Do blog posts at least still show up in BLT?
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10:48:34 PM, Wednesday 18 June 2003
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I’m working on a couple of things right now that’ll be really neat, if they turn out right. Tease tease.
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10:21:30 PM, Wednesday 18 June 2003
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The ReportLab Toolkit is an open-source library for generating PDF files in Python. It looks like something I may be able to use.
[via LaughingMeme via Google]
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08:52:30 PM, Wednesday 18 June 2003
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Two years ago, some of us tried to do a sort of storytelling game in a Wiki, based on the Baron Munchausen RPG. It didn’t really take off, but the wiki is still there to play with and read old stories from. I don’t expect it to take off again, but Spur Of The Head Sonnetry can be attempted any time.
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09:57:45 PM, Tuesday 17 June 2003
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Mike: does this mean I should readjust your blog configuration? Or is it still well-suited to what you’ll be doing now?
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09:47:07 PM, Tuesday 17 June 2003
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I left my lights on again, so I needed to fix my car radio like I had before. Unfortunately, I’d forgotten the code, so I had to go through the trouble of finding it out again. That code, for the record, is 5-7-9-5. Thank you, and goodnight.
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03:57:47 PM, Tuesday 17 June 2003
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06:38:35 PM, Monday 16 June 2003
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04:35:51 PM, Monday 16 June 2003
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Jason Kottke: Seeing U.S. President George Bush and French President Jacques Chirac get all buddy-buddy at the recent G8 Summit inspired me to make a silent film about the sometimes-tender / sometimes-turbulent relationship of these two powerful men.
Go. Watch. Now.
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02:04:41 PM,
Monday 16 June 2003
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Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is playing in San Francisco tomorrow and Monday.
[via jwz]
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08:13:49 PM,
Friday 13 June 2003
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I now have a basic site statistics page up for m14m.net, generated with PySiteStats. It shows the activity over the past seven days. Updated nightlyish.
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04:58:28 PM, Friday 13 June 2003
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Oh, that’s convenient. The problem I was having with some Textile-generated links was a bug in PyTextile and has been fixed.
That means I’m this much closer to installing it for the other blogs ‘round here. If anyone wants it. I’m finding it much nicer than using HTML.
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03:44:53 PM, Friday 13 June 2003
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Band name: the New World Monkeys.
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07:07:01 PM, Thursday 12 June 2003
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viva
don't want no blue eyes
la loma
i want brown eyes
rica
i'm in a state
i'm in a state
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10:24:14 PM,
Wednesday 11 June 2003
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Definite point in favor of The Matrix Reloaded: Trinity breaks into a computer using a real hack. That's a very nice touch.
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04:36:52 PM,
Wednesday 11 June 2003
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Blog Post Analysis, from BlogStreet, is the most beautiful hack I have seen in... well, in a good long time. It can identify the posts on almost any blog that has permlinks. Among other things, they've used it to build an RSS feed generator that requires no configuration beyond giving them the URL of the blog, and confirming that it has identified the posts correctly. It's pretty sweet, is what.
[via Scripting News]
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07:38:03 PM,
Tuesday 10 June 2003
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Taming the Dock in OS X
[via Matt Haughey]
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06:39:04 PM,
Tuesday 10 June 2003
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Bill Bumgarner has some simple packages to add GNU readline and SSL support to Python under OS X. (They‘re included in other distributions, but for various reasons they aren’t in the version of Python that’s included in the Apple Developer Tools CD).
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04:22:45 PM, Tuesday 10 June 2003
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...you will find that some web servers wait until the command completes, thereby defeating the purpose!
The reason is that the background command still has stdout and stderr open.
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If you‘re using os.fork() yourself, try os.close(1); os.close(2).
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01:52:02 PM, Tuesday 10 June 2003
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Hmm… not quite.. but I wonder what this will do.
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01:44:14 PM, Tuesday 10 June 2003
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Okay, so this test post should go considerably faster, yo. (And should still get to blo.gs).
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01:40:35 PM, Tuesday 10 June 2003
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Argh… and then I forget a bit of code that I’d need to make my debug output useful at all.
