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Sorry to Confuse All the Real Widget Makers Out There

People, people! Please don't despair if this silly site of mine came up first for Widget News. Honestly, it is not with the intent of robbing the real widget makers of their spot in the limelight.

As you see this site is a goofy one, an exercise in passive SEO if you will. It has only served as a bit of a playground for me to learn some css techniques and practice a bit of php scripting.

So please, if you were actually looking for anything to do with widgets, as those defined lower down on my homepage, look elsewhere on the web, as this isn't where you'll find them. The entries below this one in Google's search results would be a fair bet. If any are above (and why not? ) those too would probably be better suited, though if you are looking at this Widget News site it may mean it came out first ... by fluke ;) But hey, I've been wrong before LOL!

I know the term "widget" can mean many things. One bona fide site for widgets that I've encountered is www.widget.com and it's UK alter-ego www.widget.co.uk so you may try that one for some more "real" widgets.

Or try this widget blog at www.widgets-blog.com for some actual news and gossip on the kind of widgets you might have been looking for.

That's all, folks, for plugs. This is final. No more requests for plugs for any more widget sites. Sorry. You need to do some real SEO work on your own sites if you feel you need MY widget news site to send you the visitors you think should be yours. Fair is fair.

Ta-ta! :)

( Saturday September 15, 2007, 5:03 pm GMT)

Widget - What's That?

1) In general, widget (pronounced WIH-jit) is a term used to refer to any discrete object, usually of some mechanical nature and relatively small size, when it doesn't have a name, when you can't remember the name, or when you're talking about a class of certain unknown objects in general. (According to Eric Raymond, "legend has it that the original widgets were holders for buggy whips," but this was possibly written tongue-in-cheek.)
2) In computers, a widget is an element of a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays information or provides a specific way for a user to interact with the operating system and application. Widgets include icons, pull-down menus, buttons, selection boxes, progress indicators, on-off checkmarks, scroll bars, windows, window edges (that let you resize the window), toggle buttons, forms, and many other devices for displaying information and for inviting, accepting, and responding to user actions.

In programming, a widget also means the small program that is written in order to describe what a particular widget looks like, how it behaves, and how it interacts in response to user actions. Most operating systems include a set of ready-to-tailor widgets that a programmer can incorporate in an application, specifying how it is to behave. New widgets can be created. The term was apparently applied first in Unix-based operating systems and the X Window System. In object-oriented programming (OOP), each type of widget is defined as a class (or a subclass under a broad generic widget class) and is always associated with a particular window. In the AIX Enhanced X-Window Toolkit, a widget is the fundamental data type.

Most if not all application development languages today, such as Java and Tool Command Language, come with a ready-made library of widgets that a programmer can incorporate and modify. Using Microsoft's Visual Basic, a widget can be implemented as or part of an ActiveX control.

Widget Trivia Weekly

some interesting stuff

Ok, maybe not interesting for you, the visitor, but it is for me the webmaster.

So you're wondering what I'm doing with this site. Simple: nothing at all of any consequence, other than it's an experiment.

I'm building this site bit by bit, refining it, cleaning up css and code and all that as a learning tool for myself. Also it would be interesting to see if anybody actually takes any notice of it, LOL! Any bots looking? Here, intsy-wintsy spider, come to momma!

Before I forget, the original layout (and css) of this page was borrowed from Nomad and colorized by me. I hope you don't mind too much the butchery.

useless stuff? Lorem Ipsum (Cicero's legacy)

Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?

Definitely not useless. But how many people actually read the entire Lorem Ipsum blurb? Is there an end to it? Or is it like a soap opera, with a new installment every day? It is said that the Lorem Ipsum passages are taken from one of Cicero's works de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, cca 45 BC, and have been used in the printing industry at least since the 1500's. That's quite some endurance. Will our web efforts survive even just one decade? Doubtful.

Now if I wanted I could bury subliminal messages here. Or maybe they already are buried. I don't know, I only picked up some of this stuff from this great site dedicted to Lorem Ipsum facts, www.lipsum.com. Haven't tried to make head or tail of it. OK, I admit, my Latin is quite rusty. Well, almost non-existant, in truth. You can actually generate seemingly endless text from this site, making this one superbly useful tool for webmasters.

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

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