Archive for January, 2003
Thank God Almighty, pings at last! Since this blog’s inception, I haven’t been able to automatically ping blo.gs and weblogs.com. MT would say it pinged, but I wouldn’t show up on either site. I noticed that I was able to ping from another MT installation on the same server, and realized that I downloaded the [...]
/133/pings-at-last - Blogging - 0 Comments - 2003-01-29
I’ve been taking class notes on my computer (and Palm m500) for quite some time now, but I’m always left with the question of how to format them so they’re actually useful later. Plain text has formatting issues, and isn’t easily malleable. HTML looks nice, but it’s hard to write on the fly without a [...]
/132/making-plain-text-useful - Computers - 4 Comments - 2003-01-29
Guess it’s a "freedom" kind of day. Here are a couple more things for yous guys to read:
Now Corporations Claim The "Right To Lie" documents the increasing trend in corporations to claim the same human rights afforded to living, breathing people. I didn’t know it, but corporations have only been allowed to donate money to [...]
/131/recommended-reading - Freedom - 0 Comments - 2003-01-16
I just read Eric S. Raymond’s Why I Am An Anarchist. Here’s a quote:
… A majority of the people themselves are too easily seduced into abandoning their own institutional protections against tyranny by the false promises and poisonous dreams of statist propaganda.
I’d like to have a little more faith in democracy than Raymond puts forward. [...]
/130/why-esr-is-an-anarchist - Freedom - 0 Comments - 2003-01-16
Here I go again, blogging about blogging.
Anyway, I was browsing the recently updated blogs, as I am wont to do when I am bored, and I came across Peter Lindberg’s blog. His latest post is about something new called GeoURL. Add a couple metatags to the front page of your blog (or any other site, [...]
/128/mapping-the-blogsphere - Blogging - 5 Comments - 2003-01-06
You might have notice the new black and white badges on the left side of the main screen. They’re so-called "blogstickers", and taste wonderful. Jen and I created the stickers you see here, but they have plenty on the site of various quality and chromatic variation. Through the wonders of PHP, you get a random [...]
/127/sticker-yer-blog - Blogging - 0 Comments - 2003-01-05
There’s a new article over at Ars Technica by Johnny Brookheart entitled Put down the mouse, capitalist pigdog! The title’s silly, but his letter is pretty well thought out. Worth the read.
/126/welcome-to-china-heres-your-firewall - Freedom - 0 Comments - 2003-01-02