mozilla in today’s news and observer: Browser challenges Explorer (get the bugmenot plugin to bypass registration) #
there is one major weakness of hosting a webserver on a dhcp network: your IP address could change at any time. sometime last night after 10pm my cable modem was given a new IP address. which means anyone trying to…
last night when i finished checking my email, i slid my new laptop under the bed to prevent anything falling or stepping on it. i then proceeded to lean across my bed to plug the alarm clock back in (the…
it’s hard to know exactly when something starts. sometimes i can look back and say that because i did this one thing or had this one thought, my life to this point has been different. like identifying a fork in…
back in october this journalist/author, ron suskind, quotes someone from the bush administration as basically dissing reality: The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that…
i spent the majority of my night (hours, literally) trying to get urls in my editplus wiki that had looked like this: http://www.editplus.info/index.php/Main_Page to look like this: http://www.editplus.info/Main_Page which required digging into apache’s complex mod_rewrite module and plodding through some…
anton zuiker, opening the triangle bloggercon with a vanuatu tamtam Building a Community Around Your Blog ben macneil of trixieupdate.com talks about rewards, via the tpod sid stafford talks about enabling the long tail ed cone talks about networking via…
i preferred the beginning, where a selected trio of local bloggers discussed the community aspects of their blogs. listening to ben macneil talk about the uberpopular trixieupdate and rewarding users with regular photos was cool. it would have been nice…
To recap the saga from $895 of PAIN: after doing some research into the guts of my laptop, i discovered LCDS 4 LESS had the screen for my laptop at a much reduced though still painful cost of $495. they…
i just finished working on a neat referrer tracking page that displays which pages people are visiting on my site–and from whence they came, even decoding the keywords of search engine queries. check it out! how does referrer tracking work?…
actually i know nothing about journalism (except that wikipedia page i just linked to). but as i was washing my hands in the bathroom thinking over the second half of the blogging conference, i wish there had been a session…
back in the day, jason, jean, marianne and i would discuss what we thought were the “rules of blogging.” then we’d poke fun at ourselves and others for breaking them. as a result of talking about these rules, i sometimes…
if we see blogs in terms of conversations (a much overhyped metaphor as of late) what are the implications for journalism, now undergoing a transformation at the hands of bloggers? not only does blogging enable subject matter experts to bypass…
blogs will be the first place that news breaks, and the only place to go for serious, insightful reporting. local newspapers will be replaced with loose networks of local blogs. national newspapers will be driven to extinction by algorithms (e.g.…
today i wrote a stripped down html generator (in php, of course). there’s got a be a jazzier word than generator. you know something that’s the opposite of a parser. something that models and spits out a tree. it has…
Dissing blogging is like dissing communication. Making fun of blogs is like laughing at the masses and denying them their first amendment rights. Blogs are inherently an expression of free speech. They represent the use of technology to proliferate information,…
i’ve been up to a lot of reading and thinking and not much doing. xmlhttprequest is, since google suggest came out in the fall, about the hottest thing since sliced bread. i love reading people’s blogs saying, “why the fuss,…
mozilla in today’s news and observer: Browser challenges Explorer (get the bugmenot plugin to bypass registration) #
billion dollar disasters: how could north carolina possibly be worse than florida? (thanks jason!) #
i’m glad i can still catch up on commericals even though i don’t have a tv: Porn, Again (nesfw) #
nice: Computerworld SLAMMED by readers after printing Firefox FUD article #
O’Reilly to publish: Don’t Click on the Blue E!, a roadmap for switching to Firefox #
i gotta say, these illustrations are neat: How to Cut #
my favorite thrift store art makeover #
jane asks, “why foo and bar?” hmm, good question. i don’t know, i’ll look it up. and we discover: Metasyntactic variable (god i love wikipedia) #
hella effin’ cool: iPod Shuffle RAID #
there should be a way to place bets on how many days it takes before this hole is plugged: phishing idn hole in firefox #
this just blows me away: Four-year-old’s late-night drive #
OH MY GOD: Google Maps why so awesome?
