But now I think it’s really working properly. What this means is that I’ve updated how blt works on m14m.net, and it should soon be able to produce proper poster_name fields. This won’t take effect right away—I’m going to wait a few days before switching to the new feed to make sure this one works as it should.
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01:16:59 AM, Sunday 8 June 2003
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Especially when they don’t even work. Blah.
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01:11:06 AM, Sunday 8 June 2003
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Sadly, I guess I am gonna have to make another test post to my blog if I want to see if this works. Blah. Sorry about all the empty content.
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01:04:13 AM, Sunday 8 June 2003
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Testing, 1, 2.
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11:19:43 PM, Saturday 7 June 2003
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The one year ago post brings to mind a question: what's the most average points per letter you've ever gotten in Scrabble?
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05:41:41 PM,
Saturday 7 June 2003
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A very happy birthday to Mr. Martin Marks!
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05:39:29 PM, Saturday 7 June 2003
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This is--you guessed it--a test.
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09:31:45 PM,
Friday 6 June 2003
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- I wanted to know if there was a Python equivalent to declaring a function synchronized in Java.
- I looked at the Python threading module
- I had an idea of how to do it.
- I searched and discovered that Guido expressed exactly that idea five years ago
This made me happy.
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03:53:47 PM, Friday 6 June 2003
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Cool! Rebecca Blood is going to be on KPFA this weekend.
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02:25:04 PM,
Friday 6 June 2003
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I think I’m in pretty good shape to update m14m.net blt pinging tomorrow. Or so.
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03:40:25 AM, Friday 6 June 2003
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So I finally tried some of the absurdly underpriced Trader Joe's wine the other day, and I must say, I am duly impressed.
(Which is not to say that it's, like, fantastically great, or anything. But I enjoyed it, and had no real complaints, and, well, for $2 a bottle, I'd ordinarily expect to have complaints.)
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01:57:49 AM,
Friday 6 June 2003
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Also, apologies to anyone who was kept from blogging by the m14m.net outage just now. (Though on second thought, that may only have applied to me.)
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01:23:49 AM, Friday 6 June 2003
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For anyone who’s been completely baffled by all the techy entries: what I’m doing, basically, is making the weblogging software on my site more reliable and a bit more powerful. Overall, it’s good. If you want to be sure you’ve caught anything that could be of interest to you, here are the features I’ve added, from a userish point of view:
- RSS feeds (syndication in Radio, Amphetadesk, NetNewsWire, etc.)
- Searching blog entries
- Blogger XML-RPC API (blogging from BlogBuddy, NetNewsWire, etc.)
- Entry editing
- Sidebar editing
- Date-based archive browsing
If you‘re interested in any of these things and didn’t catch how to do it the first time around, just ask and I’ll try to explain it more clearly.
There’s also some other nifty stuff that isn’t polished enough to be useful, but that I’m still working on.
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01:22:02 AM, Friday 6 June 2003
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Things I want for the new m14m.net blt feed script: gets blog information from blogletUtils.py, rather than from a database; updates a static file; includes a poster_name field. That seems easy enough.
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12:35:51 AM, Friday 6 June 2003
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Because of the blo.gs cloud interface, it should be possible to hook any weblog that pings blo.gs into blt. "Any weblog that pings blo.gs" includes all weblogs that ping weblogs.com, plus those hosted on blogger.com, pitas.com, or antville.org. It can include any Movable Type weblog, if the blog's owner wants it to.
It can't work perfectly. BLT provides more information than blo.gs, so it'll have to guess at the missing information. But I think I can make it do that pretty well.
Still leaves out comments, of course, but hey, what can you do?
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07:14:46 PM,
Thursday 5 June 2003
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And from there I find Orange, a more general data-mining library, also usable through Python.
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04:33:22 PM,
Wednesday 4 June 2003
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"Reverend is a general purpose Bayesian classifier."
And it's in Python. I wonder if it could be used to do some sort of blog entry category autosorting.
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04:30:11 PM,
Wednesday 4 June 2003
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David Weinberger is saying some very good things about embodiment and online social interaction.
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04:03:13 PM,
Wednesday 4 June 2003
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I quite enjoyed (if that is the word) Rageboy's two remixes-or-something of the DSM IV
[1,
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03:33:16 PM,
Wednesday 4 June 2003
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William Gibson: I've since decided that naming your novel after an old favorite song is one of those almost-universal impulses best avoided if you possibly can. (Another such impulse, according to Bruce Sterling, is the use of the word "song" in the title of any work of science fiction.)
