Archive for December, 2001

RSS for uncorrected errors

Monday, December 31st, 2001

Interesting meta-blogging tool: the weblogs category from NewsIsFree not only aggregates blog posts for you, it also lets you see people’s quickly corrected typos and deleted posts. For instance, at the moment I see where Cam took almost half an hour to correct (or NewsIsFree took half an hour to notice the correction to) “Do […]

My kind of cooking site:

Monday, December 31st, 2001

My kind of cooking site: The Single Man’s Guide to TV Dinners. This site embodies the perfect reading accompaniment to a pleasant repast of Freschetta Supreme Pizza emboldened by the addition of Musco Family Olive Co. Black Pearls Sliced Ripe Olives (which, sadly, is precisely what I was eating while reading it). [Anythink ->Mike’s Weblog->Newsisfree->Me]

Gimme back my Discuss

Monday, December 31st, 2001

Six days without getting to say “Sorry, you can’t use Blogger with envy.nu” in Blogger Discuss. I’m going into withdrawl. Doesn’t anybody have a question? (Other than “why can’t I see my blog on envy.nu?”)

TextAd directory

Monday, December 31st, 2001

The indefatigable Peter Scott’s The Complete Guide to Web Logs has a directory of text ads, whether you are looking to advertise or to host ads.

Hah! A reprieve: Blogger’s template

Sunday, December 30th, 2001

Hah! A reprieve: Blogger’s template server is down again, serving up a 500 error for the archive template and a blank textarea for the main template. Woohoo, I get to surf instead of working on my site!

Pardon the broken links in

Sunday, December 30th, 2001

Pardon the broken links in the menu to the right, if you would: I seem to be far too distractable lately. All I need to do is to swap templates a couple of times on three different blogs and I’ll be done moving in, but every time I start to get it done, somebody comments […]

More remote commenting

Sunday, December 30th, 2001

Progress on various remote commenting fronts: Marcus is starting to show some of what he has in mind for BlogBack Plus, including XML or dotcomments-format import/export. Ruzz (of Big Blog Tool) is starting to show more of his hand about Big Comment Tool, both on his site and in my comments. Beta testing starts in […]

PapaScott : Blogrolling with PHP

Sunday, December 30th, 2001

PapaScott : Blogrolling with PHP alone – another approach to changes.xml and PHP, without the mySQL db.

Weblogs.com howto

Sunday, December 30th, 2001

Weblogs.com howto – bold the recently updated in your list of blogs by reading changes.xml into a mySQL db.

PRAX – PHP Record-oriented API

Saturday, December 29th, 2001

PRAX – PHP Record-oriented API for XML – now if only I could remember why I needed it, back when it seemed to be among the missing…