3 shillings and we forget the name?‘. And you were actually thinking that the officer will take your coins and called your Mr. Smith.
2. You were caught red-handed lying in front of your girlfriend. Your action was slowly bowing out and said, “Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for…‘”
3. You were at your friend’s house when he offers you whether you want to drink coffee, tea or simply plain water. Sighing and said “Why is the rum always gone …” was your reply.
4. Instead of saying “No”, you will say “I’m disinclined to acquiescence to your interest“. (OK.. this one is actually from Captain Barbossa. But he was once Jack’s first mate, so there is possibility he got it from Jack Sparrow)
5. When someone say thanks to you, your reply is “Sticks and stones, Love. I saved your life and you’ve saved mine. We’re square”
6. When you tried to convince someone, you always ended your sentence with “Savvy?”
7. When your friend asked you about your life principle, your answer is started with, “For me, the only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do…”
8. You were at the computer exhibition. You were totally blown away by the new gadgets. Looking at the gadget, you slowly whispers, “That is interesting …. Very … interesting”
9. You saw someone on the train and you think you known him/her sometime in the past. You break the ice by saying “Excuse me. You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?”
10. You often advises your single friends by starting it with “You need to find yourself a girl mate …”

OK, this post was meant to be a joke for humorous purpose. Please don’t do especially item no 1, no matter how much you love Jack Sparrow. Finally, I would be delighted if you could share silly things you’ve done because of Jack Sparrow 🙂

Have you ever creating offline archive of a website that you like? Which “offline downloader” did you use? Hopefully this post will give you rough idea on how to traverse the website ( and do whatever you want to do with the content ). My idea of traversing a website represented in the following steps:

1. Define the startup page
2. Collect all hyper-links that have not been visited and put it into queue
3. Do something with the content
4. Dequeue a hyper-link and return to step 2
5. Repeat until no more links in the queue.

I have build my own prototype that suit my needs. I might need further tweaks and improvements before releasing it to the public. My main goal would be adding functionality to define characteristics of the page that will be traversed in step 2, and functionality of what you can do with the content of the page. Stay tuned for further updates.

I was reading my RSS Bandit (thanks to Kang Kombor) when I bumped an article about classification of blog posts. I will write down the excerpt here:

1. The SpeedLinker

   This is where you gather links to something interesting in other blogs.

2. The Quoter

   This is when you saw other people saying good things in their blog and you rewrite it in your own blog.

3. The Entertainer

   This is where you entertain your readers by putting hilarious video from Youtube.com

4. The Questioner

   This is where you ask your readers a question to start a discussion. You definitely need readers to begin with 🙂

5. The Updater

   This is where you inform your readers regarding the progress of an ongoing project. It could be report on your own project/blog

6. The Newsreader

   This is where you share interesting news you get from press release or newspaper.

7. The Recycler

   This is where you put your old post as new, with additional update of course

8. The Guest Poster

   This is where you let someone else creating post in your blog.

9. The Announcer

   This is where you announce something to your readers. DOH!

Source

The 9 Essential Posts that Every Blogger Should Know

And I think this post itself will become the example of ‘The Quoter’ type of post.