Archive for February, 2003

Blog­ging is still like Live Jazz from iWire is mak­ing me feel all guilty for not actively giv­ing this sub­ject more thought. All the power of the net­works we develop and use every­day some­what relies on prin­ci­ples basi­cally under­min­ing the con­cept of truth. Not that big a sur­prise, but some­thing to take into con­sid­er­a­tion when we are work­ing on new sys­tems and net­works — and when using these tools. [via black­eltjones]

Aaron Swartz explains what will hap­pen. “By then it is too late. The peo­ple own the Inter­net now. When there is cen­sor­ship, the soft­ware routes around it. As long as there is a client and a server, they can com­mu­ni­cate. No more DMCA take­down notices, no more Car­ni­vore boxes, no more $40/mo., no more “capped upstream”, no more “run­ning servers is not per­mit­ted”. The Inter­net is remade in its orig­i­nal image.”

Just needed to try out the Mov­able­Jive plu­gin, and as I’m absolutely des­perat to go to Lon­don (it’s been too long, spring in Lon­don is always nice) I might as well put that totally unim­por­tant bit of infor­ma­tion to use as the base for a Cock­ney text for­mat­ting attempt.

Just ended a long night of work with the upgrade of Mov­able­Type to ver­sion 2.62. So far it doesn’t seem to have caused any trou­ble — and now I have the pos­si­bil­ity of even more plu­g­ins, some of them are already installed.

Yes­ter­day I found out that some of the mails sent via @pollas.dk have been lost due to a host update which I hadn’t been informed about. So if you have tried to mail me the past five days or so, please try again. I prob­a­bly haven’t received it.

I’ve been miss­ing my Bricks are Heavy cd by L7 for over a year. A cou­ple of weeks ago I found it under a shelv­ing unit and today I put it on. It’s truly a great record and in the light of the soon-to-be war against Iraq, the track War­gasm has a truth or two in there:

War­gasm, war­gasm one, two, three
Tie a yel­low rib­bon around the amputee
Mas­tur­bate watch it on TV
Croc­o­dile tears for the refugee
War­gasm, war­gasm one, two, three
Smutty, bloody pic­tures, ecstasy
Blue balls wait­ing impa­tiently
From Alca­traz to Lady Lib­erty
Body bags and drop­ping bombs
The pen­ta­gon knows how to turn us on
War­gasm, war­gasm one, two, three
Peo­ple, peo­ple, ecstasy
Wave those flags high in the air
As long as it takes place over there
War­gasm
Turn us on
Wargasm

(Ok, it not that damn pro­found — but hey, it’s a cool record. Chicks with gui­tars and all…)

Was about to imple­ment mt-foaf v0.31, then I noticed this good news with a link to an Antip­ixel post on MT com­ments which I really liked, espe­cially after doing yesterday’s tem­plate adjust­ments which actu­ally just proved all the points. So I guess I’ll just wait a cou­ple of weeks before I start tear­ing the code on this site apart. How­ever, I’m really look­ing for­ward to it as I would really like to make the var­i­ous com­ment­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties — the inter­ac­tive and giv­ing part of blog­ging — as smooth as pos­si­ble. The whole idea of weblogs (this one any­way) is the exchange of thoughts, ideas etc. So go on, interact.

Appa­rantly, the peo­ple from Virus are cook­ing up some­thing new: BLACK BOX MAGAZINE — to be released later this month. Look­ing for­ward to it.

Burn­ing­bird posts some really impor­tant thoughts on the use of Cre­ative Com­mons licenses. But while proper attri­bu­tion, ‘theft’ of com­plete web­sites etc. could become a prob­lem in some cases, the use of ‘gen­er­ous’ CC licenses shouldn’t stand out as being strange — maybe I do want peo­ple to be able to use design, code and ideas from my weblog with­out hav­ing to ask per­mis­sion, pay me money or what­ever. I post ideas and com­ments because I’d like peo­ple to respond to them, includ­ing the pos­si­bil­ity to develop them fur­ther. If one of them is good enough to start a busi­ness on, fine by me. If I didn’t want any­one to know about it, I wouldn’t have posted it on here in the first place. As what goes for design and code, I myself ben­e­fit from the nice peo­ple at Mov­able­Type pro­vid­ing a plat­form for my blog for free — if I develop any code use­ful for the blog­ging com­mu­nity, it’s only fair I give that free as well. That said, I can’t agree enough, that one should be very care­ful before ‘going with the flow’ and pos­si­bly choose to give it all away with­out real­iz­ing the consequenses.

The great plu­gin, Sim­pleCom­ments, has now been inte­grated into the tem­plates of this site, allow­ing com­ments and track­backs to be listed side by side. So there you have it; “Track­Backs are com­ments. They are com­ments left on some­one else’s site rather than your own, but they are com­ments nonethe­less”. So true.