Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It would seem that Google has changed its algorithms and webloggers no longer dominate. I checked my own name, Shelley, and found I’m an ignominious second pager now. Still, we webloggers are facing this algorithmic demotion in stride, with humor, and wit. However, the only way to know Google’s algorithmic change’s true effect, is […]
Category: Technology
Cats and computers
I’ve been having considerable problems with my Dell laptop keyboard. Several of the keys (SHFT, CTRL, and ‘c’) only work if you pound them, hard, and the ‘a’ key keeps repeaaaaaaaaaaating. Thinking that the keyboard needed cleaning, I grabbed an index card and started digging around underneath the keys. Cat hairs. Thousands and thousands of […]
Name that space
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The fluff about namespaces in RSS 2.0 seems to have boiled down to: the major version number should have warned everyone that this version of the specification isn’t compatible with previous versions. The solution: generate both sets of Userland RSS (0.9x and RSS 2.0) until aggregators can properly work with […]
PHP/MySQL Help
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My system has MySql 2.23.51, Apache 1.3, PHP4, FreeBSD, and I’m running into problems trying to update or insert into MySql with PHP. The update or insert works, but I get warning back: Warning: MySQL: Unable to save result set The change is saved, but the application breaks. No error […]
Consumer rights and RSS
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Yesterday was a disappointing technology day. I had hoped to use the position of devil’s advocate at the RSS-Dev group to see if we couldn’t get a firmer definition of what the group sees as its future direction, strategy, as well as specific reasons for use of RDF. I continue to see […]
