if you got a surprise today when you visited the vast empire it was because mydomain decided to 'upgrade' their system. in the process they changed where the subdomain www.snowdeal.org pointed. snowdeal.org was there the whole time.
minor emergency in the grand scheme of things, but it did quickly reinforce that i should be more, um, regular about backing up the site.
posted by e3
7:34:53 PM
minor emergency in the grand scheme of things, but it did quickly reinforce that i should be more, um, regular about backing up the site.
nicholas petreley presents an interesting thesis on how the economic "downturn" can help the open source community:
posted by e3
10:20:04 PM
"In the first place, open source is about to get a very big boost because the dot-com economy is tanking. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but open source guru Bruce Perens was right when he recently observed that a slow economy presents the best opportunities for open source. (Please see Resources for more information.) Free software is where you turn when you no longer have money to burn. That's exactly the position the dot-coms find themselves in right now. The dot-coms aren't floundering because the opportunities aren't there. They're floundering because they got spoiled on the irrational exuberance of investors and didn't learn how to spend their money wisely. Open source is in a perfect position to benefit from the lessons in frugality that these companies will now have to learn."i think ibm is taking notes.
well, yes - as a matter of fact - i can understand how this could happen:
"The six-month-old collie-Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross is recovering from major surgery to remove a 15-inch serrated knife from his stomach.
He was only 18 inches long and 18 inches tall when the knife was taken out.
while i was at the register i noticed a bit on doctors forced to use hotmail for confidential medical records. scaaaaaaaary.
posted by e3
8:25:51 PM
oh, hell. the register made me do it:
posted by e3
8:17:41 PM
"So good ole Dubya has become the 33 1/3 president of the United States, spoken of compassion and then forced young girls to live with their sexual mistakes. But what do Americans really think of him?
If you really want to know what's going on in the world, you tap your query into a search engine. And what better engine than Google?"
even though i never used blogvoices, it's a drag that it is shutting down.
at least that news is tempered, in some small way, by the release of How to manage your site with Blogger, PHP, and XML :
posted by e3
8:55:22 PM
at least that news is tempered, in some small way, by the release of How to manage your site with Blogger, PHP, and XML :
"This document will show you how to use Blogger to store your site information in XML and then transform that XML into HTML on your server using PHP."
one of these days, i'd like to begin spending more time on ex machina talking about me. i'm not talking crazy narcissistic - just little dabs here and there.
today, however, is not one of those days. today, i will throw a couple of links into the annotated bookmark bin and call it good:
The Power of Metadata:
posted by e3
8:43:01 PM
today, however, is not one of those days. today, i will throw a couple of links into the annotated bookmark bin and call it good:
The Power of Metadata:
"The basic protocol being used in CD metadata query is both simple and general: "Tell me what you know about the resource whose CD checksum is some-huge-number" -- a protocol reminiscent of the PICS label bureau protocol. The MP3 community could build enormously useful services on top of this, even without adopting a more general framework such as that provided by RDF, but they have stopped short of the next step."The Parable of Umbrellas and Taxicabs:
"The lesson for peer-to-peer metadata architecture is simple. Unique identifiers create markets."
"Anyone who's spent any time in New York City knows that when it begins to rain, two things happen immediately: It becomes easier to buy an umbrella and it becomes harder to hail a cab. As soon as the first few drops fall, people appear on the street selling cheap umbrellas, while a lucky few pedestrians occupy all the available cabs.
Why does an increase in demand produce opposite effects on supply -- more available umbrellas and fewer available taxis? The answer is the nature of the resources themselves. Umbrellas are small and inexpensive to store, so it's easy to take them out when it's raining and put them back when the rain stops. Additional umbrellas can be deployed in response to demand."
remote collaborative authoring resources looks like a good place to brush up on the the world beyond blogger.
[ via cam ]
posted by e3
8:52:31 AM
just in time for summer - look snazzy and support the site at the same time by buying some snowdeal schwag!
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