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What the heck is going on lately? I've been seriously productive. Lots of new features coming on line. Sure, most are small, but I've added them all in the past few weeks and they've been on the to do list for years. I guess it's something like momentum. Once you start knocking stuff off the list you see that it's really not so hard. And it feels good. So you just keep rolling. And since I'm not hitting any major hurdles I seem to be building speed.
Nice while it lasts. Ten days to vacation.
Looks like Thursday will be the down day due to the server migration.
I have the bulletin board view working now, as well as the xml feed. The later is a crazy maze of political infighting. I'm just a novice, so I can't even say what type of xml it actually is that I am employing. What I can say is that it works when you look at it in NetNewsWire lite. Still, there is so much bickering about how this type of thing should be formatted, that it may well be the case that someone could claim my implementation is broken. Whatever. I'm happy to learn as I go.
My format comes from copying the structure of Aaron Swartz's feed. But is this RSS? RDF? WTF? I guess people are still working these things out. I'm just happy it's at least basically functioning.
I'll point to it after the server switch.
[update: OK, I guess it's RDF, although it may be RSS also (that is, RDF is one way to encode RSS.) Is that right?]
Of course now that I've commited to the server move, this one has been amazingly fast (from my perspective at least.) This is in comparison to the very slow speeds I had been seeing for the last few weeks. Oh well. I'll be curious to see how the new server does. It's actually a less powerful machine, but under orders of magnitude less load. I'm figuring it will be an improvement, but if it's only as fast as this one is right now I'll be happy.
The new server is up. If everything goes correctly this domain will be transfered tomorrow. This might mean (well, ok, probably mean) the site will be unreachable for up to 24 hours. I'll post again when I'm more sure, but it looks like tomorrow will be the day.
Great Alex Wilson piece on Veteran's Day.
Art Medlar wrote to David Weinberger pointing out that if you search for 'http' in google you get the raw ordering of pages by rank. Wow. No big surprises, but very cool.
Alex is going to have a heart attack or something: I'm finally rebuilding the advanced search. This will debut next week after we change servers.
Macromedia starts to get what blog tool makers have been saying for years.
Christopher Locke makes me laugh out loud. And that's pretty good seeing as his topic is a business meeting.
The chimera web browser is a simplified version of mozilla for OS X (with a native cocoa user interface.) Still in beta, the new 0.6 release is quite good. I'm using it as my main browser now. Much faster at rendering pages than Mozilla. Worth a look despite it's pre 1.0 status.