Les wants to be acknowledged by search engines for his expertise in wil wheaton monkey sex. I wouldn’t really recommend it, based on my experience with the main squeeze of a certain golfer. My poor, neglected Big Blog Tool blog is still bringing in several hundred frustrated searchers who want to do unspeakable things with […]
If you miss the site navigation bar (AKA linktoolbar: a toolbar that shows links from <link> tags for things like next/prev, first/last, and alternate formats like RSS) in Mozilla 1.0, here are a couple of resources for hacking it back in: hack comm.jar (didn’t work for me on Windows), and the “untested xpi” attachment from […]
Just a reminder to me, to keep checking on the blogroots resources list, waiting for “ways to submit new information to be included” – given that the section on comments only includes aspcomments, cgiComments, and Reblogger (with a link!; I know people remember the name Reblogger, but since it has been an ex-comment system since […]
Thinking about what Orson Scott Card might still have to say about Ender’s world, it occurred to me that if Ender’s Game was rewritten today (or, more reasonably, in a few years), Locke and Demosthenes would be writing weblogs, rather than posting in what sounds a bit like Usenet. I see that someone was already […]
Update: this hack is included in Movable Type 2.6, so you don’t need to do it yourself anymore. While it’s not the truly smart convert line breaks I really want, I hacked in a smart-enough to suit me version that’s only moderately slow. The biggest drawback is that my version doesn’t convert line breaks inside […]
As Tobias notes, an RSS feed of the last 20 comments on any post can be a bit noisy, and as I’m beginning to notice from subscribing to the EmptyBottle comments feed, comments tend to need context even more than weblog posts. Right now, while I remember the post that got the comment, I know […]
The other day, I reminded myself that I liked the idea of an RSS comment feed, so that you wouldn’t have to keep checking back to see whether someone had replied to your comment on someone else’s blog. Today I followed a link from scripting.com about namespaces in RSS 0.9x (okay, I don’t really have […]
I meant to respond to whoever sent me the referrals from http://referers/are/easy/to/fake/, but I see that Les said it better: You can kick my house over, walk by, or help me lay bricks. In any case, the house will still get built as long as I still like building it. My referral script (coming along: […]
Thanks to Tobias pointing out that a weblog in your blo.gs favorites with non-ascii characters was breaking the script (since HTML character entities don’t mean jack to an XML parser), now blo.gs outputs your favorites.xml file encoded as ISO-8859-1 rather than using character entities, and if you plan on adding any blogs with non-ascii characters […]
Every time the subject of RSS comes up, someone will ask me “Why not just read their blog in your browser?” (generally in different terms, depending on how crabby they are at the time). Here’s one answer: while I think of my blogroll as being my personal blog reading list, nothing more, most people think […]