Matt Croydon::Postneo

Day: February 7, 2003

  • TSA Contraband

    BoingBoing:

    Oh ho, he said, this is different — it has a smaller flame than your lighter.

    So I flipped off the wind-shield, and cranked the little valve-control lever around counterclockwise, and then lit the lighter. A foot-long jet of flame shot out of it.

  • Testing Trackbacks with tblib

    Matthew Langham:

    Frank is looking for someone to test whether his Trackback works. Radio doesn’t support Trackback – so perhaps some kind person will help. Thanks!

    I use Radio, and therefore don’t have trackback support, but I did ping his weblog manually with a python trackback library that I wrote.  His trackbacks seem to be working fine.

    [user @ box tb]$ ./tbclient.py -tburl http://www.koehntopp.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/204 -title "Testing Trackback" -excerpt "I use Radio, which doesn't support trackback either, so I'm pinging gadgetguy.de with a command line client using tblib." -blogname "Matt Croydon::postneo" -url http://postneo.com/2003/02/07.html#a1992
    Trackback command line client here.  Preparing TrackBack...
    TrackBack URL: http://www.koehntopp.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/204
    TrackBack Title: Testing Trackback
    TrackBack Excerpt: I use Radio, which doesn't support trackback either, so I'm pinging gadgetguy.de with a command line client using tblib.
    Your Weblog Name: Matt Croydon::postneo
    Your URL: http://postneo.com/2003/02/07.html#a1992
    Pinging http://www.koehntopp.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/204...
    HTTP Response: 200 OK
    TrackBack Error Code is: 0 (zero is okay)
    Done!

  • Dict, Python clients, and Gophers, Oh My!

    I don’t use a spell checker for this weblog, and I’m truly sorry for that.  Sucks to be you, my reader.  Most of the time if I’m not sure of the spelling of a word, I’ll either look it up at dict.org or find a similar, easier to spell word.

    I was curious about DICT protocol clients, so I went to the links page.  This led me to John Goerzen’s Python client class.  I’m taking a look at it now, it looks simple yet powerful.  John hosts his content with a gopher.  I miss gopher.  Gopher used to be the coolest thing on the planet.

    Of course John has also written a gopher server in Python.  It’s called PyGopherd (duh!).  I so have to set one up.