Movable Type 2.64
With only one glitch (must use existing mt.cfg and mt-db-pass.cgi files) the upgrade of this blog to the latest version of the Movable Type software, 2.64, completed without further incident, as this post … Read more
Technology
SearchBlog
As good as google is, searching for a specific blog post amongst the millions of pages indexed by their service often results in not finding what one is looking for. The problem is … Read more
Bruce Sterling Interview
Declan interviews scifi author Bruce Sterling in a wide-ranging conversation that covers privacy and privacy issues from a variety of perspectives. From looking at the very meaning of privacy, You have more privacy … Read more
Power of CSS
Zeldman points to a pretty nifty trick cooked up by Stuart Robertson over at Design Meme. With just a couple of lines of code, mousing over a paragraph causes all links in that … Read more
First Post at New Host
Welcome! This is the first post at my new hosting service, pair.com. Actually, I’ve been using pair to host glowrocks.com for almost as long as my other ISP (to be named once I’m … Read more
How Google Works
As one with more than a passing familiarity with unix server design and sys-admin issues, I found this in-depth article describing google’s server architecture a fascinating read. While the emphasis is on the … Read more
Google and Blogs
I’ve been thinking about this notion that google might start segregating blog search results. I have questions about how they would be able to tell a blog from “regular” content. Also, while granting … Read more
Standards Good
Thanks to a tip I found at Dive Into Mark, both of my RSS feeds now validate. I was also pleased to find my CSS page validates, though it does generate some warnings … Read more
News Reader Clients
Here are some quick thoughts on various news RSS news aggregators I’ve used or looked at in the past few months. This is in no way an exhaustive, feature by feature, detailed review; … Read more