Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had some serious Perl/CGI/MT problems earlier and couldn’t post, and you all couldn’t access the comments. Not overly thrilled with my host at this moment, to be honest. Especially when I see indications of a machine that’s overly burdened. The problem with my host is the same problem with […]
Category: Technology
Fooflah
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mark Pilgrim is a bit testy about the removal of certain elements within the XHTML 2.0 spec — specifically the *cite element. I checked around the forums associated with the XHTML working group’s effort. From what I can see, looks like the removal of cite may have been an accident. Still, even if the […]
Say that three times fast… I’ve made a minor change to the Backtrack code that should allow any weblog that supports a variation of [ping)?__mode=rss to work, and that returns valid RSS. This is implemented by default with Movable Type’s trackback, including the stand alone TB server. And, this also now includes Sam Ruby’s weblog, […]
Movable Type tips and tricks
So, how do you like the new look, eh? Still playing a bit, but it’s getting there — blue/green for sky and water; tan/rust/brown for earth and fire; gray/black/white for air and snow. I’ve also been exploring different things to do with Movable Type; this weblogging tool is amazingly versatile. The Trott’s have left all sorts […]
Tiny thread, small needle
In The Third Generation of Weblogging I wrote the following about ThreadNeedle: I discovered that my original concept was infeasible because of the space requirements and the forced centralization. Now, with trackback and increasing uses of other technologies, we’re starting to see ‘threadneedle’ take form, and we’re finding that what was wrong with my original concept is […]
