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del.icio.us Glue for Me and You

Oh yeah. Remember how I was talking yesterday about having set up Delicious Glue? Well, you guys can use it too, if you want. Because I like looking though other people’s links.

1. First you will need an account at LiveJournal, InsaneJournal or JournalFen.
2. Second, a del.icio.us account. del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool; grab it, grab the Firefox plugin and start bookmarking links.
3. Log into del.icio.us and visit the daily blog posting page in the settings.
4. Click add new thingy.
5. Set out_name and out_pass to your LiveJournal username and password (del.icio.us doesn’t steal your login info and neither do I, just in case you were wondering).
6. Set out_url to http://glue.void-star.net/livejournal (http://glue.void-star.net/insanejournal and http://glue.void-star.net/journalfen work too).
7. out_time is a bit more tricky because the LJ client is a bit stupid and doesn’t understand time zones. It also won’t accept a new post made ‘before’ a post you’ve already made. To make it more complicated, del.icio.us uses GMT while the Glue script uses AEST. So I set out_time to 13 because 1pm GMT is midnight for me, and by making a post at midnight I’m not likely to get time clashes. So out_time controls when a post is made, but the timestamp on the post will be in AEST. Your best bet it probably just to set it to whatever and if you get issues to keep moving the time around until you find something that doesn’t give you problems. I should probably work on making the time thing a bit more configurable… Oh, and if you want to know what the current time in GMT is, just ask Google (and for AEST).
8. Press Submit Query (you can leave the other two options blank; they don’t do anything).
9. Now wait until your post is scheduled. The actual script usually runs about 20 minutes after whatever hour (in GMT) you’ve specified in out_time

And there you have it. Wait until your time rolls around and hopefully you should get something that looks like this. Too easy!

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