Czarism.com - The System of Czar

What is Czarism.com? This is the home page of Derek "Czar" Peterman (aka czarphanguye). Here I'll post entries, quotes, or tutorials regarding stuff. The second focus of this page is to provide a portal view for my activities on other sites. Email me if you wish to network or expand your contacts. ttyl

FriendfeedSeptember 24

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Notes on How to Win Friends and Influence People by CarnegieJuly 29

The follow are some notes I have taken as I read, How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

• Paperback: 304 pages
  
• Publisher: Pocket; Reissue edition (February 15, 1990)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN: 0671723650

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Reading and Learning

• What is the magic requirement to learn this book? Just this: a deep, driving desire to learn, a vigorous determination to increase your ability to deal with people.
• “My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.”
• The rapidity with which we foget is astonishing.

Czar's Top Firefox-3.0 Add-onsJuly 24

This brief blog entry is a list of Czar's preferred add-ons for Firefox-3.*. Add-ons extend Firefox, letting you personalize your browsing experience. Adblock Plus, All-in-One Sidebar, Answers, Cooliris Previews, Fast Dial, Fission, Flickrfox, Google Toolbar, Google Gears, Greasemonkey, Hide Menubar Picnik, Scribefire,

Exporting FriendFeed SubscribersJuly 6

This blog entry will briefly note the steps to export your friendfeed subscribers name and emails. I imagine this will work w/ any social networking site that forwards email addresses (Plurk for example) but today I'm doing friendfeed. Tools used; Thunderbird, VIM, and Gmail.
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In gmail create a filter to tag subscriptions from friendfeed.

Matches: subject:(subscribed to your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed" title="FriendFeed" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink">FriendFeed</a>)
Do this: Apply label "freindfeed"

Then, enable IMAP in gmail and synchronize with thunderbird to read your gmail email messages.

Next, copy the friendfeed folder to your Local Folder creating a duplicate mbox (ready to be edited and saved.) Now, browse to your thunderbird profile directory and open the f

Identi.ca == Twitter Linux OR Twitter TorrentJuly 3

Friend @bitfaker wrote an entry at haochen.wordpress.com regarding the release of identi.ca. This micro-blogging solution claims to be an open source (so one day a decentralized or federation Identi.ca) status tool, aka twitter linux aka twitter torrent. The general idea is; hack it, mod it, tweak it, and see what happens. For more on this project check out Identi.ca, Not Perfect, But Good Enough, friendfeed.com/rooms/identica and catch this author at identi.ca/czar.
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Image via Wikipedia

Identi.ca is similar to existing microblog