Archive for November, 2003
Monday, November 17th, 2003
Thinking in Pivot Points and Pivot Portals
When thinking about the whole “six degrees of separation” and my imagined “evangelistic data conspiracy,” I have often wondered what the application space looks like between a local web geek going to a local church and the mission field, both foreign and domestic. I have come to the conclusion that there is no single [...]
No Comments » - Posted in XAG / The Redemption Project by jmiller
Thursday, November 13th, 2003
Time for more trackbacks, Theoblogical should *fade to white*, dotText weblogging, oh, and Hi Sam
Sam Ruby’s site seems to be picking up on my posts now that I have enabled the trackback feature in Radio. My reference to the Fade To White trick later in the post will surely ping again. The trackback feature seems to work well enough.
I can’t say as much for the mail-from-aggregator feature [...]
No Comments » - Posted in .NET, Web Services, E-Publishing Explosion by jmiller
Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
Fishing, Honesty, and Existentialism
I saw a funny bumper sticker today, a variation of the age old “I think,
therefore I am” –
I fish, therefore I lie
Sorry if I ruined the punchline by explaining it first, but I was afraid
it might not ring a bell for everybody. And while we’re referring to
things not recognizable by the entire population–it seems [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by jmiller
Monday, November 10th, 2003
Cool: SourceForge RSS feeds
OK, I’m in heaven! I just discovered that SourceForge has the ability to serve up RSS feeds on any project in their system. Project-level RSS feeds seem to center around news releases for the project, and you can choose among a few formats (like with or without full news release text). In [...]
No Comments » - Posted in E-Publishing Explosion, Personal Software Integration by jmiller
Sunday, November 9th, 2003
Listed again
Whether Dean is being benevolent or just dutiful, I will call it gracious. He has completed my listing on blogs4God.org (I thought it was .com, but I’m sure all the normal TLD’s have been reserved). Yes, he did put me back near the top on the uptime list. Maybe sometimes it’s useful [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Tech Blogs 4 God by jmiller
Saturday, November 8th, 2003
Reading news, easing guilt
The aggregator mailer feature in Radio has been changing the way I get my RSS blog news. Now, when I’m at work, I get a message *every hour, mind you*, containing around 10 headlines from one or more weblogs. In some ways, I find a single email more managable then the news reader [...]
No Comments » - Posted in E-Publishing Explosion by jmiller
Friday, November 7th, 2003
Shocking! I’ve withdrawn from Blogs4God; to be continued?
Well, here it is. I deleted my listing from the techblogs category at blogs4God. Now, that’s not to say that somehow, I’m unsatisfied with b4g or anything. I’m not storming off in a huff as some bloggers there have done when engaging in heated debates about touchy issues.
No.
I deleted my listing because [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Tech Blogs 4 God by jmiller
Thursday, November 6th, 2003
Disadvantage of email posting
If you don’t have access to your weblog editing interface, Radio Userland lets you post via a special email address. This is great, but if you make a mistake in your use of HTML tags in the email post, you have no way to recall it and repair. So if anyone wondered [...]
No Comments » - Posted in E-Publishing Explosion by jmiller
Wednesday, November 5th, 2003
Web Archive woes caused by Microsoft site changes
I’m aggravated! Microsoft’s updated support page/Knowledge Base article
format will not save in Web Archive format. This is a recent change, and
I have responded at lease once using their feedback form. I have heard
nothing.
I suspect it is related to the cross-domain stylesheet reference, but I
can’t be sure without researching it (Update: I don’t [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Personal Software Integration by jmiller
Sunday, November 2nd, 2003
Ouch! Mac Bug
Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in Panther. Apple’s Panther has a serious bug that wipes out external FireWire drives during the upgrade procedure. Worse, many Mac users are backing up to external drives before upgrading. Some are losing everything. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
I don’t make a habit of Mac-bashing, but I couldn’t help but notice this [...]
