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(I know this will come off as sexist, but…) Despite having a Y chromosome, whenever I feel stressed out and unhappy with my life, I tend to buy stuff. (See, capitalism does work. Who cares if everyone is living a life of unremitting misery? At least we’re helping the economy!)

So yesterday I dropped down money that I don’t really have to purchase a Marware SportSuit Convertible for my iPod, a Keyspan Presentation Remote, a U.S. Robotics SoundLink Wireless Audio Delivery System, and a Hawking Technology 2 USB + 1 Parallel Port Internet Print Server.

While I have been screwing around with Romeo, which turns a Bluetooth-enabled phone (such as the Sony Ericsson T610) into a remote control for your Macintosh running OS X, the range of Bluetooth isn’t as far as I hoped for. And besides, what with the UNIX mantra of “the right tool for the task” (as opposed to “all-in-one” creeping featurism), I figure it might be worth having a dedicated remote. (Ah, I love my rationalizations. Besides, I will have to do presentations when I’m a resident physician.)

Man, I can’t wait until I start earning a paycheck.

amazon_buybox is a plugin that generates code for items at Amazon.com, creating a link to the description, pulling the image file, and creating a “buy” button.

The following element <blosxom:amazon-buybox asin="ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number)">description</blosxom:amazon-buybox> will be turned into:

     <div class="amazon-desc">description</div>  
	  <div class="amazon-image">  
	  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003RGY/ref=nosim/associate ID">  
	  <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003RGY.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="picture of description" />  
     </a>  
     </div>  
     <form method="POST" action="http://www.amazon.com/o/dt/assoc/handle-buy-box=B000003RGY">  
     <input type="hidden" name="asin.B000003RGY" value="1" />  
     <input type="hidden" name="tag-value" value="associate ID" />  
     <input type="hidden" name="tag_value" value="associate ID" />  
     <input type="submit" name="submit.add-to-cart" value="Buy from Amazon.com" />  
     </form>
       

You can customize the elements that contain the description, the image, and the whole thing.

See this entry for an example.