Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m firing on all (one) cylinder today. Sam Ruby references a citation at Simon Willison, who quotes Tantek: “…we now have Trackback and Pingback to help automate generating comment hyperlinks to blog-on-blog commentary. While I certainly applaud these efforts at automating the plumbing, I must ask – why is there any distinction […]
Category: Weblogging
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I woke this morning at 3:30 and I was determined that at least for the next four days, I was not going to make anyone angry, or hurt, or disappointed. While most of my fellow webloggers from the USA were stuffing themselves on turducken, I was, instead, going to regale my […]
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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 […]
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, […]
I’m off to walk two trails today that have been long-time nemesis. But today, today, the relationship between us will fall, or rise might be a better word, from animosity to amicability. We shall part by day’s end, these trails and I, as friends. Before I go, I did want to point out two stories […]