Monthly Archives: May 2003

Don’t Call It an Obsession

Just read Matt Gemmell’s bit of a catalog of his Nintendo collection, and ever since Russell professed his love for his ?GameBoy Advance, I’ve been meaning to write something about my personal video game addiction. For the past few months, with everything that’s been going on in my life, I’ve not had much time for nursing my habit. But, since things [...]

Thank You, Readers

Oh, and I’ve been meaning to post a little note of thanks to everyone who’re still reading this blog. I haven’t done or said much of note around these parts in some time, with the only saving grace being my automated BookmarkBlogger posting every night. More than I expected, those posts have actually caught the interest of [...]

No More Mr. RSSify

RSSify is a rather horrible hack that shouldn’t be needed any more. Please ask the owner of the site you’re reading (…) to change to a system that generates RSS natively such as Blogger Pro or Movable Type. Alternatively consider hosting RSSify yourself rather than using my bandwidth. Source:22-May-03 Moving away from RSSify Noticed this show up [...]

Programming Web Services with Perl

A copy of Programming Web Services with Perl surprised me yesterday by arriving on my doorstep. I’d forgotten that back in March, Paul Kulchenko (one author of the book’s two) had offered me a free copy of it response to a quick thought of mine about a more Unix-like model for filtering web services (something I want to get back [...]

Mad Trackback Disease

I’ve just started experimenting with integrating Sam Ruby’s autoping.py with my blogging rig here, and discovered that I really had rushed things a bit and didn’t understand what the thing was doing. I think my caffeine intake for today is way below baseline, so if yours happens to be one of the sites I mistakenly vandalized or spammed with [...]

You’ve Got Your Whuffie in My Aggregator!

I’ve given the aggregator a concept of whuffie. I can give any item that has been aggregated a thumbs up or thumbs down, increasing or decreasing the item and site’s wuffie. I sort the sites out as I display them by their whuffie. It is a simplistic way of keeping the sites I’m interested in [...]

The Matrix BrickPhone

Okay, no. This new Matrix-inspired phone is ugly as hell and not cool at all. Do they actually use this thing in the movie? I hope this isn’t a sign for what the movie will be like — clumsy, bulky, cartoonish and not at all subtle like the original. See, the first movie [...]

Google Blog Clog?

…Personally, I’m getting SICK of running into my OWN BLOG while doing research into any of the topics that I’ve ranted about here. I spend a couple posts talking about a technology with questions or thoughts, then later I go to implement this tech and need specifics and yet 2 or 3 of the top [...]