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I'll be saying more about [upload] over the next few days, but for now you might want to know there is a new verb, "getthumb" that operates exactly like "getpic" but displays a tumbnail instead of the picture itself. Picture x (/getpic/x) now automatically has a thumbnail with the same id (/getthumb/x).
For people with pages here (or on any of the other sites) you can now make any page display as a bulletin board. You'll see this new option on [editpage]. You can switch back and forth between the weblog view and the bbs view with no loss of data. Also, in [settings], you can make your account default so that you always see pages as either weblogs, or bulletin boards, no matter how each individual page is set by its' owner.
Again, like the advanced search, formatting hasn't really had any attention paid to it. That will come. Suggestions appreciated.
If you're not familiar, the thing that might be cool about bulletin boards is that it's easy for readers who don't have accounts to keep up with new comments. The bulletin board lists the subject of the the post (you have to click through to actually read the post and comments,) plus the name of the author, and the date of the most recent post or comment in that thread. But the important thing is that the posts are ordered by most recent activity. So if a very old post receives a new comment, that post summary is returned at the top of your page in bulletin board view.
Probably not so helpful for the people on this site, but some of the other sites can use this sort of thing. Nice for organizational stuff when you can't convice people to sign in and use the [new post] [new comment] links from the front page.
I'm still unclear on the terminology, but you can now get RSS feeds (in RDF form if I'm understanding all the acronyms correctly) for any page here by adding /xml to the end of the URL. So my feed is here. Works in NetNewsWire Lite. I'd be interested if anyone could tell me if it worked in Radio. And of course I'd be grateful if anyone could correct my form. Thanks.
Steven Johnson (of feed, suck, and NYU's ITP program) has a blog.
Here's the site for that weird futuristic boutique on Ave. B we've been wondering about.
We're back up on the new server. I made lots of behind the scenes changes so there will no doubt be some problems. Let me know if you experience anything weird (I mean in reference to this page...)
OK. Looks like tomorrow (Friday) at 5:30 am the site will disappear for anyone coming from an ISP where any customer has connected to the site in the last week or so (so all of you for sure.) Should be back by 5:30 am on Saturday.
Sorry for all the confusion. Probably there will be a few glitches when it comes back up, but I'll be on the job. Thanks!
Well, this site has been transfered to the new server. But right now we are still seeing the old site. I don't know enough about the strange magic that is the DNS system, so I can't say exactly when the switch will take place (or, I mean, it's already taken place, but I can't say when it will go into effect.) Weird.
Anything posted from a few hours ago forward (until the switch takes effect) will have to be moved later by hand. So you should be skeptical of that. In other words, if you're about to post your masterpiece, maybe hold off until tomorrow.
Hmmm. We might be getting an addition to the family today.
Excellent! David McCusker is going to work for Mitch Kapor's Open Source Application Foundation. This makes me happy in numerous ways. I can't wait to see what they build.
Today is my first day as an OSAF engineer, and my mission is to write world class software that revolutionizes the way data is stored and accessed by computer programs. So I'll be doing a lot of work on the Chandler storage system and future OSAF apps in pursuit of this goal. I'm quite excited by this new position and happy to join the project.
Congratulations David! Good luck.