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Too bad. The wireless tree was a great idea, but Yahoo making a donation on my behalf to an anti-gay group is a definite deal-breaker. The Times Neediest Cases would have been a far better and appropriate recipient.
Linux Today - NewsForge: BSD Developers Speak Out on SCO Campaign
MovableType spam vulnerability I still think you should just remove it or replace it with a dummy.
The Register: Toddler wounded in Segway hit-and-run
Damn jumping girls.
Mimi Ito, anthropologist and spouse of Joi Ito documents her kids' lunches each day on her bento moblog. I don't know what half this stuff is, but it all looks pretty delicious.
Seen at random($foo), originally at freeway blogger:
movabletype.org : Support Forum
mt-send-entry.cgi enables spammers to use your blog to send spam. Until there's a fixed version your best bet is to remove it completely. In my case, I replaced it with a simple CGI saying that the feature is disabled. You could also try renaming it, but the safest thing is still to either replace it with a barebones "sorry" or remove it altogether. The spammers have definitely set their sights on blogging tools as their next playground. Ultimately we'll get stronger tools out of it, I would hope.
eBay item 2203110144 (Ends Nov-22-03 17:45:00 PST) - CALVIN AND HOBBES ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING (2)
Here you have a clear example of very misleading advertising. Despite what the title of the listing would lead you to believe, these are not original C&H drawings by Bill Watterson; they're pretty lousy copies (Calvin's hair is completely wrong, for one thing) by (I assume) the seller.
The description offhandedly admits it:
But it also implies that these crappy drawings have some sort of collectible value:
But it appears to be working: there's been 13 bids already with a day left to go.
I can't think of anything that makes this explicitly illegal, but it sure ain't ethical. Would Bill Watterson's copyright allow this kind of thing?
Well, after having some trouble with the old digs, I am back, now with an actual domain name. I am also using the excellent hosting services at Cornerhost, and hopefully will be writing more to justify all this trouble and expense.
I'm sure there'll be some broken links and all as I complete the move. I haven't even begun to get the old templates and images over from the old server, so image links in the archives are going to be broken for awhile. Pretty much any old links will be broken for a time, seeing as how I was unable to get the old entries to import with the same item ids as the old. MT, much as I love it, needs a better system for permalinks; the current id-based system breaks hard when you move from one host to another, as the export file has no id info in it whatsoever. I'm thinking of trying Mark Pilgrim's slug-based approach or perhaps the date-based scheme described byMár Örlygsson. Still debating which to implement.
On the other hand, not that all that many people linked to individual entries, (except for the you-know-what-America one, which I'll probably set up a redirect for.) So there shouldn't be too much breakage. Still, let me know if anything really obvious stands out.
Going forward.
UPDATE: Images now work, added a redirect for the "America page." I may just chuck incorporating template changes and do a redesign (in my copious spare time) - it's about time I got off the MT default templates anyway.
I don't get this. First we get Macworld on Mailsmith
"Put off some people?" Kind of a strange choice of phrase if you ask me. Look. If it's POP-only, I can't use it. All the mail servers I do business with do IMAP.
Then we get John Gruber on the same program:
Well, almost as odd as an major email client that still, at least 4 years after its initial release, still only supports POP. POP-only clients were pretty common way back when Mailsmith 1.0 came out, but in the intervening years, most of the major Mac mail clients have learned to speak IMAP. You'd think BareBones would want to get more people to buy the product. I mean, it's not like I'm asking it to talk to Exchange servers or something. I'm not so much breaking into conniptions as I am shaking my head in bewilderment, and the only explanation I cam come up with is that, given their tone, Mr Gruber and the folks at Macworld think that either:
1) IMAP is written in Cocoa, not Carbon; or
2) it is somehow associated with Microsoft.
Ok, so we get another screed on the blogvolution from the guy who just swore he'd given up this sort of thing:
so I read it, think that it's the usual cheerleading advertisement, and scroll down the list in NetNewsWire to Eschaton, and soon I am engrossed in Atrios' as usual trenchant commentary, and it hits me:
It's not that I don't like blogs, it's that I'm sick of bloggers writing about blogs and blogging.
What do I mean? Endless self-congratulatory whining about how the Big Media that blogs will crush don't mention you in their articles. Poor Chris Lydon. Has to read a story in the NYT about politics and it doesn't mention blogs! Not ONCE! Jesus, talk about a single-interest group. Hey, the new breed is taking over, man. It's the people, man - like Jeff Jarvis over at that hotbed of populism Conde Nast, or Chris Lydon at Harvard, the People's University.
Hey, if Big Media are so fucking clueless, why do you care so much about what they think? You're like a bunch of broken records (or mp3's - The Man Can't Bust Our Music, Dude.) Find something to write about besides blogging, for Christ's sake.
Good Lord, he's right. Thank God for Dave Winer. I can't understand why no one has made this truly vital point before.