Changelog

Finished.. Thoughts coming soon.

Did you help buy Bush a PlayStation 2? Congratulations to those who contributed to this most noble cause.

I like simple designs. Crowded pages are distracting, they move the user’s focus from content to presentation. This usually makes finding content ona site a chore rather than the natural function of the site.

I appreciate sites like NTK, craigslist, and Google becuase content is presented in a clean, straightforward fashion. They make […]

Plugin code can be found here to convert fully-qualified URLs into relative URLs. This will help anyone who wishes to setup a staging site or a mirror of their MT site. Two versions are available, including a filter to add a “link_type” tag attribute to your MT tags.

Mean Mr. Mustard says that the Chechen guerillas are the enemy. He’s right. We (the world) is at war with those who would use terror to further their aims. That these people think such actions will help them in any way is mind boggling. However, I think Instapundit says that anti-warbloggers […]

So I took the GRE (general) on October 10th. Stated time for the official score report to arrive is 12 to 15 days. I want my report dammit! Ok, I admit, it’s a bit early to get mad about the whole thing, but I really want to know how I did. […]

I can’t do it… I just can’t stop tweaking my site. I think I’ve created and discarded on the order of nine distinct designs and layouts in the past month. Every time I sit at my computer, I tweak something. Every time I browse the web, I tweak something. I can’t […]

Auto Focus Punch Drunk Love Moonlight Mile Secretary Sprited Away

Must write grad school essay now… Cannot postpone inevitable any longer. Future hangs in the balance! Must write essay… Must write essay… Must wri… Oooh… Shiny things!

Scott Adams:

But once you start noticing that your historians are making stuff up and your figure-skating judges are rigging their events, and your priests are dating children and having better sex lives than rock stars, that’s what I call a bubble. That’s the cab driver giving you stock tips.

We’ve left the dotcom bubble […]

It seems that MT screws up lists… I hadn’t realised that MT is quite so enthusiastic about line breaks. I had imagined that is converted skipped lines to paragraphs, but hadn’t realised it inserted so many hard breaks. This made lists look really funny. To fix, I’m simply writing lists out […]

A quick recap of projects:

Trackback and comments - One or the other, or both… Haven’t decided yet. Wiki Integration - 0xDECAFBAD style integration would rock (see also Steven Frank). Blosxom Hacks - Blosxom + email posting + category tree + good archives + trackback + pretty URLs + everything else I can find!

On of the neat things about the web is that it fosters distributed conversations. There are several forms of this idea floating around, including referer lists, pingback, and trackback. I should also include comments in that list as well. However, I’ve noted several neat people intentionally don’t allow comments.

Sites that stick to […]

I’ve frequently tried to come up with a way to make my computer match my thought process. In particular, a means to keep track of all the electronic cruft that builds up over time (movies, music, documents, email, bookmarks, etc.). I’ve tried coming up with some idea of how this information might be […]

Finally saw Artificial Intelligence… I think Spielberg (and Kubrick) almost made a really good movie here, but didn’t quite pull it off. The ending in particular feels a bit strange and not quite right for the rest of the movie. I’m also a bit confused about why Cybertronics had its headquarters in […]

Is there anything better than French movies with Iroquois ninjas, Papal assasins (posing as whores), secret religious sects, bone-sword wielding nobels, and romance? Set during the French revolution? No, I don’t think there is! Ok, so maybe there are better things in life than Le Pacte des loups, but this movie is […]

The Scorpion King is a lousy movie. Not much else to it than that… Bad acting, cheesy as hell dialogue, mediocre production value, bad fight choreography, not to mention the soundtrack. What the hell is with the soundtrack… I have no problem with movies using modern music when making action […]

Much has been made lately about the latest update to Google. A lot of people are whining about moving down the ranks, but beyond that there seems to be some evidence that Google doesn’t weight non DMOZ sites very well anymore.

If this is true, I hope they fix it. But I think I’ll […]

My misson (since I’ve chosen to accept it) is to take the next step in infogeekdom: integrating my weblog with a Wiki.

The scheme is simple. Following in Steven Frank’s footsteps, I shall install WikiTikiTavi and use Les Orchard’s MTWikiFormat MT plugin.

More references:

Better living through regular expressions (Mark Pilgrim)

One last thought:

Why should all this […]

Blogging from the hip? I’m not sure I want people to blog while they drive…

update: I’m not the only one! Actually, he beat me by a month…