Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There is some form of security problem with WordPress 1.5, and the developers haven’t identified it. Since Wordform is based on WordPress 1.5, I’ll have to try and guess what it is to fix it–if I am vulnerable to whatever it is. I’ll be providing one more release of the […]
Year: 2005
Ajax, the manly technology
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Seems that O’Reilly has had another one of its invite-only summits, but this time about Ajax. If you’ve missed hearing about Ajax, it’s the web development equivalent of tags (as taxonomy) and metaformats (as semantics). This is part of the technology that makes America, well, America. A new twist, though: […]
Defining fault
The focus on ‘fault’ in the last post was inspired, in part, by the first sentence I read in a weblog post recently. It said: It’s all Burningbird’s fault. When I first spotted it, my reaction was one of feeling flattered rather than angered. I hadn’t thought I had so much impact on the world […]
I’ve walked through cracks in cliffs before, but never a crack in the ground; not with dark and hidden pockets just out of view, against a background of damp, dripping cold. I started to pass through but stopped, just after entering, and couldn’t continue. There is this little primeval monkey in the back of my […]
Perfect timing
After all the discussion we’ve had on blogrolls and the problems associated with “top” lists, and the headway we’re starting to make on understanding of the problems associated with links and popularity, to read about this at Dave Sifry’s is equal parts disappointment and amazement. With the AO/Technorati Open Media 100 list, we are honoring those individuals […]
