Page of Moss - bloglet for Thursday 30 January 2003

I like that Evan Williams does this too. _
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07:00:02 PM, Thursday 30 January 2003

"We don't care. We don't have to care. We're the phone company." _
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06:56:45 PM, Thursday 30 January 2003

Hmm... now, did that work? _
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03:16:21 PM, Thursday 30 January 2003

P.A.R.Q.O.Y.B.D.: Why does evaporation make things cooler? _
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09:47:18 PM, Wednesday 29 January 2003

Biggest Point Of Ugliness: all the data storage functions depend on knowing what an entry, for example, consists of. This is the first thing to change. _
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07:40:15 PM, Wednesday 29 January 2003

As long as any of the code in any module of Wobble is anything less then gloriously perfectly simple, I can't bear to work on any part of the program, even if the complex bits are well isolated from the rest of it. Currently, the complex and hairy part of Wobble is the storage system. So. Guess I better start in on the storage system. Simplify! Simplify! _
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07:36:10 PM, Wednesday 29 January 2003

If God is dead, who will save the Queen? _
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06:48:31 PM, Wednesday 29 January 2003

I've had this bloglet for somewhere in the neighborhood of three years. I think it was during essay writing that I'd originally written the program, though I'm not sure of that. So strange to think of it. _
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06:48:11 PM, Wednesday 29 January 2003

This is a test. _
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01:25:21 PM, Wednesday 29 January 2003

Just to draw wider attention to this: Mike's looking for a place to rent for a while in D.C.. If anyone can be helpful with that, get in touch with him, either here or more directly. _
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09:09:58 PM, Tuesday 28 January 2003

For your amusement and edification: Vladimir Putin and Dobby. Note the reference to satirical puppets towards the end of the article. _
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06:53:38 PM, Tuesday 28 January 2003

gModeler is a UML modeling tool for Flash, written in Flash. It's pretty hot, if you're into that sort of thing. _
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01:31:49 PM, Tuesday 28 January 2003

Hee! _
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12:40:34 PM, Tuesday 28 January 2003

Brendan O'Neill's "Being antiwar isn't about the oil" article in the Christian Science Monitor [via No War Blog] would be very useful if only he had taken the time to properly discredit the argument, rather than just denouncing it very loudly. _
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07:55:44 PM, Monday 27 January 2003

Check out this post on MetaFilter. It starts out with a link to a pretty neat annotated hypertext version of "The Waste Land" (cool in itself, for all I don't really like Eliot), and it keeps getting better as people post more and more similar sorts of things. _
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05:01:13 PM, Monday 27 January 2003

Woo! I got 512 megs of memory! Now I can... um... remember things. _
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02:17:24 PM, Monday 27 January 2003

Hmm... right, have to fix the comment backlinking problem. Now then, what was the right argument for grep there? _
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11:56:13 AM, Monday 27 January 2003

America when will you be angelic? _
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11:54:49 AM, Monday 27 January 2003

"It's a classic type of pun," Tom said swiftly. _
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09:55:27 PM, Sunday 26 January 2003

TEE HEE HEE. _
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04:28:31 AM, Saturday 25 January 2003

Woot. _
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04:09:08 AM, Saturday 25 January 2003

So I figured out why my code wasn't doing this one thing I needed it to do. See, I'd been looking for what the problem was with the current code that was making it break. But as it turns out, the real problem was that I never tried to tell it to do what I wanted it to do. At all. _
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06:12:30 PM, Friday 24 January 2003

Got it! Okay, there's a working Blogger API interface to bloglet at http://www.m14m.net/cgi-bin/blogletBloggerAPI.py

Your username and blogid are both the name of the directory where your blog is stored. It supports newPost, getPost, and getRecentPosts. ~~It doesn't support editing or deleting, 'cause that's too hard~~ (see below). It should work okay, but no promises. I'll probably be using it regularly, though.

If you don't understand any of this, just don't worry about it.

Update: I take that back. I still don't have support for deletion, 'cause I don't really like outright deletion anyway, but I managed to hack in some support for editing. That means that, if you have a Blogger API client, you can go back and edit your old entries on your blog (as long as they're still on the front page). It's kind of crude. I can't promise it will work right, and I half suspect that it will occasionally end up deleting your page, but it will tend to do essentially the right thing. So yeah, that's maybe kinda cool. One note: an edit won't take fully until you post your first entry after making the edit. This is a bit of a wart, but it's small enough and hard enough to change that I'm leaving it in for now. If you find any other bugs, let me know. _
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05:56:27 PM, Friday 24 January 2003

Sixth test. (Plus another little test.)
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05:50:19 PM, Friday 24 January 2003

Fifth test. (And now another test as well.)
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05:48:37 PM, Friday 24 January 2003

Second test. I think I'm building something here. (and maybe?) _
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04:16:06 PM, Friday 24 January 2003

This is a test of NetNewsWire's weblog editor. So... does it work? _
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04:08:24 PM, Friday 24 January 2003

Good advice if you're ever looking for help on a newsgroup, mailing list, or other online forum. What really amazes me, though, is how offended people get when you try to tell them this sometimes. _
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07:37:13 PM, Thursday 23 January 2003

In the addendum to this post, Languagehat says something that I've been wanting to say for a while. _
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05:38:00 PM, Thursday 23 January 2003

Be Vague. _
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12:36:11 PM, Thursday 23 January 2003

Also, have I mentioned how nice it is to have Tracy around and blogging again? 'Cause Tracy's cool. _
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02:03:01 AM, Thursday 23 January 2003

Most random? Hmm... well, November of last year was a good month for random... and this was pleasingly odd... but I'd have to say that this one is the winner, of the entries I looked at. _
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02:00:21 AM, Thursday 23 January 2003

I... don't really think there's anything wrong. There are things I'd like to change, but I don't really think there's anything wrong. _
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01:16:20 AM, Thursday 23 January 2003

I'd forgotten how good this album is. _
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10:12:51 PM, Wednesday 22 January 2003

at home, listening to Frank Zappa sing...

"A mountain is something
you don't wanna fuck with
you don't wanna fuck with
Don't Fuck Around!

Don't fuck with Billy
and don't fuck with Ethel
you saw what just happened
to the guy with the flies!" _
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10:10:54 PM, Wednesday 22 January 2003

I feel bad going to work severely sleep-deprived, as I did yesterday. (Indeed, I was almost falling asleep at a few points during the day). On the other hand, when, as yesterday, I also manage to clear most of my bug list, with clear and functional code, it's hard to feel too bad about it. _
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07:15:07 PM, Wednesday 22 January 2003

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