Sam has just had some difficulties subscribing to this weblog’s RSS feed. I checked the message he got, and looked at the XML produced by Blosxom. I’ve just added a <description/> tag and a <language/> tag (!) in the <channel/> section. I think that might be what was missing… Let’s see… P.S. Thanks Jon for [...]
Q: What do you get when you cross really simple aggregation with ‘messaging to spaces’ and ideas of “poor man’s” pubsub? A: The ‘jabberconf‘ Blaggplug – a plugin for Blagg that pushes RSS item info to a Jabber conference room (akin to an IRC channel) as they’re pulled in the aggregation process. This idea goes [...]
Nick Denton wrote an interesting article last month on how many hours people can, do, and should work in a week. It’s clear that he favours ’80%ers’ over ’120%ers’. I do too; having been in the fortunate position to do so, I made the move from a 5-day week to a 4-day week a couple [...]
I’ve been reading what some people have been thinking and doing about referers and backlinking: http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/linkback.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/05/03/udell.html http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/04/20.html#automatic_linkbacks http://radio.weblogs.com/0101221/2002/05/06.html#a197 (Leslie has been doing stuff too, but his main site is suffering an outage at the moment and I can’t get to the right link – get well soon, 0xDECAFBAD!). While reading, I’ve been playing around [...]
Yeow! ["im://jabber/bull@mancuso.org"].examples.getStateName (12) By ‘eck, it takes me back… A hearty congrats to Dave (and Jeremy and Eric of course). “This Bing!‘s for you.”
I forgot to mention, the little script I used to produce the calendar on the right is here.
I found a pointer on Dave W’s site to a survey of weblog tools. It’s a high-level but nevertheless interesting article that looks at some of the major weblogging software out there, and describes some of the features of each. It fails to mention Blosxom, though, which is a shame, although it is listed on [...]
In case you’re wondering why I’m using Blosxom instead of other fine weblogging tools like Radio Userland, Blogger, or Moveable Type, I’ll tell you. Not because I don’t want to pay the minimal (or non-existent) price; not because I think that one is better than the other, not even because I refuse free hosting for [...]
As a kid, I used to regularly re-arrange my bedroom at home, not because I was unhappy with the layout, but simply because I could. I think this trait has remained with me, as I’ve just completed a bit of a shake-up of this weblog, or rather, the mechanism(s) that make up this weblog. I [...]
Not a period goes by in the extended computing community without a juicy debate or two. This time it’s SOAP and RPC vs REST, on afterburn with a Google API in(ter)jection. I can’t remember when a single subject seemed to generate as much traffic on the O’Reilly Network Weblogs as this. There have been wonderfully [...]