new word: idempotent (meaning something like…actually i have no idea what this definition means) #
nice: See You in Hell, Valentine! #
katie m on the web: Ten reasons . . . to holiday in Iraq #
haha: I’m not going to Pat’s. Last time I was there I lost my diet root beer cherry. #
blast from the past: my masters paper enters USAID’s development experience clearinghouse (ironically, their server seems to be under some kind of incredible load, so the link above may not work–but feel free to “reread” it here) #
huh? weather underground radicals? Stewart, who once represented Weather Underground radicals and mob turncoat Sammy “The Bull” Gravano…
news of the psychosomatic: ‘Broken Heart’ Syndrome Is Serious #
took me longer than it should have: Sex With a Miner #
multimedia juggernaut: get any achewood strip printed in high resolution, signed and/or framed #
in the news: Bloggers gathering outside cyberspace #
yeah, this is hella cool: NameVoyager #
what the: Kung Fu Hustle (some sort of post-modern crouching tiger) #
triangle bloggercon pic: justin and jackson at 9am (thanks to ruby’s treo) #
brave new world: my photos on flickr (the bloggercon gave me a reason) #
i frighten myself: Hell Dance Party #
hell fucking yeah: you can sue but you can’t catch everyone #
i love my internet denizens: Hundreds of music CDs, zero dollars*, obtained legally #
Republican Family Values: Marcel-Keyes told the Post her parents have thrown her out of the house, stopped speaking to her and refuse to pay for college because she is gay. She said she loves her parents. #
headline of the day: An Architect’s Wet-Cement Dream #
the coolest stuff i’ve learned this week: using EditPlus as WinSCP’s external editor #
in my neck of the woods: measure snags blogging conference mastermind #
way to take stand: But I do believe that homosexuals are subject to prejudice and that they are forbidden the same rights and safeguards that heterosexuals enjoy, including the right to marry. That, in my book, is wrong. #
OH NO THEY DIDN’T! Rate My Poo (my eyes are watering that’s so awful!) #
wow, this looks cool: The Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home #
quote of the day: In my work at Microsoft [I’ve written] a number of very key memos (Bill Gates) #
tonight: chapel hill blogger meetup and my first unc basketball game evar #
excellent cartoon: I double-reverse googled him! #
dooode! what is wrong with Blogger? it is sooo slow. wordpress may sooner be on my horizon. #
wow. thanks for the props #
sheee-it. thems a lotta nekkid women #
hi-larious! the daily show on bloggers (quicktime required) #
wikipedia article of the day: Gentrification #
i’ve posted on West Rosemary Developments over at orange politics #
perhaps the cutest tpod ever? Roll up your sleeves… #
this should be good to see: Moog (click the link on this page to see the trailer) #
damn. sucks to be paris hilton #
hell yeah! god is an abortionist: Unintelligent Design #
buzzword: ajax: asychronous javascript + xml #
so you mean blogging? “gonzo journalism” — in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story #
oh dear: Alice in Doggieland #
hehe: Penis models wanted #
image of the day: on top of Washington Monument #
excellent, now we’re talking: The Crackers #
whoa, neat: build your own silkscreen #
cool, literally: manmade ice towers #
behind me in line at weaver street market: jd samson of le tigre #
previously tonight: chapel hill blogger’s meetup #
design kids, eat your heart out: the eleventh of may (internet explorer users: download firefox) #
wikipedia article of the day: Fundamental attribution error #
such amateurs! but what’s the rate of swear words per minute? sideways is clearly the champ with one swear word every 62.5 seconds, whereas in the aviator we had to wait a staggering 81.6 seconds between swears. #
never heard of it (till last night), but wayback says tabulas has been around since at least may 2003 #
it’s gonna be an xmlhttprequest world: Very Dynamic Web Interfaces #
the gloves come off: katie m calls me out as a prescriptivist #
this made me chuckle: You’re a Seven… #
i love how the new highway font has it’s own website: ClearviewHwy (only a blog would have been cooler) #
holycrap, Richard M. Stallman has a blog? #
use EditPlus for taking /and highlighting/ your notes #
holy crap, jason lays the smack down on ala president Michael Gorman #
something i missed in 2003: Urban Tribes (thanks ruby) #
mmm… yeah… you see we’re putting the cover sheets on all tps reports before they go out #
to read later: The FUD-based Encyclopedia #
oh snap: overlaying GPS data on Google Map plus a screencast by john udell demontrating the the effect in a walking tour of keene, nh #
to read later: Community Blogging #
quote of the day: When techies burn out, they tend not to do strange things. They are, by nature, already a few degrees off plumb. So they revert to the ordinary. #
god america, get a fucking clue: School Board Bans Photo Of Girl Wearing Tux update: meanwhile, Governors Work to Improve H.S. Education #
book to read: The Art of the Start #
relevance more important than accuracy in contemporary journalism: Whither The Wall Street Journal? #
my latest post on orange politics: The Grocery Shopping Project: Whole Foods or Whole Paycheck? #
from cyberjournalist.net: A Bloggers’ Code of Ethics #
