As spring turns to summer and the graduation season is upcoming, I’m making adjustments as well. As far as this weblog is concerned, that means time to re-focus. My posts over the past years (I’ve been doing this, on one server or another, for at least 7 years) have been on a wide variety [...]
I assigned myself a project for the weekend, writing a little program that I could use to disable comments on blog posts based on their age. Python’s already installed on the Mac, so I figured it’d be pretty easy to use that to make updates to my Wordpress database.
The first thing needed is the [...]
He’s been using Facebook and other sites for several years; now college-boy is jumping into the Blog world. Welcome aboard, James!
I upgraded WordPress to version 2.3.2 this morning.
WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC [...]
For Jeff B. and the rest of us: 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know.
Jon Udell, in Talking to everyone, asks
How do you talk to everyone about the transformative benefits of the technologies we’re so excited about, in ways that don’t make people flip the bozo switch and tune you out? How do you tell stories that make the benefits of the technology come alive for people, in ways [...]
For several years now I’ve been a very happy customer of HostingMatters.com, using them for my family’s sites and recommending them to friends and anyone else that asked. Their service is normally quick, friendly and efficent.
As of early this morning, though, my site was being redirected to a “suspended” page. When my credit card number [...]
USA Today, page 1D: Get an earful of the offbeat
The surprise about podcasting isn’t that millions are listening — the surprise is that millions are listening to some pretty arcane stuff.
No, the surprise — a pleasant one — is that a paper which is so mind-numbingly generic, purposefully so in order to reach the [...]
I’m still not sure how what sort of productive uses twitter has, but I’m giving it a try.
I’m wondering if any of my friends, family, co-workers, etc. are using twitter, and if so if they’ve found any semi-productive purpose for it.
[added later] Rick K. posted about twitter this weekend.
Same thought as last year. Not writing quite as often as I have at other times, but I’m still here.
Local news is good, be it delivered from community members’ blogs or in hardcopy on the driveway. In this week’s edition of the local newspaper, The Alpharetta-Roswell REVUE & NEWS, the publisher wrote an opinion piece entitled “Why newspapers still matter to you.” And yes they do matter, even to a ‘net-centric person like me. [...]
I warned you that it might be coming. The new year isn’t quite here yet, but the new weblog is (mostly, anyway).
Thanks to Geren and Mike for assistance in understanding how WordPress works.
They’re not saying “boo.” They’re saying “Moo-ving.”
Expect a new look, possibly using new software, for the new year. In the meantime, I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.
Blogger, the service that I use to build and maintain this weblog, has finally moved their new version out of beta. Over the next few weeks or so, everyone with an (old) Blogger account will be given the opportunity to move over to the new version, with a google (gmail) login i.d. (Google bought Blogger [...]
Speaking of tutorials, here’s a “complete installation and configuration guide” for using your Macintosh as a server for all your Internet needs: ISP in a box v2
This week I’m exploring del.icio.us. If you’re a user and have some tips, feel free to drop ‘em in comments here.
Something untoward is afoot. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred.
Alwin’s having “fun” with the net too, his long-held ahawkins.net domain’s all boogered up (technical term, that), so you can find his shingle hanging at alwinism.org for the time being at least.
Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite
Robert A. Heinlein
Apparently that doesn’t apply if you’re a student in 21st Century United States.
There’s been quite a flap this past week about kids and their use of the web. To me, there are three different topics getting mixed up together. Writing that can [...]
Al’s tagline always catches my eye.
Believe nothing. Trust no one. Give oxygen.
I’ve given blood before. Some people give bone marrow, others have given organs. Given that the human body takes in oxygen and returns carbon dioxide (at least, that’s the rumor goin’ round), I’m not sure how I can “give oxygen.” Al, care to elucidate?
Friday I had the good fortune of being asked to help build a new website/weblog, and so yesterday was a pretty darn productive day*.
Please welcome Fr3der1cK to the world of blogging. As with so many sites, the design and coding aren’t 100% complete done for launch — the web is as “finished” on any given [...]
You’re back at at school, you’re writing. You’re at work, you’re writing. You’re sitting at the keyboard staring at your empty blog, you’re writing. But what kind of writing are you doing?
NY Times: Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users.
Ms. Strongin and her staff said they were more concerned that the cafe, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, had turned into a place devoid of sound except the light clack of keys, not the focus of lively interaction that she and her husband, Chris [...]
Woah. I just came across this in an old draft that I apparently never finished for posting:
I don’t remember if I’ve recently pointed to Mark Bernstein’s 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web or not, thanks to Alwin for reminding us of it:
…a great guide for anyone who is either starting to write a weblog. [...]
A few years of weblogging… using Frontier/Manila since 28-Feb-2000, then Radio Userland starting in 2002. (And now as of 8/2005 everything good’s been moved to Blogger. Some of those links no longer exist and some have been rebuilt with the new tools.)
Stopdesign:
“Developing for IE initially, then trying to retrofit for other browsers will increase time and cost in the long run. But there’s a better way to approach development that’s faster and less costly.”
As Phil put it, “Web standards, man. They produce results.”
Simon Willison on valid XHTML
You can’t put a blockquote inside a paragraph, but you can (and indeed should) put a paragraph inside a blockquote.”
Ouch, I’m embarrassed by how long I’ve been getting that wrong.
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