Archive for September, 2002

Pyra speaks!

Thursday, September 12th, 2002

Rudy Winnacker : “After getting into the cage it became apparent that the task requires some more complicated work on the file server than we had anticipated, including the physical removal of it from the rack.” Steve Jenson : “It required rewriting page generation so if anybody notices any strange spacing issues, please feel free […]

Textarea snooping

Thursday, September 12th, 2002

Shannon Campbell : “Someone needs to write a Movable Type Plug-in that will echo all the keystrokes anyone enters in a comment box.” Ulp. I’m not going to do it, but I do know how it can be done.

Annoyed? Don’t link

Thursday, September 12th, 2002

Dorothea : “If I can’t say something nice, I shouldn’t say anything at all… especially on the Web.”

A leaner, faster Mozilla?

Thursday, September 12th, 2002

Dave Hyatt : “We need to forcibly eject people from the elevator.”

A major improvement

Tuesday, September 10th, 2002

Minutes before going to bed last night, I wrote “until I come up with something better […] I use fopen/fread in PHP to get sha1.cgi?s=mailto:address” to get an SHA-1 hash. Minutes after getting up this morning, I was changing that to include(‘inc.sha1.php’);, thanks (as in all-caps, <blink>, onMouseover=’trumpetflourish.wav’ thanks) to Marcus Campbell, who mailed me […]

A minor victory

Tuesday, September 10th, 2002

I think I’ve found the solution to my first problem with my RDF project, how to identify people when they post with one name, and comment with another couple of names, possibly using more than one email address and homepage URL as well: Friend Of A Friend, or FOAF, is an RDF vocabulary for describing […]

RDF: not for the faint of heart

Sunday, September 8th, 2002

They say the RDF in RSS 1.0 will let people do cool things. They say the RDF in RSS 1.0 will allow for unexpected connections. Okay, so I figured out a cool thing to do with the RDF in RSS 1.0: convince everyone I can in my circle to provide an RSS 1.0 feed not […]

The clue-by-four hits

Saturday, September 7th, 2002

Give me long enough, and enough clues, and eventually I’ll catch on. I completely failed to grasp why Jim wouldn’t use RSS 1.0 because <title> is required. I didn’t really get why he supported TrackBack but didn’t fake a <dc:title> so that the Movable Type “Select a TrackBack entry to ping” select list was mostly […]

Obsolete my hacks. Please.

Friday, September 6th, 2002

Coming soon to a Movable Type installation near you: MT 2.5 will allow you to ping blo.gs and other weblogs.com compatible services, obsoleting my hack to do it, and will stop spam-pinging weblogs.com, only pinging when an entry is first published (whether its a new entry, or newly going from draft to publish), obsoleting my […]

The tyranny of titles

Thursday, September 5th, 2002

Back in the day, using Blogger Classic, I didn’t much miss post titles. If I was doing a blog that required them, I faked them up with markup, and if I didn’t need them I just plunged right in. Now, after five months of Blogger Pro and another three of Movable Type, I can’t imagine […]