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Overnight, I moved this site to a new, way faster server. This will allow me to start building on it again. In the move I decided to ditch my photo galleries because, well, I didn't like them and they took...

I just caught MT-Blacklist doing something really nasty. And I caught it doing it repeatedly: When submitting a checkmarked list of comments from Movable Type's comments list to MT-Blacklist for processing, MT-Blacklist only properly grabs the first comment ID, and...

I've been thinking a lot lately about this thing we call the personal weblog, especially the evolution I see, working exclusively on other people's, in how they are used and how their owners want to use them. It comes down...

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"Je ne discute pas le principe, je dis simplement ceci: ce n'est pas le moment." "I am not disputing the principle, I am simply saying this: now is not the time."...

tag now, ask questions later! tag 'em all, the system'll sort 'em out!...

Some cool folks, working on a cool project, are looking for some reliable geo-data for Canada. Place names and GPS coordinates, mostly. So I turn to Natural Resources Canada of course, the governmental body that has this stuff. The first...

In the spirit of Christmas, we are offering a special 30% discount on purchases of ecto between December 20th and 26th, 2004! Get it while it lasts! If you blog, ecto is THE app for composing and managing your...

Boing boing just linked to a gallery of pics of the Nakagin Capsule Tower - Ginza, Tokyo - which was mentioned in that book I rambled on about a few weeks back (in a post titled "Boids"). I much...

Mike from Ile Sans Fil says: mtl3p: Oh, and in case some of you haven't though of it yet I'm putting all of comments that I make on delicious. You know, when you comment on someone's blog and then forget...

Firefox's Share of Browser Market Grows 34 Percent in One Month, According to WebSideStory: The U.S. browser usage share of Firefox, the upstart Mozilla-based browser that has become a champion of the open source movement, has grown by more than...

An Interview with Derrick de Kerckhove Director, McLuhan Program   conducted by Álvaro Bermejo AB: In spite of its totalising ambitions, can the Net develop a new Humanism, a new Enlightenment? DdeK: Maybe, but Humanism and Enlightenment may not be...

Posted this comment chez Joi: Copyright is a product of egotism and greed. It is of the utmost arrogance to think that we own anything, let alone something so abstract and fleeting as "an idea". Copyright was created because the...

Or something like that... I've been ranting about tags, Ado spoke of APIs, Leonard digs in with facets and triplets, and surely there are looooads of other people talking about all of this, and have been for a long time....

Discovered amongst the tracks of the recently mentioned Blogothèque compilations (go go go grab it!!! Junkie Brewster's rendition of "Like a prayer" alone is worth the download!) is a gem called "We shall overcome". Here is the video version. Gustav,...

made me cry. For a long while. Thank you....

"Com' follow me now!" Thinking hard about tags - the new black as Ado says - and various conversations I've had recently, mostly with Karl, about ontologies, explicit relationships (hah!), etc. Say I have a bunch of files that I...

Do Android Crows Fly Over the Skies of an Electronic Tokyo? The Interactive Urban Landscape of Japan (Architecture Landscape Urbanism) 2001 - Akira Suzuki Picked this little gem up at the CCA bookstore the day I attended the Devices...

Adriaan, the erstwhile developer of such sweet apps as ecto and 1001, today has released two of his little Perl scripts for Movable Type: the Technorati Plugin and the last.fm script. Both of these have been running, beautifully, on Joi's...

So, I've just found out that the fellow in that "worst video ever" was one "Tommy Seebach". Apparently Tommy was briefly a huge star in his homeland of Denmark. It appears he went alcoholic and offed himself last year....

I want all my data to relate. I want to connect Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor to Cornelius' Wataridori (because played back-to-back they are a force of nature, IMHO). I want to relate that relation to a friend's...

I get anxious when people don't answer an email. I worry I've said something wrong, or misplaced a comma or worse, a smiley. I'm always afraid I'm intruding with an IM message. I want to apologize whenever someone logs off...

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