Turns out, you can link to a particular page in a PDF file, plus a whole lot more, including setting the zoom level and scrolling to a particular spot, all in a link. I still hate PDFs, but not quite as much as I did before.
gzip compression’s an easy way to save on bandwidth, unless you are Blog*Spot sending things without a Content-Type header with a charset to Mozilla.
The programmer writes and releases, the users use and *report bugs*.
A simple (by which I mean, mostly copied and pasted from the MT source) plugin to make categories first-class Trackback citizens, adding the four Trackback-related tags that entries have and categories lacked.
Remarkable how simple things like needing a permalink to put in a .zip, but needing the .zip uploaded before I can create the entry to get the permalink, can trap me in a vicious circle of reading weblogs and playing video games instead of actually doing something.
Either the terms of a software license matter, or they shouldn’t be in the license. Mostly I treat licenses like sausage, and try to avoid the details, but a closer look at the current Movable Type license, and the one with the copy of MT I’m currently using, leaves me feeling rather unsettled.
Six Apart is a company that screwed the pooch, that’s so far off the Cluetrain they can’t even hear the whistle. They are also my friends, and my friends get to make mistakes.
Just when you’d completely forgotten about them, Blogger relaunches with actual new features! Features, I say. One of them is comments! Say goodbye, dotcomments support! Yes, I’m over-excited!
What better spam for a bunch of Mac-lovers who’ve never seen a site that’s too dumb to deliver text/html? Alexander Morozov’s comment spam just keeps getting better and better.
Want a nice big Technorati cosmos? You can either post fascinating and insightful things, link to and comment on lots of other blogs, do everything you can think of to get noticed without being annoying, or you can be Google, and post nothing but the word “test”.