Archive for October, 2004

The two recur­sive rene­gades Le Danois and Dalager are hav­ing some fun, a recur­sive thursday. 

But two three can play that game. In the pic­ture: Yours truly blog­ging the recur­sive post with ecto in a mir­ror while watch­ing a video with Dalager recorded using the same phone that’s in the pic­ture in the mir­ror. How about that? And it’s totally beside the point as it’s not really recur­sive, but it’s sort of the same game… I should sleep more, I know…

Hooray, yet another ‘val­i­da­tion’ ser­vice; Silk­tide SiteScore. So far, the weblog you’re read­ing right now scores pretty bad — some­thing along the lines “well, you’ve done your tech-homework, your host is cool and you’ve got that whole blogosphere-thing going — but it seems you haven’t got any friends, and you’re not likely to find some any­time soon”. I’ll prob­a­bly sleep fine tonight, but maybe I’ll check back later once I fin­ish my stu­pid blog redesign project. 

Note to self: Look into the won­ders that ‘related posts’ plu­g­ins seem to be. Some­times I man­age to post sev­eral time on the same issue.

Print lust: Dis­rup­tive Pat­tern Mate­r­ial: An Ency­clo­pe­dia Of Cam­ou­flage.

Con­tain­ing over 5,000 images, many of which are pre­vi­ously unpub­lished, and draw­ing on the knowl­edge of an exten­sive team of con­sul­tants, DPM is an indis­pens­able ref­er­ence guide for both the novice and sea­soned cam­ou­fleur.

dp-mhi

Exclu­sively through dpmhi.com and dpmhi store in London…guess who’s going to Lon­don in a week… Damn, I’ll never get rich this way. Also on the sub­ject: Cam­ou­flage pat­terns — roy­alty free camo EPS from YouWork­ForThem.

[via Cool Hunting]

Did a search and found a nifty plu­gin for mak­ing enclo­sures in feeds for MT.

To start audio blog­ging, you have to do the hard part first — record the audio file. Be inter­est­ing. Let’s say you recorded as an MP3 file. Then upload the MP3 file to your web server so that it is avail­able for down­load. Then cre­ate a new blog entry that announces your post and has a link to the MP3. The link should be a stan­dard tag with the HREF point­ing to the MP3. Save and rebuild your index files. Your RSS 2.0 index will now have an tag in it point­ing to the MP3. You are all done!

Bran­don Fuller | MT-Enclosures: A Mov­able Type Plugin

Hope I find the time to play with pod­cast­ing soon.

I’ve wanted a wire­less mouse for my Power­book for quite some time now, but since I’m a big scroll wheel fan and MacMice has claimed that their Apple mouse look-a-like was just around the cor­ner for about a year now, I’ve been hold­ing off. Well, The Mouse BT finally arrived. It looks pretty much as the orig­i­nal just with a crack in the cen­ter, split­ting it into a two-button ver­sion around the wheel. 

At first it felt a bit plastic’y but when I put in the bat­ter­ies it got a lot bet­ter. So far it works like a charm, though the mouse itself is a bit small for my hand. The wheel has a nice feel to it and doesn’t turn in ‘clicks’ as most other mice which is rather nice.

AppleIn­sider | New Tiger builds reveal smart font col­lec­tions, secu­rity addi­tions, more:

The Tiger fea­ture list con­tinue to grow. What’s inter­est­ing here is the mic cal­i­bra­tion panel (pod­cast­ers unite) and the xml based screen­saver. What if the stan­dard screen­saver could pull in xml feeds from cam­blogs etc.? Cam­blog feeds them­selves could make nice screen­savers but I reckon you could to spe­cific screen­saver feeds.

Blog­a­rithms points to a tuto­r­ial on music licens­ing at How­Stuff­Works. Inter­est­ing, but I’m still stuck with my ini­tial thought; it’s just too damn hard to deal with. This, of course, has been the case pretty much for ever. My point is, now that pod­cast­ing is tak­ing off, it will become a much big­ger prob­lem. Once again, peo­ple of the net is play­ing with tools get­ting them what they want how they want it when they want it — and just as with MP3s, I doubt any­one will stop to wait for the major record com­pa­nies to get their act together and give up their old skool approach to licenses. When they don’t want to deliver what peo­ple are ask­ing, I can’t blame any­one for think­ing that…well.… screw ‘em. 

Just as we saw it with weblogs, the new infra­struc­ture allow­ing for easy dis­tri­b­u­tion will drive the deliv­ery of inter­est­ing con­tent and while we are defi­nately up for some qual­ity indie talk radio, I expect to see quite a lot of good music shows out there too — and a lot of angry let­ters from record companies. 

Bot­tom­line: Once again, the major play­ers are going to learn it the hard way, so in short they’ll just have to act pretty damn soon if they want a pice of the action. Right now, most peo­ple out there would love to do this legally. Once they decide to play hard­ball with­out offer­ing any decent alter­na­tives, most peo­ple will just go ahead and to their thing any­way — and they won’t have a hard time explain­ing to the pub­lic why they do what they do event though it’s not legal. 

I think I’m going to get myself a radioSHARK. FM timeshift­ing com­ing up. For now I’ll prob­a­bly won’t get in trou­ble as I don’t really have a radio show lined up.

GUUUI points us to a sum­mary on card sort­ing tools. I haven’t read it prop­erly yet but I’m already biased towards Web­Sort as it allows you to do your card sorts over the web. I’m a big fan of pen and paper and while soft­ware defi­nately will make sav­ing your data in a decent for­mat (and not just a desk drawer) a lot eas­ier, I really just need a sim­ple way of not hav­ing to met in per­son with the card sort­ing crew. 

I’ve men­tioned this before, but never got round to do an actual search on the sub­ject. I imag­ine a video con­fer­ence in com­bi­na­tion with an online card sort­ing tool could prove quite use­ful (ok, so I got an iSight some time ago and still need to find some­thing use­ful to use it for).

Maybe we should all get Gra­vatars to help iden­tify us when post­ing comments?

Yet another poten­tially use­ful Fire­fox plugin:

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And whad­dya know, it turns out to be yet another essen­tial exten­sion (as far as I’m con­cerned). The premise of MileWide­Back is sim­ple: you use the left-edge of the Fire­fox win­dow to nav­i­gate back and forth in your tab his­tory.

This exten­sion allows you to nav­i­gate back and forth with­out requir­ing com­plex hand-to-eye coordination.

Redemp­tion in a blog:

I’ll have to try it out once I get to my PC. Since upgrad­ing to the lat­est RC on OS X, I’m hav­ing a lot of trou­ble with Fire­fox. It runs, but I can’t open new win­dows, the same goes for pop-ups and once one of these win­dows are ini­ti­ated, the Window-menu gets an empty line for each one; even­tu­ally the browser stops respond­ing. I have tried man­u­ally to remove all plu­g­ins etc., but so far with­out any luck. So I’m using Safari as my pri­mary browser which I though would be a healthy expe­ri­ence any­way. Single-window mode works out of the box which is really con­ve­nient when using an aggre­ga­tor — of course Fire­fox does that in one of the lat­est builds as well…but I guess I’ll have to wait to test that. I don’t mind fid­dling with a few things to get new soft­ware to work but right now I just can’t be arsed. 

On a side note, I’m try­ing out doing the BLOCKQUOTE–markup a bit bet­ter, adding ADDRESS at the end. Found the tip over at Anne’s.