Well, it's been a long road, but the next version of Sid is going to go alpha soon. I can't believe it, myself. After being out of work for several months now I finally decided to get myself back into some Cocoa development - Sid being a priority.

I've started a new weblog on this site for posts relating to software I'm developing, starting with Sid. I have another project in the works that I'm not ready to announce yet, but when I do it too will be discussed.

It's weird, on these nights when I keep coding after Jodi goes off to bed, I can't seem to leave off working until around 3 am. I'm likely to feel like crap tomorrow, and I'll have no one but myself to blame. Bleagh.

I'm now testing my ping code for Sid. I have to post here (instead of to my local copy of Conversant) because weblogs.com tried to read the site when you ping. So in order to check that it's all working I have to post to (and ping for) a site weblogs.com can reach.

I'm up to my greasy armpits in Sid tonight (this morning?)... this is another test to see if I've got it all back together. I seem to remember that my Dad once thought he had that old Triumph motorcycle all back together too...

Well, I think I've beaten back most of the bugs I introduced while "upgrading" Sid to Apple's new web services API. I should have known to keep a working copy of Sid around. Oy.

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Whew. Well, it's 2:17 am and I finally got this thing working I think. If you're seeing this on the home page, then I've finally got Sid moved over from the old XML-RPC framework I was using to Apple's new WebServicesCore framework.

To those on the redmonk mail list: sorry about all the webservices posts - I've been working on Sid, and was debugging it at 2 am - a bunch of posts slipped through the email system before I could delete them from the site...

I'm scaring Aaron.

A comment to Morbus's O'Reilly post reveals how to get clickable urls. Put the url between angle brackets (< >).

It has been determined (by me) that iCal borks on mac-style line endings (\r - oh, the irony!) Morbus whipped up a perl cgi that will convert your mac-style line endings to unix ones, so you can subscribe to a mac-encoded calendar.

I just sent this to Apple via their iCal feedback page:

"I think it would be very useful to allow HTML in the DESCRIPTION and SUBJECT fields, so that hyperlinks and formatting can be included. This would enhance the workflow of shared calendars - users can create an event, then point (in the description or subject) to a web-based resource."

I forgot to post this on Tuesday when I heard it, but NPR's Public Interest "Tech Tuesday" had a piece on blogging. (Real Audio) Rebecca Blood was the main guest, along with David Gallagher and Eric Olsen from BlogCritics.org. All in all it was not a lot of new material, but it was interesting to hear the guests, and amusing to hear Kojo saying "blahg". -)

Morbus has updated his entry on iCal, vCalendar, and Moveable Type. If you're an MT hack, he needs a plug-in that strips links in a post and gathers them as footnotes at the bottom of the post.

Morbus has updated his blog entry with information on the linefeed issue, his script, and the fact that Mike at NewsIsFree now has Slashdot posts running into an iCal file.

Jim had this cool idea to use weblog software to generate an iCal-compatible vCal file for a blog. Then iCal users could subscribe to it. I want to try this out.

Morbus Iff over at Disobey.com got his blog iCal-ified. Subscribe to it here.

I copied and hand-hacked one of my calendars in iCal to see how it might look with blog entries as events. Blog titles get cut down to one word (in week view, my default), and there's no easy way to see the description unless you use the inpector. iCal is not the ideal blog-reader, by any stretch, but it does open up some interesting possibilities. Not sure what they are yet, but I'm hoping that by spreading the idea someone out there will have some cool ideas on great ways to use this.

On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 10:07 AM, Donald W. Larson wrote:

> view this message on the web at: http://www.redmonk.net/1432 > -------------------------------> >> Larry wall was quoted as saying: >> >> I remember reading at some point that you are a Christian... Please >> tell us how in the world a scientific or at least technical mind can >> believe in God... > > One doesn&#39;t need to be a Christian to believe in God. That&#39;s my first > point.

I&#39;ll grant you that, Don. But at the same time, I don&#39;t think that was the point. Larry is a Christian (I&#39;m assuming from reading his reply, and other things he&#39;s written), and the questioner was asking how, as a scientist, Larry can believe in God. I thought his reply was well said, and that&#39;s what I was pointing out.

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