Archive for October, 2002

I will not. I will not.

Thursday, October 17th, 2002

Espresso Blog 1.4.1 released. I will not buy a Mac. I do not need another computer. NetNewsWire Pro Features : Weblog editing, AppleScript support, Notepad, Filters, Find command, Alternate headlines view, Train-friendly. I will not buy a Mac. I do not need another computer.

rdf:resource and character data

Wednesday, October 16th, 2002

Just posting this in case I want to refer back to it at some point, since I’ll forget where I left it in Ben’s comments otherwise: RSS 1.0 elements that use URIs in character data rather than in rdf:resources dc:identifier ag:sourceURL possibly some of email? str: associatedApplication.downloadUri, str: codec.url, str: codec.downloadUri, str: live.contactUri taxo:link And […]

Just code it

Tuesday, October 15th, 2002

In keeping with my new policy of cryptic posts that clearly slam someone, though it’s not clear who: I’ve yet to see a computer problem solved by throwing words at it, but I dearly love to see one solved by throwing some code at it. Marcus has come up with yet another lovely solution to […]

Why won’t they listen?

Monday, October 14th, 2002

Sometimes, when nobody gets it, and you keep telling them and telling them, and they still don’t get it? Sometimes that means you’re wrong. I’m just saying…

Practical RDF

Monday, October 14th, 2002

Shelley’s Practical RDF book weblog has the first chapter of her prequel to “Making Pigs Fly in a Nutshell” up for technical review. I doubt I’ll find any nits to pick, but I’ll be reading along anyway, since she’s already saying just the sort of things I want to hear: It is only fair to […]

Syndication Subscription Service

Sunday, October 13th, 2002

No more orange coffee cup and pill RSS icons for me: just a “sub” icon to subscribe in any known aggregator.

Redirecting RSS redirection

Saturday, October 12th, 2002

Sam wants to use the rdf:about attribute on the channel item to redirect RSS feeds, but I doubt it will fly, for several reasons on both sides of the fence.

Flipping the switch

Saturday, October 12th, 2002

Making the Mozilla Phoenix browser my default.

Pinging Richard’s sidebar

Saturday, October 12th, 2002

Richard adds syndication via TrackBack to MovableBLOG, I vow to stop using auto-generated excerpts.

CategoryTrackbackData plugin

Saturday, October 12th, 2002

Inspired by Kristine’s totally twisted idea of a bookmarklet-accessible category TrackBack URL for the index page, CategoryTrackbackData is a first shot at a plugin to add TrackBack RDF to your category archive pages. Download the plugin, unzip, upload to your plugins directory, and add <$MTCategoryTrackbackData$> or <$MTCategoryTrackbackData comment_wrap=”0″$> to your category archive template (outside the […]