The new Facebook: "This Box cannot be added to the Wall tab"

I have written some time ago about the new Facebook interface and two of the tabs that gave me headaches: Wall tab and Boxes tab - the issue, as I've described it then, was that I could not move neither "iRepresent", nor "Honesty box" from the Boxes tab to the Wall tab. (I filed a a bug report at that time, since I thought that to be a bug; however, I have not received a reply since)

Today, after playing a bit inside my Facebook account, i.e. surfing the settings and various options that the profile offers, I accidentally reached the Boxes tab; when I clicked on the little pencil shown in the upper right corner (in both "iRepresent" and "Honesty Box"), I discovered that besides the usual "Remove Box" message, I received an extra message: This Box cannot be added to the Wall tab

So, it was not a bug, it was a feature :D However, I still want to move these 2 boxes to the Wall tab, and I hope that some day they well allow the move.


Update: To the right of all tabs, there is that "+", which, if one clicks on, offers the possibility to add as a separate tab some of one's boxes; so, I took advantage of this option and added the "Honesty Box" as a separate tab; however I also keep it in the "Boxes tab". It's worth to mention that "iRepresent" cannot be added as a separate tab.

To do: add the Digg yellow button

To do: add the Digg yellow button to all my posts on both my personal blog and my computer science related stuff blog.

I did some research on the net (i.e. googling) => I found 2 solutions:

1. The first solution is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you, Jorge!
   
   Of course, there's also Digg's solution but it's not very straightforward to find - I mean the thing that I wanted with the button seems quite difficult to find. I found it on their website only when I knew what I was looking for. However, they don't say exactly how to integrate this with blogger: I have searched quite a bit on digg.com and I'm quite sure that they don't say anywhere on their site the exact specific way to integrate digg with blogger - I mean the exact specific information as I needed and Jorge's blog provided.
   
   The funny thing is that googling digg for the exact integration with blogger only offers results about digged web pages and none from Digg Help.
   



2. The second solution I found is for adding digg buttons to individual posts. I haven't tested that, because I didn't need it and also I don't have access to a server where to store that html file they're creating as a workaround.

Hope this helped anyone trying to add a Digg yellow button on their website!


P.S.: Now guess who's the first one to digg my personal blog! Yes, obviously, it's me!
P.S.2: Yes, yes, I know and I've read that technically they don't accept non-English digged links, but hey! it would be a real shame not to promote those posts I wrote about my traveling in Romania.

The new Facebook

I haven't logged into my Facebook account for quite a long time now: 1 week or a bit more.

Anyway, it seems they have been working to their new interface, which I ignored until now, but today when I logged in I received a message (written by Mark Zuckerberg in person! - ha-ha-ha... come on, it was fun, Mark himself signed it...) asking me whether I would like to try it out. Ok, sure! Let's give it a try! So, I switched to the new interface, and played with it a bit and a bit more...

I find the new interface cleaner and simpler, indeed. It was a bit confusing at first, I admit, but on the other hand I suppose that's natural since everything is somewhere else now. Ok, I kind of like it for now.

1. The "Wall / Info / Photos / Boxes" tabs are a good idea, since it keeps everything simpler. That I definitely like.



2. I must say that I have successfully moved the "Super Wall" and the "Slide FunSpace (formerly Fun Wall)" to "Boxes" tab - yeeey!, I finally placed them somewhere far to bother me less! - in my old profile I placed them at the bottom, so they were far again. "Super Poke" was placed in "Boxes" tab from first - thank you, good choice!



3. I also tried to move from "Boxes" to "Wall" my "I represent" (I very much like to state that I represent Romania) and "Honesty Box" boxes - I couldn't find a way to do that and I supposed it was a bug so I filed a bug report - hmmm...
   
   "
   I have successfully moved "Fun Wall" and "Slide FunSpace" from "Wall" to "Boxes" tab.
   
   I would like to move "I represent" and "Honesty Box" boxes from "Boxes" to the "Wall" tab, but I don't seem to find a way to do that - clicking on the little pencil in to upper right corner of each of these 2 boxes only displays "Remove Box", but not "Move to Wall tab".
   "
   



4. They are still working at it and also ask for feedback - so, people, feedback if you'd like it changed! Anyway, Super Wall is still in progress - let me quote them: "We're currently upgrading Liviu's Super Wall to make it better and faster. Click here to check the latest upgrade status."; ok, I clicked the link, and now let me quote some more: "Please check back in a couple hours and everything should be good." => some half an hour later, everything was ok, indeed.



5. The "Create a Profile Badge" feature is interesting. I might even make one in the future and post it on iacob.info, I don't know.

All in all the new interface seems somewhat better. I will stay with it for the moment. And I hope they provide me a way to move "I Represent" (and optional the "Honesty Box") to the "Wall" tab.

HFS

Situation: from time to time one needs to move big files (~100-800 MB, so you cannot attach them to e-mails) from one computer to another over the Internet. Of course, there are various solutions that can be used: either install a real/complex server, or use ftp, or DC++, or use dedicated websites that allow uploading big files for them to be later downloaded (they offer password protection too), or using the file transfer included in instant messaging clients (in Romania most people use YM, but I use an older version of Trillian Pro and they're not compatible when it comes to file transfer) and so on.

Mircea suggested a lot of time ago that I could use HFS - he has been using it that time for a few file transfers and he was satisfied by it; just as he did, I downloaded it from snapfiles.com

To put it simple, the best thing about HFS is that you simply start it, add what you want to be downloaded/shared, give the link to a friend to download the file and when you're done, you simply close it. (there's no need to install anything; as I've already told you it's a simple solution - and it works; should you need a more complex solution, do install a complex server, like Apache for example)

So, since then I've been using HFS from time to time to transfer files between me and my friends.

Today I was forced to discover an exciting new feature of HFS: you can also use it for uploads. I followed the steps explained here and it worked just fine. (The problem was that at the other end the user had no control over the public IP and only accessed the Internet over NAT. Normally, when the other user needed to transfer a file to me, he/she started its copy of HFS and I downloaded form him/her; however, now the NAT thing didn't allow for that.)

Conclusion: it's a good piece of software. I recommend it.

Graduation Festivity

Yes, I finally and eventually and happily graduated! 28th of June was the big day when our graduation festivity was planned to take place.



Yeeey! It was a tough journey through 5 years of college here at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science from "Politehnica" University (Bucharest).

The university prepared quite a nice festivity for us: well organized and with many good speeches (ok, there were 1 or 2 bad speeches, but maybe I just didn't like them). I liked the festivity overall; it made me feel good. Besides, it took place at Sala Palatului (Palace Hall, which is a location that I very much like) here in Bucharest.

The university borrowed us black robes, black square-shaped hats and scarves; the colors of scarves and balloons that we wore were supposed to represent the college we came from.







I met a great part of my friends from faculty: from former classes I took in faculty (they split our original class at one time according to the direction we wanted to study; I also took some optional classes meanwhile studying my primary direction) and some from high school. Unfortunately I couldn't enjoy the festivity near all my good friends from faculty since some of them were studying for their diploma project abroad and they'll be coming back at the end of July.

The festivity ended with a short concert (50-60 minutes), but we hardly payed any attention: everyone was too busy talking and making pictures. Hey, one usually graduates once, so we must use at best that time!



My favorite picture of all, is the picture representing myself (of course!) happy (of course!) right after the graduation festivity (obviously!).



I still cannot believe it. Technically, I AM ENGINEER now. Oh dear, life is getting serious...