Monkinetic Weblog

Steven from Panic complains about how complicated it got to redesign his MovableType weblog. Several of us chimed in to promote |WordPress| -- no wonder the community is growing so quickly. :-D

Sometime the hardest decisions.... aren't.

An IT guy at Jodi's company just told her that Mac networks were "insecurable". (pause for riotous laughter.) It's like she IM'd me:

Inspired by |Dunstan Orchard|'s entry on how he's presenting times in his blog posts, I've added a similar feature to monkinetic, helped along by the lovely |WordPress| plugin that phu developed.

|Dave Shea| gave his CSS Crib Sheet a permanent home. It's a great resource for things to keep in mind when building standards-compliant websites.

Steve wrote to point out that the main function in Link Linker rm_link, was conflicting with the wp-amazon plugin. I've fixed the problem and uploaded a new version.

I love having a wife who works for a construction company. Every so often |Jodi| will call me and say "hey we've got <cool construction materials> here for free if you want them". So the other day she calls and they've got some cabinetry they're getting rid of. I went over and got a cabinet with a couple drawers and doors in it, and two shelves. After acquiring a 4x8 sheet of CDX plywood, and the judicous application of Liquid Nails and threaded fasteners, I managed to construct a very servicable workbench, replacing the lower half of an old credenza I'd been using.

Link Linker is a plugin for |WordPress| 1.2.

|photomatt|, lead developer of |WordPress|, posted a kick-ass blog entry about how WordPress handles comment spam, his approach to it, and some of the directions WordPress is going in in that area. A good read to see the state-of-the-art on fighting The Evil that is spam.

I'm testing a new plugin I'm working on, please be patient.

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[10:03am] redmonk: i'm not here to start a language war
[10:03am] redmonk: we're doing all our cororate stuff in php
[10:03am] photomatt: Too late, I already launched the missles
...
[10:03am] shade_: grab a code helmet.. incase it happens?
[10:03am] photomatt: Damn red button
...
[10:03am] shade_: oh god
[10:03am] shade_: take cover!
[10:04am] redmonk: runs, as the klaxons sound
[10:04am] shade_: screams like a girl
[10:04am] photomatt: * Halfway there, the PHP missles
run out of memory
[10:04am] redmonk: falls over laughing
[10:04am] shade_: getting back his manhood

We're celebrating Sysadmin Appreciation Day here at Content Connections. :-) The tech team will be ordering pizza and perhaps watching WarGames or Tron. Suggestions for other suitably geeky movies welcome.

I'm working on Jodi's weblog, and want to demo Trackback for her, so this post is tracking back a funny post she made today about her "nice-boss".

I've found some links to my content floating around the web of the form www.redmonk.net/discussion/thread.html$msgnum=2353 So I decided to route them to the same script that maps some of my other old Conversant URLs to the new site, and now the discussion-style links work after a fashion - they get 302'd to the correct url - in this case redmonk.net/archives/2003/10/30/winter-lawn-redux.

Jodi has started blogging again at her newly WordPress-powered weblog. Even I'm wondering what she's talking about...

Doug Bowman, designer and css guru, published yet another article dedicated to getting those of us who have not gone the "standards-compliant" route on our sites to make the leap.

In 2002-2003, Jodi and I got seriously hooked on an intelligently-written and smartly-directed crime drama on NBC called Boomtown. Somehow, aliens managed to abduct the people at NBC smart enough to air this amazing bit of cinema, b/c the show was unceremoniously bludgeoned to death after 1 season and 4 episodes.

Bump: Apple announces plans to create iTunes for Motorola cell phones. As Robert says I didn't expect that. Indeed. Not sure how good an idea this is, guess we'll see.

If you have a Powerbook G4 and your sound starts horking out, run the Apple Hardware Test (boot from the included disk, hold down Option and select "Apple Hardware Test"). It's possible that you'll get a logic board error 2ISS/1/5: 0x40. If so, call AppleCare (you did get AppleCare, right?) and they'll hook you up.

Joi Ito links to a post by Seth Godin who mentions the idea of "greatest hits", or weblog posts that you (as the blogger) think people should read first when coming to your site.