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Happy birthday MB!
If you have an account here (and not much of a life?) you can now pop up a small window that will sit on your desktop and watch the site for you while you work. If something gets posted on a page you are tracking the window will let you know. Just go to /monitor (requires javascript.)
Phil Agre (of rock rock eater mailing list fame) has some ideas about colaborative web filters:
The "webfilter", as I'll call it, is a cross between a discussion list, a weblog, and a bookmark file. It is not just a weblog, since it includes numerous functionalities to deal with long lists of URL's. Nor is it just a discussion list, since the goal is to produce a reasonably clean and orderly presentation of the URL's. Nor is it just a bookmark file, because of its community nature.He explains the system he wants, but also adds "I cannot participate in building such a tool, but I would be happy to try out any prototypes that others might construct." Yeah, OK, I'll get right on it. Still, a good article of some interest to bloggers.
Ahhh! Scorpios everywhere!
It's early November and that means birthday time. Seems like I know an inordinate number of scorpios. Someone once told me this makes sense since I am a boring Taurus. Anyway, I was lucky enough to take two to dinner last night at Papillon. Here's the account if you're interested in such restaurant matters.
We're cooking at our place and watching the game tonight if anyone is interested.
Macintouch has some unconfirmed reports of the brand new Apple iTunes2 wiping out whole partitions upon installation. I'm looking forward to using this software (crossfading!), but I think I'll wait a day or two for this to sort out.
About a month ago I made a post with the double misspellings 'antrax' and 'symptons'. If you happen to search on google.yahoo.com for that phrase I come up as one of two results. The weird thing is I'm getting tons of hits from that exact misspelled search. Anyone arriving from such a search should be aware that you wont finde mutch imformation hear.
As we were discussing last night, today is the last phase of the weblogs.com transition. I'm still unclear whether you have to set up an account to be registered by the new system, or whether just sending the XML-RPC update notice is enough. In any case, you can turn on notification for your page here through [editpage] (change 'notify userland' to yes.)
Here's the mostly working skeleton of the new advanced search function. Searching the entire site will look in all comment pages (but right now searching a particular page will not.) Of course searching the entire site is sloooooow. I'll be adding a toggle for case sensitive/insensitive, although you could get the same result using a regex if you know how to do [Tt][Hh][Aa][Tt].
Imagine for a moment that all your present serving needs add up to about 1 GB/month in transfers. Now imagine that you might suddenly have over 100 GB/month in available bandwidth. What would you do?