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Technology

FileZilla Gotcha

Enough with the BS, let’s talk something useful. I found this last week that Filezilla 2.2.1b (and earlier versions) will truncate files when uploading several directories at a time. I discovered this first when I found the Trackback.pm file was truncated. Then when I was trying to port the old entries into the Semantic Web […]

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Technology Weblogging

Visual hints and clues

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. At Burningbird, I modified my Movable Type template to display a small graphic associated with the subject (category) of a posting next to its title. Those who are less interested in my technology writing can then skip postings with the associated binary graphic next to the title; those who are […]

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Technology Weblogging

Recent Comments Trackback – Introduction

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My weblogs show a Recent Comment/Trackback list that I’ve implemented using SQL and PHP rather than MT tags. The main reason I didn’t use tags is that I filter comments to showing only those that are on posts 30 days old or newer. This helps focus comments on current conversations, […]

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Internet

Transferring domains

Netcraft started a bit of a panic with an ill-considered writing about a new ICANN ruling that if a registrar or domain owner doesn’t respond within five days to a request, the site can be transferred automatically. I noticed that Dorothea just wrote on it, as have others including Kottke. But as Kottke found out the ruling doesn’t make your domain […]

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Burningbird Technology

You might see this

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. You won’t see this. It doesn’t exist. Or at least, it doesn’t exist – yet – in the new Burningbird home, but does in the old. I had hoped to be farther along in the transfer, but limitations in the software in the shared environment are slowing things. Rather than […]