And I’m amazed that people seem to still visit this blog, despite the near-complete inactivity. That reminds me, I really should do something with that MyBlogLog API sometime — I’m totally digging what Kent Brewster is doing with it.
Category Archives: asides
Comments fixed
January 28, 2008 – 1:58 pm
Oh, hey. Nothing like putting out a request for comments and then learning that my comments are broken, and have been since I upgraded to WordPress from SVN. Not that it’s the fault of WordPress - I renamed my comment form on the filesystem and in my theme to obscure it from spambots, but then [...]
Next serial enthusiasm?
January 28, 2008 – 1:47 am
Update: Yeah - I sent out a request for comments after breaking my comments. Ugh. Thanks if you tried commenting, and I hope you might try again. If not, thanks for stopping by anyway! So, I’ve been basically hacking on nothing after work for quite some time now. I’ve had a few [...]
wow, eve, and delicious
November 20, 2007 – 11:20 pm
Come see me try to write big words on my new blog about what I hope is not a new MMORPG addiction, while I work through the aftermath of this thing having been hacked.
hacked?
November 13, 2007 – 9:52 pm
Crap. Somehow, someone’s gotten access to edit my posts on this blog and have crapped in loads of viagra linkspam. I’ve probably destroyed the evidence already by deleting the spam as soon as I saw it — and as soon as some friendly readers emailed me pointing at more. I’ve done the [...]
cheating on my “real” blog
November 12, 2007 – 8:00 pm
decafbad recaffeinated is what I’m so far calling the Tinderbox-built blog with which I’m cheating on both my OPML blog and my “real” blog. Come take a look, if you’re so inclined to watch another of my experiments. (Update: It’s recaffeinated, not recaffinated. I ar gud speler.)
bookmarking outlier
October 9, 2007 – 12:18 pm
I’ve amassed 9681 bookmarks on del.icio.us as of right now. Quick napkin calculation: I post an average of 7 bookmarks a day, over my lifetime of 1353 days using the site. Within the next 45 days or so, I should reach 10000 bookmarks at this rate. I wonder if I should [...]
sadness for my dead palmtop
September 21, 2007 – 11:36 am
I dug my Zeos Pocket PC out of a box and apparently let out the magic smoke when I tried to plug it into a universal wall wart adapter. The voltage and polarity were right, and I’d used this adapter with this palmtop before - but this time, it literally smoked and smelled of [...]
it’s so quiet, time for an editorial calendar?
September 20, 2007 – 12:59 pm
Hmm. Time for this blogging cliché: Been awhile since last I posted here with any reliable volume. But, I’m thinking about whether another revamp of this place might get me going again. I’ve also considered making myself whip up an editorial calendar and actually commit myself to writing something on interesting [...]
hack day in london!
May 16, 2007 – 12:52 pm
Chances are good that I’ll be attending the Yahoo! Hack Day in London on June 16th & 17th to offer some del.icio.us representation. Thanks to my klutzy bus exit last September, I missed the Hack Day in Sunnyvale with Beck - hopefully a trip to the UK will ameliorate my regret in missing that [...]
Cilantro of the web
May 15, 2007 – 6:45 pm
Trying out the OPML Editor again, pasting in an entry composed over at my OPML blog. “When the tool spits out some bundle of shining Deployment-Ready Code Artifact, do you get something that can be mashed up, styled, scripted, indexed by search engines, read aloud by screen readers, read by humans, customized with greasemonkey, reformatted for [...]
scribbling in ink
May 9, 2007 – 3:48 pm
This is a recurring issue for me: Although I’ve yet to find anything I actually like overall, I keep thinking I need some tumblelog software that’s more inviting for quick quips and quotes. Sometimes, the affordances of the WordPress posting page make me think I should really write more than a few lines [...]
i (heart) ficlets, microformats, and feed scrapers
April 5, 2007 – 2:00 am
I’ve really got to reiterate / call out a few points from that last entry: I ❤ making feed scrapers, although they’re sometimes a pain. I ❤ Microformats, for making scrapers easy. I ❤ Ficlets for using Microformats and making it easy for me to use their site as an API using just XSL and HTTP GET. I’d love [...]
a new direction
April 1, 2007 – 2:02 pm
Starting today, I’m going to commit to posting here twice daily! More hacks, more commentary, more snark, and more grousing! I’ll also be starting on that ten volume novel series finally! It’ll be a multi-generational romance story set just after the Singularity! … Yeah, sorry, that’s my crappy April Fools joke. I should [...]
Blog posting delegation and third-party auth
March 5, 2007 – 5:13 pm
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to post about, brought back to mind from Kim Cameron’s post on “Wrong-headed impersonation”: I wish that blog posting interfaces (ie. MetaWeblog API and Atom Publishing Protocol) offered a way to delegate blog posting to a 3rd party app (desktop or web) in such a way as to avoid [...]
