April 30, 2003
Blogshares
Zoinks! Apparently all this must be worth something, at least according to blogshares. This reminds me of the crappy a...
Mischief
What mischeivious things do you remember doing as a child? I can recall turning up the hose just as a...
Rankings?
Alexa gathers and presents Related Info for sites. Apparently it's driven from users of it's Toolbar. Like anything else, it's...
April 29, 2003
OTR
Fan of old time radio? Here's a bunch on an ftp site. Tales calculated to keep you in suspense!...
April 28, 2003
I want event metadata
I want lists of events with real data. I want to have reliable location, address, purpose and time data accessible....
Coddling bad software?
Should we bother trying to coddle bad ways of doing things simply because those are the only tools people possess?...
Step away from the aggregator...
Apparently slashdot is starting to feel it's own pain. Now they're limiting use of RSS downloads to only once an...
April 27, 2003
Personal RSS and advertising?
Hmmm, Kottke got me thinking. There are several RSS feeds already available that focus on informing you of promotions, deals...
April 26, 2003
Found money!
Very nice! Someone used my SpeakEasy account as a referral and saved me $50 on this month's bill. I've been...
Getting metadata from your users
Trying to get users to apply metadata? Try the "drive by metadata" approach...
April 25, 2003
Bleeech, personal advertising?
Finally, someone's coming 'round to some rational ideas on interacting with sites and advertising. Really personalized advertising (kottke.org)....
Log harvesting
Via Big Pink Cookie The data from the logs can most certainly be analyed to "tell" what's going on. Combine...
XP media player supports Blogging?
blogger, mt, audio, mp3, media player
April 24, 2003
Doing sitewide Foaf
With the addition of Brad Choate's MTAuthor plug-in it looks like it should be possible to do a site-wide FoaF...
Exposing your XML
I'm doing a little experimenting. This is a link to an XML representation of an article here. I've used a...
April 23, 2003
Connection overload
Zounds, I'm so connected it hurts. IRC channels into rdfig and etcon, Confab, MSN and RSS. Pardon the mess while...
Bad RSS readers
How about we all start mining our server logs and start 'outing' the bad RSS readers? Ones that don't: honor...
April 22, 2003
Interacting with Caches?
Why don't RSS readers act proactively with proxies? I run Squid on my laptop. Why don't the readers have a...
Feeds in Readers?
Has anyone who's written an aggregator given consideration as to how crappy a feed's site will look in it? I'm...
April 21, 2003
EWN
Well, a guy's gotta be famous for something I suppose. What's your Winer Number? Revelling in the infamy since the...
Benchmarking log performance?
Has anyone done any comprehensive benchmarks of various logging solutions for Apache? Something that compared the relative CPU/RAM/resource consumption of...
April 19, 2003
Keeping digging
Winer, once again, proves what a real jerk he is. Sam Ruby and others keep hoping Dave will somehow wise...
Why foaf?
One value behind foaf is it's ability to present multiple URI as references to the 'same' person. That is, my...
Have some respect for your own privacy
Once again Shelly gives us some thoughtful perspective, this time on job applications and privacy. I have to say I...
April 18, 2003
WiFi workarounds
When travelling be sure you've got contingency services available. Ben Hammersley's travelling and discovers the WiFi provider is blocking port...
April 17, 2003
weblogger navel gazing gone bad
Oh for pity's sake, not content with gazing fiercely at their own navels, some webloggers have taken to photographing their...
Throttle that web server!
Overnight I discovered a certain server down in New Zealand has seen fit to start trying to spider one of...
April 16, 2003
When potato guns go bad
The Darwin Awards should start including a category for children. Via Greg's Pierce"This was just lucky that they had run...
Use compression on your web server
Serving up web pages? Using compression? Why not?
I still don't buy bloated RSS
I disagree with this being the default configuration for an RSS feed. For several reasons. They can work in certain situations but not by default. Here's why...
April 15, 2003
RSS feeds from Hell
Full content feeds are evil.
Moving from Radio to MT
If you move from Radio to MT and you want to keep the same URL structure you can. That is,...
April 14, 2003
And your little dog too!
Day by Day serves up a fitting picture of Nancy Pelosi....
April 12, 2003
3 Column CSS
Apparently I'm not alone in having CSS woes... 3 Columns isn't as hard as I thought.
April 11, 2003
CSS insanity
Good God Almighty is CSS a PAIN IN THE ASS. Or, more to the point, the inconsistencies of it in...
Discretion and weblogging?
Weblogging, you post and it raises issues. How you might handle the issues might something to think about before you start shooting your blog off. Choose your words and your forum wisely.
Enneagrams
David Watson points out yet another one of those personality profiling tests. We must have something in common....
Dumb ideas that sound good
Full content RSS feeds sound like a fine idea. That is, until you dealing with real issues. My main objection...
CSS shenanigans
Want to drive an browser driven aggregator crazy? Put unclosed tables or CSS styles in your stuff. Heh, what a...
Windows navigation tip
For what it's worth, when you're saving files on a Windows box and you need to change directories, you can...
