Monthly Archives: May 2005

Theme change…

May 31, 2005 – 11:47 pm

Theme change not yet complete, but looking good. It’s a widened version of Clemens Orth’s Relaxation_3column, itself a derivitive of John Wrana’s two columned Relaxation theme. I found it on the WordPress Codex, and though it was among the first group I looked at, I dutifully clicked through to every other three-columned theme listed there.
Anyway, [...]

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Bad Movie, Verboten Subject?

May 31, 2005 – 10:35 pm

I’m embarrassed to be in the middle of Fantasy Mission Force, a kung fu movie that demonstrates a brand of Asian humor that I haven’t yet learned to appreciate. I’m watching it because I’m a sucker for Jackie Chan flicks and Netflix makes it too easy to queue up bad movies. David Chute wrote the [...]

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Global Threats, As Seen Through Eyes Of Movie Producers and Insurers

May 31, 2005 – 4:16 am

Jonathan Crowe points out this Risks In Global Filmmaking Map by Aon, the entertainment industry insurance company. Go view the PDF or a full-size PNG for all the details.

Technorati Tags: aon, industry, entertainment, filmmaking, insurance company, map, risk

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Lunch at Burdick’s

May 30, 2005 – 10:29 pm

Treated Mom to lunch at L.A. Burdick’s in Walpole today. The food at Burdick’s is always remarkable, but this time I got a decent photo of it.
I’m calling the plate in front a real tuna salad. Yes, those are strips of medium-rare tuna, but it’s the pickled onions that delighted me. In the middle is [...]

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WordPress Stats Goodness

May 29, 2005 – 9:35 pm

Work on my bstats plugin continues. I’ve added recently commented posts tracking, begun work on a usage graph, as requested by Richard Akerman, and put together an interesting way to track usage of the Google ads. I’m using the Google ads to figure out how to best use them on another project later. I think [...]

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Of WordPress Tags, Keywords, XML-RPC, and the MovableType API

May 28, 2005 – 11:58 pm

WordPress’s XML-RPC support looks pretty good. Heck, it supports a half dozen APIs and works well with ecto … except for tag support, which is my only complaint with it so far.
The Movable Type API supports a ?keywords? field that I’m thinking can be hijacked as a ?tags? field instead, but while ecto sends the [...]

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bstats Plugin

May 27, 2005 – 4:32 pm

I’m more than surprised that there’s no (decent) stats plugin for WordPress, but that hasn’t stopped me from writing me own. It’s called ?bstats,? and I’ll release a beta soon. In the meantime. the ?today’s most popular? list comes directly from this new plugin.

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One Step Forward…

May 25, 2005 – 7:30 am

I thought I was real smart when I modified the tags plugin to support integration with Technorati. The code was simple, just look in the tags.php plugin file for the foreach statements that run through the tags names and turn them into links on the page and change the $tags[] = statement to look something [...]

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Nuclear Test Site Tour

May 25, 2005 – 4:53 am

The above image is my followup to my Nevada Test Site Tour post from last month and comes courtesy of Adam Schneider’s very useful GPS Visualizer (you really need to see it full-sized, though). I still don’t have a cable to connect the ancient Magellan GPS I used to a computer, so I manually entered [...]

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…And Then You Realize You Wasted Your Life

May 24, 2005 – 5:32 am

I think I’ve been avoiding commenting on this issue for weeks because it hits so close to home. First I read it in BiblioAcid, then Jenny Levine picked it up, then Richard Ackerman picked it up at the Science Library Pad: library catalogs are broken, and there’s no amount of adding pictures or fiddling with [...]

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Vonage CEO Interview Makes Me Feel Old

May 23, 2005 – 4:23 am

Engadget’s interview with Jeffrey Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage gives an interesting peak into the world of the baby bells, through the eyes of an upstart. Citron dishes about the competition, stomping AT&T, working deals with the bells to make 911 services work, and a possible Palm version of their softphone.
Most interestingly is his [...]

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Blog Software Switched

May 22, 2005 – 6:10 pm

I’m almost ready to call the first stage of my WordPress migration done, except it looks like the comment submission forms aren’t working. While I’m working on that, please note the new feed URLs: RSS 0.9x, RSS 2.0, and atom.
Update: Found a reference to the comment bug on the WP support site and in their [...]

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Switching Blog Software…

May 20, 2005 – 8:39 pm

I think I’ve finally decided to go to WordPress after all. I tried doing it too quickly last time and it almost worked, but I switched back when I realized I might need more than 15 minutes to figure out how to use WordPress in production.
Since then I’ve found a set of plugins that [...]

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Crime and Privacy on Google Maps

May 20, 2005 – 3:38 am

Annalee Newitz last week posted a column on people’s fear of privacy loss as a result of Google Maps. Her point:
So while all these people are wringing their hands over how simple it is for strangers to discover the color of their roof on Google, we forget that we can already be tracked everywhere [...]

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Eating My Way Through San Francisco

May 19, 2005 – 4:27 am

San Francisco is a great city for a conference. It’s also a pretty good place to get lunch. The following is poorly written and incomplete. Well, at least it’s something.
Sunday
I was a little surprised to find Johnny Rockets on Jefferson St. serving breakfast, but they did a fine sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich all the [...]

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