Open Brackets is always a good source of quotes and well-written and insightful commentary. Saturday’s quote is especially poignant: I am ashes where once I was fire. – Byron.
Category: development
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I’ve been watching the Open
I’ve been watching the Open Brackets | Textism romance from afar for a couple months now, and it’s just the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s great to see the sloppy-romantic-fresh-love stuff from both points of view and watch as he moved to France. It’s like a serial romance in three paragraph entries with (I’m sure) lots of information left out. It’s just sweet and pure and beautiful. I hope it lasts for them. They’re both great writers, and from what I’ve read by them, swell folk.
Again, this brings me back to my curiosity about the whole bloggy-thing we’ve got going on now. After watching the Kaycee Nicole thing explode recently, and tons of BBS, e-mail explosions in the distant past, the power of the communal internet (you know, the non-selling crap part) continues to amaze me.
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Top Five BlogTwins
This list bothers me only because they’re all female and I’m not sure what that says about me:
- Firda of Weblog Wannabe
- Caroline of Prolific.org
- Meg of Not So Soft
- Meg of Megnut
- Caterina of Caterina.net
What’s great is that Megnut and Caterina.net ARE two of my favorite blogs. I don’t know the other three, but hey, maybe thing this is right after all. Who’s your twin? (beware the popup ad).
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Tcl is fun for many
Tcl is fun for many reasons. Everyone should learn it and use it in their daily lives.
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I’ve started my Blogger API
I’ve started my Blogger API project! I’m calling it BlogTcl. It will be an XML-RPC implementation for AOLserver and I’ve laid out the skeleton of the Tcl code with proc names and some documentation. Wow, my first open source project. I feel like such a geek.
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So, if I get some
So, if I get some time in the next week or so (that’s as long as I give myself to start a new project – no sense fooling myself), I’m going to work on an AOLserver/Tcl implementation of the Blogger API. I’ve never worked with XML-RPC, but it looks like it’s just POSTing XML to an url, and ta-da, you’ve got a cool buzzword to add to your resume. AOLserver makes this terribly easily by allowing you to construct responses and requests and has a very nice Tcl socket API. And just when I was getting bored…
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Interesting Google tip: If you
Interesting Google tip: If you type in link:http://www.somesite.com, it will find pages that link to the url you enter. How cool is that? I remember AltaVista being able to do it too, but I can’t remember how. I wish we did that… Oh well, here’s how cool my sister is. She has 5 pages of sites that link to her, and I have 4 sites total, two of which are comments I’ve posted to other sites, one is a site I’m a member of, and one is real. She’s won awards, you know.
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I got my first link
I got my first link on another blogger’s site!!! This is soooo cool. Jodi over at iwilldare.com put me in her Good Taste Club. Not sure how I gained membership to such an elusive-sounding body, but hey, I’ll take it! Thanks, Jodi!
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Some genius from Zeldman’s latest
Some genius from Zeldman’s latest Glamorous Life:
Faith is a feeling that tells you it’s okay to trust a feeling.
Hope is a feeling that some day you’ll find faith.
Sometimes I see everyone I’ve ever loved filling the rooms of a great house. And me sneaking out the back.The man’s a genius, really he is.
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Cuz I Wanna
So, everything’s in disarray. Yup, you said it. I have no idea who I’m working with anymore outside of my own group. So, until that’s all settled you’ll be hearing a lot more from me. I plan on doing some playing, some upgrading, some code-writing on pet projects and taking it easy until everyone gets their collective act together.
You know, I wish I lived in an open source world where I could show you all the cool stuff I’m doing. But, alas, I can’t. Just imagine the application you’ve always wanted on the web… that’s how cool what I’m doing is. Yep, I’m a genius. No, really. You don’t believe me?
I think I’ll start an open-source project. I’ll call it Gnutz. No idea what it will do, but hey, it’s got a cool name, and that’s all that matters. Ok, I’ve been procrastinating long enough. Time to install PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on the intranet and see what I break.