Monthly Archives: August 2002

LiveJournal largely ignored, but why?

Caught this snippet on tweeney.com via JOHO: “…LiveJournal.com (which most weblog news stories overlook for some reason) boasts more than 650,000 [users]…” Why does everyone seem to ignore LiveJournal? It’s very, very, very rare that I see a LiveJournaller’s posts linked into the Blogosphere at large. Granted, I know that the median user was [...]

Interop: Movable Type IM-based pub/sub?

Even more gas is flowing – from andersja’s blog: Movable Type notifications to Instant Messenger? I really want to see this, and I want to see news aggregators exploit this – why poll a feed once an hour when you can just have the feed tell you to come ‘n get it? Basic publish/subscribe model. [...]

Outlining + IM = On Fire

Dave writes, “I have my instant outliner going again.“ Kick. Ass. Now we’re cooking with gas. I think I need to get a fresh install of Radio going on this iBook again, especially since it seems renice works now and can tame the CPU hungry beast to managable levels. I was kinda [...]

Would the real RSS please stand up?

Sam Ruby responds to Dave’s question:I am not a stakeholder in this naming issue, nor can I claim based on personal experience that any of the above references are authoritative, but based on these references alone, it seems to me that one could ask the converse to both of these questions: i.e, why is RSS [...]

“…ideas are fucking worthless.”

…that’s what’s got me so bothered about people musing in their weblogs about projects they’d like to do. Stop talking about it an just build it. Don’t make it too complicated. Don’t spend so much time planning on events that will never happen. Programmers, good programmers, are known for over-engineering to save time later down [...]

AmphetaOutlines fix download page fixed

D’oh. Just realized that the download link for the fixed AmphetaOutlines was at the bottom of the page, so I was puzzled that I kept getting emails about it doing the same broken things. I seem to be missing many things lately. :) Anyway, the correct download is here: AmphetaOutlines-20020822.tar.gz: This should include [...]

Comments rise from the ashes

Well, that sucked. I managed to get an all but complete dump of my comments.db file with db_dump on my server, but then nothing would parse or load that file after that. Banged around with it for awhile until I finally realized how to parse the dump file myself with a perl one-liner [...]

Dead comments, they keep calling me

Grr again. As a few of you have told me in email, and as I noticed toward the end of yesterday, my comments feature here is dead. Seems that as the disk filled up on this server, someone tried leaving a comment, and as Murphy came into play, the comments DB file got [...]