So, my wife has been getting into blogging. Her primary blog is "Naked Insight" (not that kind of naked! get your minds out of the gutter) which is focused on production and marketing in the Entertainment world. Her latest effort is "The Daily Stick" - a collection of memorable quotations. They might be funny, weird, disturbing or disgusting but they Stick with her so she puts them on a virtual sticky note for you. For whatever reason, this got me all jazzed up and I wrote this simple little widget that will display today’s Sticky on your site. It’s really a very simple JavaScript that takes today’s date and parses it into an image URL of today’s Stick.

So, if you think it’s fun, here’s the code to put it into your site (note, provided as-is with no guarantee or warranty):

<p id="dailystick"><script src="http://dailystick.com/wp-includes/js/dsdaily.js" type="text/javascript"></script></p>

Update:

Thanks to Derek Anderson over at the Widget Lab, I have updated the script today. Based on Derek’s recommendation I have added some size options to the Daily Stick Widget.

If you leave the id attribute as ‘dailystick’ (as in the above example) the image will be a thumbnail at 128×128 pixels.

Change the paragraph id to "mediumdailystick" and the image will be 200×200 pixels.

Finally, setting the id to "bigdailystick" will display the sticky note in all its glory at 300×300 pixels.

Web Analytics Guru and all-around nice guy, Eric T. Peterson, is doing a webcast - exclusively for Web Analytics Association Members. The webcast is entitled "Web Analytics Is Easy!", can’t wait to find out what that means but more importantly, there will be an extended question and answer session at the end of the webcast! Ever wish that you could have a sit-down with a luminary like Eric to find out what’s what? Well, the cost of membership to the WAA is probably cheaper than getting Eric on a consulting gig or traveling to an Emetrics summit so it might be easier to get your management to defray the cost on your membership than getting the OK for Emetrics. Hey, you do what you can right?

The webcast is next Wednesday, August 29th (yip just nine days away) so hop to it!

Disclaimer: I am a Director on the WAA Board