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Free writing wisdom widget

21 May 2008


While I was writing my novel 'University of Death', I read quite a few books about writing and kept an eye out for inspiring quotes from famous authors and writers. They include Stephen King, Shakespeare, Truman Capote, Peter Cook and Christopher Isherwood among others.

I've packaged up a selection of my favourites in this free writing quotes widget, which you can customise and incorporate in your own website or blog. It's free to use. The only condition is that you keep the link back to this site and don't modify the code.

When I get time, I'll write a short piece about the simple text compression routine I wrote for this. There's a lot of stuff out there about compressing Javascript, but I couldn't find anything useful about compressing text and decompressing it using Javascript. I managed to cut the total size of my script by about 12% without too much trouble, and might have been able to compress further if I'd worked on it longer.

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Hi Sean,

great idea and if I had any technical ability at all I am sure it would be a great tool. You should maybe get it added in to the iGoogle widgets as they already have a general quotes widget which I use and is pretty good but I like to specific focus of yours.
 
Thanks Paul. I'll take a look at the iGoogle widgets, and possibly Facebook apps too, although Facebook is I expect are more complex than I want to go. This widget seems like a nice easy way to add some interactivity and personality to blogs. I'll write that post I've been promising on the text compression it uses when I get a moment.
 
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