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01:32:48 PM, Tuesday 10 June 2003
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Lots of annoying test posts particularly because it has to go through the whole process in order to work.
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01:31:33 PM, Tuesday 10 June 2003
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I’m finding that it’s taking a really long time for my blog entries to post. Is anyone else on m14m.net getting this problem? It’s a frustrating one, ‘cause it’s a bit hard to debug without making lots of annoying test posts.
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01:29:57 PM, Tuesday 10 June 2003
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Bruce Sterling: Just because it's the space age, it doesn't mean we're all going to end up in space.
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01:24:30 PM,
Tuesday 10 June 2003
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On the balance, did the communist revolutions of the 20th century tend to leave the people of the countries where they took place better or worse off than before?
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11:12:58 PM, Monday 9 June 2003
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Thinking about user interface for categorization of entries. I’d been thinking for a while that I’d have to try to autoguess categories if I wanted them to be at all useful, ‘cause the general rule is that housekeeping tasks, like entry categorization, just won’t ever get done. (This is one of my main guiding principles for Wobble, ‘cause it’s an eternal truth of how I myself work). On the other hand, I’m starting to think that it’s not a problem in this case. The teasmoke.net bloggers seem to have taken to the idea of categorization easily enough, and Movable Type has a much heavier interface for categories than anything I’m planning. Similarly, categorization happens so easily on Wiki that people get worried about too much of it. I think there’s a pretty good general rule demonstrated by LiveJournal: it’s always easy to make a comma-separated list of words.
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09:06:04 PM, Monday 9 June 2003
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In Matthew Thomas’s piece that I linked to in the last post, the stuff about category facets is particularly relevant. I like that he’s thinking of the whole thing in the long term—not just a couple of thousand posts, but twenty or thirty years worth of posts. The kind of hierarchical structure he’s talking about could be managed easy with the sort of light hierarchy system that’s used in ZWiki—essentially, for any page, you can define a list of parents. A page isn’t kept in just one spot in the hierarchy, but you do still get the advantage of being able to reasonably navigate down to something. Like the stuff about automatically suggesting splitting of categories (presumably there should also be interface to make that splitting easy. I have some ideas.) Part of my idea with Wobble is to make it as easy as possible to get more permanent information out of the weblog and into something more manageable, though of course that can never really happen completely automatically.
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08:59:57 PM, Monday 9 June 2003
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Jarno Virtanen of Python owns us has a pretty good explanation of why a calendar is not a good is not a good interface for browsing the archives of a weblog. In the process, he also refers in passing to Matthew Thomas’s post on the ultimate weblogging system. I’d do well to keep both of these in mind as I work on Wobble.
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08:43:35 PM, Monday 9 June 2003
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Steven Pinker: Not only is genetic enhancement not inevitable, it is not particularly likely in our lifetimes.
[via Pedantry]
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06:05:40 PM,
Monday 9 June 2003
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I don’t read very many books, but I skim a lot.
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05:44:26 PM, Monday 9 June 2003
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Tycho: Gelato is the Italian super ice cream developed - but never unleashed - during World War II.
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01:14:34 PM,
Monday 9 June 2003
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A fast CSV reading module for Python. Designed for CSV flatfile databases, but can also handle other field separators, so it could read the TSV formatted BLT feeds. The library’s written in C, so it’s good and fast (at least for something that parses text files). This looks like it could be used to build a BLT client. Possibly.
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12:44:14 PM, Monday 9 June 2003
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I’d have to say:
- Tom Baker
- Sylvester McCoy
- Peter Davison (Ha! Take that, Mirabai!)
- Patrick Troughton
- Jon Pertwee
- William Hartnell
- Colin Baker
With Paul McGann remaining unrated ‘cause he seemed good, and I don’t want to judge him based only on That Horrible Thing, and the guy from the movies remaining unrated ‘cause I haven’t seen the movies.
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11:06:13 PM, Sunday 8 June 2003
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Okay, this should have it working better.
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09:13:26 PM, Sunday 8 June 2003
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Okay, so that’s not quite working yet. Blah.
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03:47:28 PM, Sunday 8 June 2003
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