Archive for the 'random linkage' Category

RSS, SSE, let’s call the whole thing off

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Why yes, it is Everybody Gets Skewered Day. Just like every day, Skippy. Maybe I’ll make “carping” my default category. Microsoft announced their RSS-SSE-WTF? extension this morning. I was going to go over it in depth, paying special attention to the fact that this is the third time in a row that they’ve embraced and […]

Would you buy a used website from this company?

Monday, November 21st, 2005

If your best advice for me is meta tags, I’ve got a ticket to this century I’ll sell you cheap.

Know anything about Word(form|Press) and PHP 4.4.1?

Monday, November 21st, 2005

If you just happen to be an expert in PHP releases, or be the one who compiles PHP for Hosting Matters, please unbreak my friend. Thanks.

Keeping your eye on the correct walnut

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Talking about well-formedness is fine, except when you are talking about a part of the process of acquiring an XML document, parsing it, and presenting the results, where well-formedness either doesn’t apply, or doesn’t apply in the way you say it does.

And back, and back, and back

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Too many stories about how nice it is to take your broken Apple products to the Apple store for replacement makes me wonder whether their stuff is right for someone who would have to drive six hours to get to an Apple store.

Get your tinfoil hat on

Monday, November 14th, 2005

If practically every website I visit is going to send information about my every click and pageview to Google, I guess it’s time to go back to stopping them in my hosts file.

Make the pink go away

Monday, November 14th, 2005

A fun optical illusion, and a post doing what I love to see, pointing to something the author likes, no matter who’s already linked to it.

MT Real Comment Throttle: The Last Hurrah

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Meh. It’s a good thing WordPress has “Pages” that make it easy to create a “project page” that I can keep clear of the usual bitching and depression I want to void when I finish with something. Real Comment Throttle for Movable Type 3.2, version 0.2 is out! Get it from the project page!

Google sez: all your profile are belong to Creative Commons

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Google’s Creative Commons license search includes any page with the word “profile” in it. Why?

Blogs ruining Topix.net

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

Oops, I seem to have broken Topix.net.