Category: Web Services

The Open Blender Project: An overview of what will become of blender and the many web sites involved.

Standalone TrackBack:

The standalone TrackBack implementation is now released. This tool allows anyone with a server capable of running CGI scripts to send and receive TrackBack pings, and display those pings on their public site.

Ed Cone reports:

Jerry, a one-year-old Siamese fighting fish (betta), was found dead in his bowl this morning at his home in Greensboro. He had been looking lethargic and, as Sydney noted, he had that same weird coloring that Rainbow got before HE died. Jerry was a good fish and will be missed long after the next fish arrives this evening–even after the puppy comes next month. Jerry was buried at sea in a private ceremony held in the children’s bathroom.

My condolances go out to Ed and his family.  Having lost household pets in the past, it is often hard to cope.  May Jerry be remembred.

Tins:::: “But with electronic writing, you don’t have page numbers. And in the legal profession, there is a strong push to identify ‘pin-point’ cites. If you have a long post with dozens of paragraphs, it’s hard for someone to identify the source of the particular assertion.”

Snipsnap: A java-based weblog/wiki tool. [via Blogging Roller]

Monthly archives are now available.  This will probably only help in finding old links and posts.

Jeremy Zawodny:

Tip of the day. When there’s network maintenance going on, don’t try to test your work remotely (like from home at 11pm on a Friday). Why? You application will behave as if it’s on crack. You’ll wonder why. You’ll debug. You’ll become completely mystified.

Then you’ll remember the announcement from earlier in the week. The one about the pending network changes on Friday night.

Modemnet: Linux on the Desktop/Lycoris DesktopLX review.  They seem to love it.  DesktopLX seems to be errily like WindowsXP sometimes, and I don’t know how I feel about that.

Mental Note: point to news less, focus on original content more.

Galeon:

While all may seem quiet in galeon world, we are working hard on Galeon 2, a new major version based on Gnome 2. We decided to do a full rewrite of the our code base because of the huge changes in Gnome architecture, to improve maintainability and stability.

LinuxJournal: Getting started with Java on Linux.  It’s a very good installation guide.

Cory Doctorow: A Sci-Fi short story running on Salon about hacking your body.

Lawrence Lee: Monthly archives for Radio.

Ray Ozzie: “PUBLISHING IS DEAD. Gone, a relic of the past, dead as a doornail, breathless, buried. According to police reports, one-way publishing was killed off by a technology – Weblogs – that have reshaped journalism forever.”

News.com: Apple sold more than 100,000 copies of Jaguar,
OSX 10.2. Go them!

Universal Rule: Is this me?

I browsed through some of my posts here. This weblog is sort of a public notebook about software, hardware, science, and writing. I noticed that the “opinion pieces” didn’t feel quite like I had written them. That is partly due to my lack of English, and partly due to writing without polishing.

I have a pretty good handle on the English language, but I sometimes find myself frustrated with my writing.  I think I remember starting this weblog to chronicle links, news, and opinions and simultaneously hone my technical/geeky writing skills.  I’m not sure if this weblog has helped that at all, but I think it has helped me grasp a faint image of the big picture.

Mozilla 1.1: Bugfixes, optimizations, stability, and more.  You can snag it from the releases page.

I finally finished installing my beta copy of .Net Server RC1 last night on my mini-itx board.  One thing that I really like about .Net Server as compared to Windows 2000 server is that the system requirements are a little more relaxed.  You can run .NS on as little as a P133 with 128MB of ram, though I don’t think I would want to.  It seemed pretty responsive on my Via Eden 500MHz with 128MB of ram.  I probably wouldn’t use it as a server and have someone on the desktop, but it could sit on the shelf and serve things up all day long pretty quickly.

A full review will follow in a couple of days, or when I stumble upon some free time.

Cobosoda: Referral log gem of the day. It is a GPL’d version of the ever-addicting soda constructor, which I found on webmonkey a year or two ago. I found this via the Heavily Commented Chunks Found on Weblogs.com page, which is interesting in itself.