MovableBlog: Asides: February 2004

Redesigning weblog comments forms Just because something—even weblog comments forms—has been done the same way for a long time, that doesn't mean it's the best way. [#]

HTML considered harmful to airport terminals No alt attributes in the img tags, font tags. So sad. [#]

The other side of the #joiito keys story Other side of the ocean, that is. [#]

Can't find your keys? Maybe #joiito can help [#]

Making money with weblogs Evidently it can be done. [#]

How to create a blackhole email server The point's academic for me, since my host has a blackhole, which I have set up for undirected email. (That should cut down on the offers to design my company logo.) [#]

February 12, 2004

RSS vs. Atom Covers no new ground. Well, except for the fact that the weblog is about sex. [#]

How to set up Atom feeds on your Blogger weblog Or: how to get Richard to consider reading your site regularly. [#]

Roland is looking for a 3rd party ad service Ads that he could resell as well. [#]

February 11, 2004

Bandwidth saving tips for your MT weblog I'd be interested to see how the next version of MT approaches the amount of HTML and graphics the CMS delivers over the wire, since MT is, on some of my sites, the most accessed URL (sad but true). [#]

February 10, 2004

XOXO [#]

FireFox gives the middle finger Would have been even more clever if they kept the name as FireBird (get it? get it?) [#]

Make a sale without a script It's just interesting how the word "blog" or "weblog" does not appear in the article. [#]

Your password protected weblog (or site for that matter) might have its URL catalogued [#]

Shelley compares Wordpress to ExpressEngine And where there's a lengthy post about Wordpress, there's Matt. Matt's been helpful whenever I've had questions for him. [#]

The Web is flat External links are not as prevalent on non-weblogs and non-search engines. Sites that don't link to other sites become "castaways". [#]

List the last 10 authors in your MT weblog using the MTSQL plugin Code that works. Thanks David! [#]

February 9, 2004

Movable Type sucks Erik at least admits that "sucks" can be seen as a sensationalist word. [#]

Pinder says that, while they're at it, the next name for the standalone Mozilla browser should be Chinese Democracy Browser [#]

Using PHP and XSL Will no doubt come in handy. [#]

XSL stylesheet to transform Atom 0.3 to RSS 1.0 Credits and ToS. [#]

Alphabetical archives for MT [#]

paranoidfish wants entry-specific time zones in MT Makes sense to me. For what if I a frequently-travelling businessman with a weblog with only author, often blogging from a different time zones, but wanting to keep the most-recent entry on the top? [#]

Five habits for successful regular expressions [#]

Regex advice weblog Sometimes I learn things better if they're in weblog form. [#]

February 8, 2004

Stephanie's PHP backlinks code [#]

Referer linking I surprising amount of people are correctly spelling "referrer" these days. Not me, however. [#]

Regular expressions examples Came in handy recently when using it to scrape my fantasy hockey pool's game results page into RSS. [#]

Photo albums in MT [#]

My most-recent authors code doesn't work Does anybody have any ideas that involves a minimum of plugins (as cool as plugins are)? [#]

February 6, 2004

Transparent PNG menu in CSS An experiment, which looks beautiful in Mozilla. [#]

Search your MT weblog for past entries using Opera 7 [#]

Writing to avoid Pagerank More hand wringing over unwanted traffic. [#]

Futurama quotes from the command line For those with a Unix shell and some free time. [#]

In defence of #joiito [#]

In defence of Movable Type [#]

Electronic voting does not allow one to spoil a ballot An expression of voter's will—one that, if intentional, expresses a belief that either the vote or the candidates lack legitimacy&mdas;that e-voting takes away. [#]

Minimize window to tray I can see myself getting so addicted to this that I expect computers other than my own to have it (like with using forward-slash to search inside a web page in Mozilla). [#]

Undocumented MT tags [#]

Install MT locally on your XP box Doesn't require Windows Services for Unix. [#]

February 5, 2004

Introduction to FOAF [#]

Previous and next entry in a category plugin for MT [#]

Access control in PHP The print version may be more scroll-friendly. (I am consistently impressed by programmers and those who can write in a accessible way about programming. I would write a weblog about my experience in learning how to program in PHP if I didn't already have the basics covered.) [#]

I would like to publicly apologize for my previous misstatement. There are not 9 reasons for adopting Atom. There are 11. [#]

John reviews some Chinese-language input software (Crosspost.) [#]

Ben Hammersley explains his opium habit [#]

No centenarians from Beverly Hills at cleveland.com, please. That's the fake info I put into newspaper sites asking for my personal info. But if you're actually 104 and surf the net and believe in putting your real birth year, well, good luck to you. [#]

Who will validate the validators? Broken validators is not a problem limited to CSS. [#]

"Blame the user" But as Miriam correctly notes, because software and hardware engineers speak their own language, they're the ones who created this demand. [#]

February 4, 2004

RSS will eat itself Or, the 9 reasons to switch to Atom. [#]

Secure RSS requires SSL and Basic authentication Roland reports that FeedDemon and NNW can do this. [#]

Mt-Textile 2.0 officially released [#]

Frontend editing with MT [#]

Japanese weblog about MT I can't read Japanese—a little Chinese, maybe, but that's not good enough—but that's where I got the last link. [#]

How to move your MT weblog to a different host 19 easy steps! [#]

How to avoid a website I used that to avoid reading a certain blogger's site, but it was causing problems reading other sites. (One edits their hosts file at their own peril.) [#]