MovableBlog: Asides: August 2004
August 31, 2004
MT 3.1 released 
6A Professional Network, MT Plugin directory as a 6A site both unveiled. [#]
Joyce Clark fired for blogging It's been done. [#]
August 29, 2004
Putty security hole fixed this month Found out about it on my alma mater's Unix newsgroup. [#]
August 28, 2004
One percent of Internet users read news and/or weblogs using an aggregator Probably right, but aggregation isn't the coolest part about RSS. Syndication is. And publishing a weblog is more important than publishing an RSS feed of it. [#]
August 27, 2004
Atom API (Publishing Protocol) in Movable Type [#]
Sort a dictionary in Python Came in handy recently. [#]
Screen grab confab A small window into the projects designers and coders are currently working on. [#]
Phishing using Google Google redirects create a problem while solving another. [#]
August 26, 2004
Debugging PHP Pretty good intro, but it's just that, an intro. [#]
Tags are to 2004 what taxonomies were to 2003 [#]
Hindman and Cukier say that the Web is not necessarily better off with Google But I bet users don't click past the first 10 results because the first 10 are the best 10. And since when is trying to compete with a company by trying to offer similar but better service a bad thing? [#]
August 25, 2004
svn tips I am comfortable enough with my level of geekdom that I can admit to just having printed that out for future reference. [#]
if you delete this the sky will fall on your head Not a helpful comment for newbies. [#]
IE does not interpret color: inherit properly Which I found out a couple hours into a debugging session. [#]
Neil isn't switching to WordPress Good for him. [#]
August 20, 2004
Identifying Atom "URIs are their own data type". [#]
Atom support coming for Radio and Manila [#]
MovableBlog's about page updated No real point in linking to it, except to assure you that the rumours of this site being powered by WordPress—I've had two people ask me in as many days—are not true. [#]
Basecamp review Boris says it's a "good enough" solution if you want a light out-sourced project management app which you can give your clients partial access to (or not). [#]
August 19, 2004
Brad Choate joins 6A Funny, he was my second guess of bloggers I thought would end up at the company, what with the direction they were heading with MT. (My first guess is probably out of the question now.) Official announcement. [#]
August 16, 2004
MT-Blacklist 2.0e released If you have MT 3.0x, and want comment spam protection, the wait is over. [#]
August 14, 2004
Weblog software (no wait, platform!) breakdown [#]
Vancouver-based ActiveState's David Ascher on an introduction to dynamic languages and the myths surrounding them I got Learning Python 2nd edition (which Ascher co-authored) at the Vancouver Python Conference and got to hear Ascher speak briefly there. [#]
August 13, 2004
Google Adsense tips sent by snail mail I was going to post a photo of mine, but Photodude beat me to it. [#]
August 12, 2004
Rick Bruner wants to pay you $25 to review weblog publishing platforms [#]
Edward W. Felten read the FCC's document regarding Internet (and VoIP) wiretapping so that you don't have to [#]
August 11, 2004
Methods search engine spammers are using [#]
August 10, 2004
Why Lisa doesn't own an iPod She doesn't need one, evidently. [#]
Software product pricing primer I bet 6A identifies with the second paragraph of that article. [#]
August 8, 2004
Web-based MSN Messenger Beta How many times have I wanted to chat with my MSN friends (mostly locals it turns out) and bemoaned the inability to install the MSN client (or unwillingness, since I don't install software on Other People's Computers)? [#]
August 7, 2004
I won the Canadian SEO championship I'll have a writeup when I come back up for air. [#]
August 6, 2004
Ben Hammersley, Jay Allen, Brad Choate and Matt Haughey are writing a book about Movable Type [#]
Movalog All things Movable Type! [#]
August 5, 2004
Northern Voice blogging conference in Vancouver on Feb. 19th, 2005 I'll be there! [#]
The origin of "GoogleGuy" Google's official weblog is better than I thought it would be. [#]
August 3, 2004
favicons in FeedDemon Requires editing the Windows registry. [#]
Electoral Vote Predictor has RSS But any political science major (hey that's me!) will tell you that you can't predict the results of an election based on polls that include the phrase "if the election were held today", because the election in question is being held months from now. [#]
Surviving outsourcing Protectionism starts at home. [#]
Hacking and hackability on the rise again Don't tell the lawyers that, though. [#]
