December 22, 2002 – 10:24 pm
Mark Pilgrim writes: “I am now a card-carrying associate member of the Free Software Foundation. Software is free, but lawyers are expensive.”
And from the FSF membership page:You will receive a personalized, bootable, business-card-sized GNU/Linux distribution as your membership card.
This GNU/Linux distribution is based on LNX-BBC. New cards will be sent to renewing members every [...]
December 21, 2002 – 4:54 pm
This week, at work, I cobbled together a hack for MovableType that hooks it up with an LDAP server for author accounts: MovableTypeLDAPAuthors. This is an early, early, early release of the thing, and is likely to do very nasty things for all that I know. But, I wanted to share, and it [...]
December 18, 2002 – 1:40 pm
In case anyone’s been wondering, I’ve not slipped back into oblivion. I’ve been a little busier at work again, but nowhere near a death march pace. And, in the free time I’ve been clearing up for tinkering, I’ve been working semi-obsessively on the aforementioned PersonalWebProxy idea. I dove back into Python, started [...]
December 14, 2002 – 3:57 pm
Today’s revelation while tinkering with my PersonalWebProxy: Decompressed content is larger than compressed content.
See, I was decompressing gzipped content streams in the proxy in order to fiddle with the content before it got to the browser, but then I noticed that browsers kept only displaying part of the content. I remove [...]
December 13, 2002 – 7:53 pm
Okay… This really is the LazyWeb. I barely mention writing some sort of RDF-based Tinderbox-a-like, and I see a link to Ideagraph on the #rdfig scratchpad .
December 13, 2002 – 7:27 pm
Is it just me, or is it pretty damn ironic that Mac OS X: The Complete Reference is available in Acrobat eBook Reader format, yet the Acrobat eBook Reader is not available for MacOSX?
Yes, I’m bitter. And stupid. While I didn’t buy the MacOSX reference, I did buy a book in eBook Reader [...]
December 13, 2002 – 4:33 pm
I hadn’t had a bon mot for it until yesterday, but I’ve been thinking about the concept of recombinant growth for awhile now and how it intersects with the LazyWeb / blogosphere.
In particular, I’ve been thinking about design. I’m of two minds. As a perfectionist, I want sparkling gorgeous gems of [...]
December 13, 2002 – 3:17 am
Another little train of thought, whose conclusion will probably be obvious to anyone:
I wonder how hard it would be for me to make a little personal idea processor like Eastgate Tinderbox using RDF? Very likely much harder than it was for its author to create the original - I’m by no means smarter than [...]
