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Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. We did. Thanks to everyone on Long Island.
"This utility strips proprietary Microsoft tags and artefacts from Word HTML documents..."
That could be useful someday.
"...Fancypants tags and client-side scripts are stripped."
Bill posted this great link to thirteen beautiful screenprints by Buckminster Fuller. "Each of the thirteen prints consists of two 30" x 40" screenprinted sheets, one of which illustrates drawings for a patent invention by Fuller, and the second sheet illustrates the realization of the concept."
I made a new archive view for the pages on this site. It's on option for page owners (in [editpage].) The old style is the default.
Every time I make something with either frames or javascript it turns out to not be a good idea. This uses frames so I have to figure I won't like it eventually. But it uses frames in an anti-frame way. Almost anything you do will pop you out of the frames and back to a full page view. So there shouldn't be any way to get stuck in there (framed?)
Like everything else this has no instructions. Probably a few words in the two initially blank frames would be enough, but even without you can probably figure it out. Click a month to get that months summaries, and then click on the summary text to bring up that post. Clicking on the post number (in the top window) or 'posted by' (in the bottom window) brings you to a full screen view of the post on the normal page.
[Note that I didn't start including the summaries for each post until fairly recently. This reduces the value of the archive. Some day I'll go back and add them in for the early days.]
Mozilla 0.96 is out. So far so good.
HTP pointed me to this interview with Dave Winer (Userland CEO and blogging bigshot) titled the case for personal publishing. Nothing ground breaking here, but Dave does manage to get in this really great explanation:
There are three different structures you can hang information off. One of them is time, another one is searching, and the third is categorization (or "taxonomy" or "hierarchies"). You see the search engine space is doing great and you've got various attempts to try and do the taxonomy stuff.I think he should keep using this explanation. Very clear.
But the idea of hanging content off of time works extremely well in an environment where the goal is to keep people coming back. You want to refresh your homepage every day? That's what blogging is. It is a site structure that uses time to create a framework of organization that both creates immediacy and is easy to understand.
Oh yeah, here's a page (from /. maybe?) with 300 thumbnails of all manner of absurd gadgetry on display at this years Comdex. My favorites are this linux powered Sharp PDA with cool slide out blackberry style keyboard, and Samsung's virtual keyboards in wired and unwired flavors. I think I could type OK without looking (and without there even being a keyboard not to look at) but I wonder how many people could.
I did a lot of work on the back end over the weekend. Best stretch of work on this project I've managed in quite some time. And now I'm almost ready to start in on the new version of the uploaded image system, which right now is rather simplistic. This was fine to start, but now some people have so many photos on the server that grouping them in one long list is a bit cumbersome. I have a lot of ideas (many thanks to a good conversation I had with Tom Moody,) but the more I think about it, the more complex and far fetched my ideas have become. Plans tend toward kitchensinkism. This is good, because it allows me to grind through all the dark alleys and back corners of possibility, but I've learned not to start serious work until my ideas are on their way back towards something more simple. And this isn't just because I'm not the best builder.
A memepool for unix geeks: sweetcode.
Sweetcode reports innovative free software. 'Innovative' means that the software reported here isn't just a clone of something else or a minor add-on to something else or a port of something else or yet another implementation of a widely recognized concept.So, in case you need a half keyboard patch to the linux kernal, or a program to extract the original data values from a .gif image of a chart, or something else similarly obscure but possibly useful, you know where to go. Interesting stuff.