MovableBlog: Asides: November 2003

November 30, 2003

Convert New York Times URLs into weblog-friendly ones See Adam's post for more details. Still in beta. [#]

November 28, 2003

Makiko has a checklist for those re-installing MT from scratch [#]

Google founders "have" a weblog Be sure to read the very bottom of the page. ;) [#]

November 27, 2003

Show last n non-consecutive days in an index template in MT For future reference. Doesn't work with the GlobalListings plugin though. :( [#]

November 26, 2003

Six Apart release security update re: mt-send-entry.cgi If you're not using the notifications feature, they recommend deleting the script instead of patching. [#]

mt-send-entry.cgi may have security hole I've deleted the scripts that appear on my server (I don't send email notifications anyway). See also this thread at the MT Support Board. There's a proposed patch available, but deleting the script so far seems to be the best option. [#]

November 25, 2003

Accesskeys and Reserved Keystroke Combinations So I do know what I'm talking about! [#]

Search tips from a librarian Librarians rock. [#]

Scripting in Chatzilla If I knew Javascript, and actually read it in some detail, I'd probably take advantage of it. [#]

November 24, 2003

SpamWait for MT Yet another technical solution to an economic problem. [#]

Mark: "RDF still interests me, in much the same way that rodeo clowns and Microsoft Certified Solution Developers interest me" [#]

November 18, 2003

Adam Gessaman checks out Audio Lunchbox, an iTMS alternative [#]

Interesting ideas using MT to generate CSS See also this one. I imagine one could even generate the CSS files by adding a Categories template, setting the Archive File Template to the CSS directory, and so forth. MT as presentation managament system? [#]

Anil: Syndication for TypePad's TypeLists coming soon Be sure to check out Mena's reply. [#]

November 17, 2003

The Atom API in 70 slides [PDF] Not-so-subtle dig at Clay Shirky free-of-charge. [#]

November 16, 2003

Jay is giving away some Sun hardware, among other stuff You pay only for the shipping. [#]

November 15, 2003

Mark Pilgrim: the current weblog spam solutions won't work He says it's an arms-race against an already very well-armed foe. No word yet on what his proposed solutions are. [#]

November 14, 2003

Porn sites hiding behind weblogs Clever little minxes. [#]

Enable Unicode in MT Pretty much how I did it (see here for results; warning, possible abandoned weblog, grammatical errors abound). [#]

November 12, 2003

Categories in Blogware Memo to competing blogging software packages: STOP TEMPTING ME TO SWITCH FROM MT! [#]

Safari 1.1 Hacks "Sorry, Opera users. I have nothing personal against either of you." [#]

November 10, 2003

Include Upcoming.org info in your MT weblog Requires the RSS Feed plugin. [#]

November 9, 2003

How Pinging Works I'm more and more liking the idea of pinging Blogrolling. Having donated to the fine folks at Six Apart, I can ping movabletype.org, but Blogrolling is a lot more decentralized (and possibly effective? Weblogs on blogrolls are already pre-screened by your weblog of choice!) of an updated weblogs listing. [#]

GlobalListings Plugin Show entries from multiple weblogs in one index, sorted by date. [#]

November 4, 2003

Free MT weblogs Like Blog*Spot, only slightly less lame. [#]