This week has been quite busy both at work and at home, I haven’t made time to blog as frequently as in recent weeks. One of the things that I finally tackled was upgrading apache on this server from 1.3 to 2.0. All hail debian. The process was really smooth, because it was simple to […]
It is actually a bit of a story, and it began with upgrading my installation of gallery from version 1 to version 2. Gone in version 2, at the time, was syndication via rss of pictures. That’s originally how I had the pictures published to the right side of my blog. There’s an RSS plugin
Performancing has released what looks to be a cool Firefox extension that makes it easy to update your blog using the browser and a client-side WYSIWYG editor. If you’ve got a wordpress, movabletype, or blogger blog, it’s worth checking out. Now, I’ve got to implement an xml-rpc service so that I can use this.
When I scan through my aggregator, I don’t expect to ask my self “My sister is blogging about porn?” 😉
Sandy went through one recently and Tony switched his look yesterday. I really liked the layout for Tony’s blog, particularly the pictures in the right most column, so I decided to emulate it. CSS as usual, made this really, really easy. I’d appreciate any feedback, if you actually read posts on my site instead of
Scott Berkun, who designed and worked on the development of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 1 to 5, explains why he switched to Firefox. He has great praise for the design team, particularly those who have kept the browser focused on appealing to the mainstream user. “Firefox feels to me like what IE 6.0 should have
Someone’s finally tried to leave automated comment spam on my blog. I noticed this late Monday night and had to turn off comments as a result. I’ve put in some behind the scenes measures to prevent it and hopefully it’ll take care of it. If not, I’ll have to put in one of those funky
Yesterday I hacked together a quick script that lets me send photos to my blog and used these pictures to test it. Its real secure too – please don’t guess my secret email address for it – its not too obvious actually – but obscurity is no substitue for real security. You do have to
In case you haven’t heard yet, the Google Maps API has been made public. This opens up their mappping capabilities to more developers without having to rely on the hacks and workarounds you may have seen earlier. Here are my ideas for some useful applications: A map view of an address book type list. It