8 posts tagged “qotd”
When I looked at George's personal QOTD, and then his link to Anil's, there wasn't any clear explanation of how it could be done. So I dissected the URL for their respective questions. The URL for George's looked like this:
http://www.vox.com/compose/?xid=6a00b8ea069777dece00c225228b71604a&rule=qotd&ArcheType=Answer
The link is a compose link so it takes you straight to a "new post" screen. There's three parameters: xid, rule, and ArcheType. Rule and Archetype are "qotd" and "Answer" so these seem like obvious ones to keep. The problem was, there wasn't anything obvious that set the actual text.
Looking at the actual prepopulated text when I clicked on George's qotd, I realized that it was simply copying the exact title he wrote and the "quote" was his blog text. Therefore, it was simply copying the post's details in a certain way based on the rule and archetype. It figures out what post it is from the xid.
So how do you get the xid? You can do it by saving your post and then going to edit it. In the URL, you will see an xid which you can copy. So step by step, creating your own QOTD goes like this:
- Create your QOTD but leave the answer link out. The title is the answer's title, the entry is the quoted question.
- Save it as a draft.
- In the url, you'll see something like http://www.vox.com/compose/posted?asset_id=6a00c2251cf071604a00c22523ba6a8e1d copy the part after "asset_id".
- Go back to your post and now add an answer link. The link should say something like http://www.vox.com/compose/?xid=XXX&rule=qotd&ArcheType=Answer where XXX should be the ID that you just copied in step 3.
- Save and Publish.
If you had a band, what would you call yourselves?
Question submitted by Zoot.
I've often thought that the most mundane things make the best band names. Things like street/road signage, when used as a band name somehow sound a lot deeper. For example:
- No U-Turn
- Lost and Found
- Keep Dogs On Leash
- Congratulations Lee Elementary Class of 97
If you could get someone in your life to start a blog, who would it be and why?
I'd get Jane, Sean , Mark and Gareth to blog. Because they're on my team and looking at this Vox demo on a projector.
What was the highlight of this past weekend?
That's a pretty lame question of the day. I hope there isn't going to be a, "What I Did Last Summer" question in a month or so. It was uncharacteristically warm here in San Francisco, to the point that I couldn't really stay in the apartment. So I spent a chunk of Saturday sitting on my balcony, beer next to me, laptop in front of me with World of Warcraft loaded.
What's the most extreme weather you've been in? A memorable storm? Heat wave? Or something else?
I actually answered this as a comment on Bobby's Vox but may as well put it here. Mine would be a blizzard I had to drive through in Vancouver. It was on the Sea to Sky highway that links Vancouver to Whistler. It's a narrow windy two lane highway (one lane each direction) that drops off vertically into water. I was leaving Whistler late after dinner and there was a blizzard. Visibility was poor but I was following a taxi. Then the taxi decided he didn't want to leave and pulled over. I passed the taxi and became the leader.
What's your favorite drink or cocktail? What's in it?
Question submitted by charm.vox.com
Assuming alcoholic beverages, wine and beer generally give me instant headaches but sometimes I'll go with light beers if I must (Pale Ales, Corona, etc). Most times I stick to the liquor. I have three staples.
- Vodka Redbull (Greygoose if I have a choice)
- 7 and 7 (Seagram 7 and 7Up)
- Maker's Mark on the rocks (first introduced by my friend Jeni in Austin and have since found others in SF that consume it like water)
What's the one CD that will totally remind you of the Summer of 2006?
A little early for that isn't it? Summer's only half over. So far, it's been marked by numerous things musically related:
- Attending Live 101's BFG 2006 featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand and The Strokes (as well as introducing me to a few bands I'd like to hear more of) with Leslie, Elea and Chelly (which, when written like that, sound like a girl band in their own right).
- Constant visits to Club Lamia (now "G3") and singing "You Give Love a Bad Name", "With or Without You", "1979", and cheesy boy band songs.
- Any song from Guitar Hero.
- Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" but much more because George Kelly played such an awesome acoustic rendition of it than its overplayed nature this summer
By this time, I couldn't really see anything past 5ft and while I, too, wanted to pull over, I couldn't even see if there was room to pull over or if I'd end up falling off a cliff. So for about half an hour to an hour, I was leading the convoy, my eyes focusing only on the reflectors on the lane separator because I couldn't see anything else.