BurningbirdEnough 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]