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03:21:08 PM,
Wednesday 4 June 2003
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On She's Actual Size:I've noticed that it's considered sexy for women to act like cats, but nobody thinks it's sexy if women act like monkeys. This makes no sense to me.
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03:13:20 PM,
Wednesday 4 June 2003
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Ha! I can actually move incrementally from Bloglet (my current weblogging program, written in Perl, using no data structure more complicated than a text file) to Wobble (the new WikiWeblog sorta thing that I’m working on, in Python, with entries stored in a database and everything). The various support code for the web interface to Bloglet is substantial enough that I can use it to… basically make Wobble treat Bloglet as its weblog database until I’ve finished writing the new one. It’ll be a bit slow, but it means I can start out writing interesting user-facing stuff, like a viewer, templates, and a posting interface, and then later move on to writing a new storage system. I consider this more than moderately sweet.
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08:50:42 PM, Tuesday 3 June 2003
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Rogers Cadenhead is also thinking about bookmarks, and looks to be doing some interesting stuff. Not as transparent as what I was saying I wanted, but on the other hand, it works at all, which is more than I can say for my idea.
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04:28:34 PM,
Tuesday 3 June 2003
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On a web server, I can easily replace a static file with a script. For example, rather than generating an RSS feed separately and keeping it in index.rss, I can just have that url point at a script that generates an RSS feed by scraping my blog.
Now: why can’t I do that with my local filesystem? Why can’t I say: “Okay, operating system, whenever an application asks for foo.xml, I want you to run this script and give its output as the contents of the file?” Or, more specifically, why can’t I say: “Whenever a program opens .mozilla/bookmarks.rdf, run a script that converts my Safari bookmarks to Mozilla bookmarks, and use its output as the contents of bookmarks.rdf?”
This would let me transparently update my bookmarks between different browsers, which would rock. I’m sure if I think about it I’ll see other cool things I could do with it, too.
Hmm… as I think about it, this may not be so entirely impossible… isn’t there some way to have a device attached to a program? So I could have, like /dev/bookmarks, and just symlink bookmarks.rdf to it? I can see all sorts of ways for this to go wrong, of course, but I’m still halfway tempted to try it.
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03:50:07 PM, Tuesday 3 June 2003
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Hmm… connection refused, eh? One thought is that maybe I should ignore errors, in case the server is just down.
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02:30:16 PM, Tuesday 3 June 2003
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...again?
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02:28:30 PM, Tuesday 3 June 2003
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Hmm… I think I may be pinging blo.gs too now. Let’s see if it works…
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02:27:01 PM, Tuesday 3 June 2003
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Woohoo! I’m pinging weblogs.com! And all it took was… ::counts:: 10 lines of code. And most of that’s so I can make it general to m14m.net at some point. (Once I’ve got the bugs in the new posting script worked out.)
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01:01:54 AM, Tuesday 3 June 2003
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This is another test, ‘cause that first one didn’t work at all, ta.
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12:58:26 AM, Tuesday 3 June 2003
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This is a test. Funny how that works, eh?
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12:53:29 AM, Tuesday 3 June 2003
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from an interview in Word Magazine, referenced here
Word: Did you hear t.A.T.u.'s version of "How Soon Is Now?"
Morissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them.
Word: They are teenage Russian lesbians.
Morissey: Well, aren't we all?
This makes me very happy. It is the quote of... oh, the month, at least.
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12:08:28 AM,
Tuesday 3 June 2003
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Go read Aristotle on Blogs over at Languagehat. It is perfect.
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07:11:43 PM,
Monday 2 June 2003
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Twenty-two dollars and a box of chocolates was all she had left.
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02:45:58 PM,
Monday 2 June 2003
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I need this.
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01:26:19 PM,
Monday 2 June 2003
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This is pretty much the sweetest thing ever.
[via Leonard]
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04:04:54 PM,
Sunday 1 June 2003
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Those of you who fondly remember The Fool's Errand, one of the best puzzle games ever, may be as thrilled as I am to hear that the author, Cliff Johnson, is doing a sequel.
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05:11:11 AM,
Sunday 1 June 2003
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