MovableBlog: Asides: August 2003
August 30, 2003
An argument for the Dvorak keyboard [#]
August 29, 2003
Reports of email's demise are premature [#]
Mark Pilgrim on the snake oil surrounding XHTML, CSS, and the "Semantic Web" 
Sadly, there is no mention of cousin Walter in the article. [#]
August 27, 2003
RSS Lurking Watch your favourite writers edit their weblog posts. [#]
August 26, 2003
Apple good, PC bad Roger Ebert on why Macs are associated with the good guys and PCs with the bad guys. (Link probably not permanent.) [#]
August 24, 2003
Extend the columns of your TypePad blog to the bottom TypePad Pro users only, alas. [#]
August 23, 2003
Don Park's wife is a better spam filter than SpamBayes [#]
No Outlook Tim Bray compares a few email apps that aren't Outlook. I still use Yahoo! for most of my email, but may make the switch soon full-time to Thunderbird. P.S. Mutt sucks. [#]
"Information wants to be free" but all others pay cash. Yeah. I would have said "Information wants to be free, but people want to charge for it." Of course there's the small matter of the different meanings of free, depending on capitalization. This might be a good time to mention that I'm considering Google AdSense for this site. [#]
August 22, 2003
Extreme Programming now legal in Canada What, you haven't heard? [#]
Mena reflects on weblogging "technology" Douglas Adams said 'How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.' [#]
Image Replacement Articles [#]
CSS Photo Zoom I just love how weblogs are pushing the edge in terms of web design, and how it's enabled designers to share their tips with the world. [#]
Email is Dead, Long Live Email! Private feeds huh? That gives me an idea for the weekend which may help introduce syndication to a friend I'm evangelizing it to. [#]
RSS will replace email as Internet publishing medium Fine. As long as it doesn't replace email as a communication medium, more specifically as a medium to communicate privately thoughts that take longer than 5 minutes to write out. (IM works better for the ones 5 minutes or less or for 'conversations'.) [#]
August 21, 2003
Visualizing how wikis work Yeah, but where is the site visualizing how installing a wiki works? (Sorry, that was bitter: it took me 5 tries with 3 different wiki software packages to get one up and going.) [#]
Mark Pilgrim: "Trottliness may be next to godliness, but..." [#]
Tagged Message Delivery Agent ends spam [#]
Simon is addicted to tabs His blogging technique is similar to mine, except I use bookmarks for the remotely interesting stuff then filter them out into my blog(s). [#]
Linus Torvalds: the people at SCO "are smoking crack" It's cool that he actually said that. [#]
Are open-source companies beating Microsoft in customer service? [#]
MT and Perl Upgrades Shirley documents how she's solving her MT installation woes. [#]
Movable Type and timezones Timezone should be a per-author setting, not a per-weblog setting, because of multiple authors from different timezones. [#]
August 20, 2003
Data validation vs. syntax validation [#]
The Semantic Web isn't a crack-addled pipe dream of a few academic naifs [#]
Pilgrim on whether RDF should be included in Atom [#]
W32.SoBig.F@mm (email) virus removal tool My host sent out a detailed email to me with not only how the virus works, but with removal instructions. [#]
Why feeds will replace email [#]
Anil Dash on 'low-threshold links' [#]
Aggregators attack info overload Well, it contributes to info overload for me. [#]
August 19, 2003
Towards better technical support [#]
How weblogs, RSS and IRC changes time usage [#]
"Free" wireless Internet at YVR [#]
Sun's rise and fall No mention in the main article of Java. [#]
RDF for Chickens Bottom photo. Very silly. [#]
Rapid pace for of development Mozilla Firebird Summarizes some of the latest additions to the Fb feature set. The style switcher, which I have currently installed as a plugin on an earlier nightly, is very cool. [#]
August 14, 2003
...and when Google *is* broken, they fix it [#]
August 13, 2003
MSFT abandons Outlook Express development And there was much rejoicing. [#]
August 12, 2003
Most of Dean's blog entries written by staffer Is that what Maureen Dowd is saying? Seems like it. [#]
Show last n authors who posted in multi-author weblog Uses the SQL plugin. [#]
TypePad review in the Detroit Free Press There's a TypePad and Blogger competitor that doesn't get a mention. Can you guess which company that is? [#]
August 11, 2003
The Kottke Error Jenkins actually unfairly singles Jason Kottke out. The belief that Google is "broken" is more widespread. [#]
Enabling Asian character support in MT [#]
Exploring the limits of CSS layout [#]
Adam Kalsey is looking for business blogs [#]
Demonstration of browser-side XSLT with MT generating the XML [#]
August 10, 2003
URL construction and redirection resources [#]
August 9, 2003
Tim Bray's word to the pedants re: namespaces [#]
August 7, 2003
How to use MT tags in TypePad [#]
August 6, 2003
Anil Dash: the magic is syndication, not RSS +1. [#]
August 5, 2003
Atom 0.2 is out Movable Type template for Atom 0.2. Movable Type Template for Atom 0.2 comments feed. [#]
Remember Me, Movable Type Some quick fixes to enhance your weblog readers' (and, specifically, commenters') experience. [#]
TypePad open for business Who are you to resist it, huh? [#]
August 4, 2003
BuyMusic rips off Apple ads The great weakness of BuyMusic.com's service right now is that it works only for Windows users who are running the Internet Explorer web browser. [#]
Configuring MT for better search engine placement [#]
Is 6A the new Apple? Er, that's a bit of a stretch. [#]
August 3, 2003
My post at Blogzilla re: MT XUL template in Mozilla No new information, but it's a comment-space if you don't want to post at the MT support forum. [#]
Tim Bray: Unflash Whenever I hear of a site redesigning, and I'm asked for my advice (hey, it happens), I sarcastically say 'more Flash'. [#]
Wiki backlash More along the '[insert trend here] backlash' theme? Actually, the first comment is rather convincing... [#]
Dumping BlogShares Yeah, I'm done with it too. Besides, I only used it to see who was linking to me. [#]
August 2, 2003
Getting started with FOAF Rich with links. [#]
MT feature request: XUL based rich text blog post window Check out a mockup and a quick UI spec. This would sidestep a most annoying bug in Mozilla variants. [#]
Faux photoblog using MT Mimics TypePad's Photo Albums. [#]
Beta names more interesting than final products' names Scoble nails it. The names for the various Windows betas totally rocked. [#]
August 1, 2003
TypePad Features and Pricing I'll have a mini-review of TypePad on Sunday. [#]
Open-source balloting software will prevent election-stealing Maybe, but I propose a more radical solution: no computers at all. Just paper, pencils, and humans (with scrutineers from each party) to count the votes. [#]