April 10, 2003
Crash recovery
With more than a little bit of patience, and undoubtedly a lot of luck, I managed to get my Win2k...
April 09, 2003
Carpooling
From: McCusker & McCuskerThe price of gasoline has gotten so high in Texas, the women who want to run over...
Got Dot Net? 1.1 is out
Got Dot Net? The 1.1 framework is out. Get it
here.
Mozilla sucks
Mozilla sucks and it crashed my machine.
Japan offers aid
CNN reports:Japan will contribute up to $100 million worth of humanitarian assistance to Iraq and neighboring countries, its foreign ministry...
Edge data
Elizabeth Lane offers some interesting comments about the edges of emerging social network ideas. This is been one of my...
Baghdad Broadcasting Service
I'm pretty well fed up with the BBC. I will certainly withhold contributing to local public radio if they continue...
Baghdad falls to US forces
Baghdad falls to US forcesIn a symbolic moment, an American armoured vehicle helped a crowd of cheering Iraqis to pull...
Square wheels
Via: Big Dead PlaceAny nearby organizational chart will depict the overt power structure, but behind it all is an almost...
April 08, 2003
Bullshit over airwave 'ownership'
David Reed highlights on on-going scam being slowly perpetrated on the public. The scam of airwave ownership. There are no...
Weblog saves guy from crazy relationship
The Accordian Guy escapes the relationship from Hell
Leading media
Colin Powell lays some smack down on German media reporters....
Protesters are traitors?
Go to a protest, get your picture taken, have it show up on a web site calling you a traitor.
Attending FOSE?
Any readers out there attenting FOSE 2003 here in DC at our brand-spanking new convention center? It's running April 8th...
Capturing links
Let's say you want to know if people are using the links on your page. If you use plain HREF links you can't easily track them. What you have to do is capture the links. Here's how to do it...
Spammer loses in hearing
Yesterday, Anne Arundel court denied the plaintff's demand that a website 'outing' his address and contact info was not harrassment.
Quotes seen elsewhere
Every so often I come across something that's worth hanging onto. If they get a wry laugh from me, I'll...
April 07, 2003
Local man challenges spammer
Marketer Challenges Anti-Spam Crusader. A local man in Ellicott City has taken steps to challenge a spammer located in Linthicum....
April 06, 2003
MySQL make test error?
Trying to build MySQL and getting a failure during 'make test' at the 'Create' part of it
get yer tinfoil hats out!
The weblog community's got itself all a-quiver lately over whether the FBI is watching them. Puh-eeeze people! Gimme a frickin' break
A caffeintated good morning!
Woo hoo! Gotta love Jamaican Blue Moutain coffee, especially when it's made in a coffee press. Zing! ...
April 05, 2003
Attacking spammers
I say it's high time we all started actively working to expose spammers and people bent on abusing our computing resources.
Headline humor
Via Slate Hey Mikey, he likes it!...
April 04, 2003
Iraq jokes
From Andrew Sullivan: How do you know a Ba'athist is lying? His mustache is moving. And we curse it!...
Exchanging views
Apparently DC commuters aren't afraid to voice their opinions with ill-informed pseudo-protesters.
"...if you touch me again, I'll stick this umbrella up your ass and open it."
exploit reporter?
I'm not one to pay much attention to referral or web access logs. But recently I've had to delve into some and was unpleasantly surprised to find a fair amount of requests for various security exploits. Why not deploy some sort of service that collects the IP addresses and uses them during future page deliveries?
Just a thought, oh
lazy web...
April 03, 2003
Just because
In keeping with the fine traditions upheld by carrier pigeon TCP, beer kegger in a VAX, portable Atari 2600 (in...
Protein Diets
Cory makes mention of the Atkins Diet. What a train wreck. Here's a tip you might not know about, alcohol is a
very bad thing to consume on this diet.
Buttons in MT editor
I'm in the process of integrating a better text editor into MovableType's templates. But in the interim I've found a very simple way to add one or two buttons that really help.
Spring has sprung!
I've got about 150 of those little seed starter thingies going. The radishes are making a helluva sprint, sprouting after four days! The brocolli seems to be vying for a close second.
April 02, 2003
Singer Edwin Starr Dies of Heart Attack
Singer Edwin Starr Dies of Heart Attack. Agent Double-O Soul,
Headline News, My Girl, War... great stuff.
sendmail refusing to answer?
Let's say you've got a server that's running sendmail. You upgraded it to run the latest RPM and it suddenly stops answer on port 25. So what's gone wrong?
Word usage
Kevin Drum makes an interesting observation on people's misuse of words. Which leads to nice piece from Kieran as well....
More idiocy from the French
While the French nitwits might not like us for what we're doing to liberate Iraq, you can be damn well sure that
WE'LL remember them for doing this sort of shit to
US.
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April 01, 2003
TurboBall ain't no TurboRing
I had a Kensington TurboRing and LOVED it. The TurboBall is their current warranty replacement as the TurboRing is no...
Slashdot effect
Having weathered a slashdot effect, I'm wondering about how to couple detected traffic stats with rebuilding and offsite storage. Perhaps to cobble together something like, whoops traffic is out of control, divert to another site ASAP!
