Archive for the 'shorts' Category

Got bandwidth?

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Can you stop hotlinking of MP3s in embed/bgsound? I can’t see a way, offhand.

Got proxies?

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

SpamLookup: the grown-up, multiple-trigger, multiple-disposition way to deal with spam on your MT weblog. If I ever wind up with a spam problem, I’ll be dropping it in.

The charm wears thin

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Do you got money?

Lickr? I hardly know ‘er!

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Lickr: a user script to deFlash Flickr. Now to figure out why it doesn’t work on my teetering pile of unstable Firefox builds and alpha Greasemonkeys.

Now that’s ironic, part two

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Anil approvingly notes that Tim Bray’s looking forward to having Atom save him from seeing duplicate posts, despite the fact that MT‘s poised to be a major source of duplicates, with its dynamic atom:ids, and it ain’t gonna work anyway. I love syndication, but I don’t much like it most of the time.

Now that’s ironic, part one

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Blogger saves posts in a cookie as you type (a feature bug-workaround I swear Ev first did years ago, when we walked uphill both directions in the snow to post, only to get a NullPointerException, though old Blogger news is virtually unfindable), then pulls the feature because it’s buggy. Some weeks, you can’t win.

Needless offence!

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Joseph’s Report typo… is a little jewel, though I’d like better survival of CSS-but-no-JavaScript and JavaScript-but-no-CSS. As long as I didn’t have to do it, that is.

Got my attention

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Ted Leung says data about his attention is personal. Best I can tell, attention.xml is all about telling others (people and computers) what you think is important and interesting in your aggregator. Guess what? I just did.

Nearly as nice as real characters

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

WordPress changeset 2517 : add entity 2 ncr converter. :)

Infinity plus one, or maybe 2075 this weekend

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

Curious about how high the GMail storage counter’s going, and when? Me too, but I’m lazy. Luckily, not everybody is.