The soothing ambient sounds and smiling faces might be enough to have you keep this site open all winter long, but then you’d have to explain it. » about 100 words
Sure, Matt says it’s Thank a Plugin Developer Day, but let’s hear it for the developers who just tagged WordPress MU 2.7! Not long ago there were still 300 files to merge, now it’s done and ready for the next version.
Thomas Von Staffeldt’s remix of Arne Jacobsen‘s “chair no. 7”. Above are gluttony, pride, and lust. They’re all on auction, but does that suggest avarice? » about 100 words
original_ann‘s hacked-together rig for shooting though the viewfinder of her Kodak Starflex has me wanting one. She has a beautiful set and points to the Through The Viewfinder group for more. » about 100 words
“What happens when a group that commands respect meets an audience that doesn’t give it readily?”
# mysqlcheck -p -A --auto-repair --optimize
wp_1_options
info : Found block with too small length at 17732; Skipped
info : Wrong block with wrong total length starting at 17776
info : Found block with too small length at 28776; Skipped
warning : Number of rows changed from 444 to 441
status : OK
Cleaning up the mess after a hardware failure can suck. This mysqlcheck output is from the wp_options table for this blog. Unfortunately, if the options table is unreadable, all of WordPress panics and fails to load.
I was using the dirty laundry metaphor in a previous post and wanted to extend it a bit by saying something like:
For the generation of children who’s parents have already posted their silliest and most embarrassing baby pictures to Facebook and elsewhere, being caught in your underwear is both expected and forgivable. Being evil, on the other hand…
Except I couldn’t find a link to support my claim. They’re out there, I’m sure, but I had to slog through stuff like this:
Patrick McGoohan, creator of The Prisoner, has died.
lbjay uses both the Tabulator and Semantic Radar Firefox plugins to do magic with RDF in his browser.
Way back in 2002 Dave Winer made a bet:
In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.
It’s important to remember that in 2002 people still wrote “weblogs” in quotes, as though they weren’t sure how to use the word. Winer won his bet in 2007. Anybody want to make a bet about 2014?
You might not have cared to know the recommended trucking practices for pigs or other livestock, but Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin is happy to explain all of that and more. She’s got videos too.
Perhaps you know somebody who made a new year’s resolution to improve the way they truck their livestock?
This news story from 2006 alerted me to a war I didn’t know anybody was fighting: the liberation of Karen State from Myanmar. The KNLA (Karen National Liberation Army) and KNU (Karen National Union) have been fighting for independence since the British left Burma (Myanmar) in 1948. What do you get a 51-year old rebel movement for its birthday? Here are their demands:
A while ago now I bought a Aiptek GO-HD 720p from Amazon for cheap. The FotoRamp review was helpful; links to actual raw video convinced me; but this video review was absolutely no help at all. You can’t track the brand on Flickr; but a search reveals a few photos (one, two), a video, and […] » about 300 words
I find a few sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches and chocolate milk do the trick, but I’d eat those every day if I could. I’m always dubious of claims to national consensus, but this is especially ridiculous. Is our national hangover cure really tomato juice and eggs? I thought it was hair of the […] » about 100 words
I have an old Lensbaby 2.0 (looks like this) that does a great job of making casual snapshots look like real portraits. But I also find it really difficult to get focus on my subject. Blame my bad eyes, my insistence on using it wide open with it’s shallowest depth of field, and simply sloppiness, […] » about 200 words
YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm.
Using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria and other illnesses. via Wired. » about 100 words
lcsh.info is gone, but there’s a lot to learn from this paper. I wish I’d seen that earlier.
Via Information Nation: How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with a Velociraptor? and How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight?. » about 100 words
Former 2008 Presidential Candidate Lee Mercer shares your concern for circumstances and issues. He wants to crack down on treason and recognizes Democratic concerns about expansion of executive power. » about 100 words
MySQL 5.1 is out as a GA release, but with crashing bugs that should give likely users pause. Perhaps worse, the problems are blamed on essential breakdowns in the project management: “We have changed the release model so that instead of focusing on quality and features our release is now defined by timeliness and features. Quality is not regarded to be that important.”
Still, people are finding inspiration in OurDelta and Drizzle. Competition from those braches/forks and criticism from the community are sure to help re-align the MySQL core, or provide a reasonable alternative if Sun/MySQL can’t deliver. In the meanwhile, the High Availability MySQL blog is worth following.
Timeline is a SIMILE project that uses Exhibit JSON (which you can create with Babel). » about 100 words
Longwell mixes the flexibility of the RDF data model with the effectiveness of the faceted browsing UI paradigm and enables you to visualize and browse any arbitrarely complex RDF dataset, allowing you to build a user-friendly web site out of your data within minutes and without requiring any code at all.
Just saw a cool demo of XForms and Orbeon Forms.
Zach is apparently too lazy to prep his own lectures for the last few days of his intro to web programming class. After bringing his students from zero to database-backed web-apps, he asked Matt do JavaScript and me to introduce WordPress as an application platform. The WordPress API makes it easy to write plugins that […] » about 300 words