I have just set Firefox 3.06 as my default browser on Windows. This is day one of seeing if it’s up to the task of being my every task, all the time browser. Previously Maxthon fulfilled that role.
I love Maxthon–the 1.6x, Classic version, not the 2.x version. Long before Firefox offered such favorite features as tabbed browsing, integrated RSS feed reading, extensible function and UI through easy to write plugins, highlighting of search or in-page find terms, and a whole lot more, Maxthon had them. In fact, many of the features that users love most about Firefox (and Camino, for th…
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ScribeFire Posted in
Blogging,
Technology | No Comments » I’m looking for a bookmarking service to make it easier and faster for me to share interesting stories I find to my Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk, and other followers. I use Ping.fm to post to those services, and I have TwitterFeed.com standing by to feed those links into Ping.fm, but I’m still missing the bookmarking service itself. So, today, in between editing an ebook and trying to figure out why chapters I edit in InCopy CS4 crash David Blatner’s copy of InCopy CS4, I’m going to be looking for a bookmark service.
I read a lot of good stories online, and find a lot of good…
Spammers are employing a new tactic to attack blogs, and it’s a tactic that could bring down anti-spam measures protecting not only the Blogosphere, but e-mail too.
Blog spammers are attacking blogs with their typical messages, but they have a new, ingenious, and potentially catastrophic trick. They’re incorporating links to legitimate, respectable domains into those attacks. The net result is that automated spam filters, even so-called “smart filters” like Dr. Dave’s Spam Karma plug-in system for WordPress-based blogs, are Blacklisting domains…
18 December 2005 Posted in
Blog Main,
Blogging | 10 Comments » Well, it’s installed. The site runs, though a few things are different.
Some of the plugins used with WP 1.2, for instance, have not been updated to function with WP 1.5. Even some of those that have, have not been updated well. PageNavi is one such plugin–at the bottom of every page used to be page hyperlinked numbers, allowing rapid navigation to different pages.
I found a couple of bugs, too. For example, regardless of the post ID, two posts with the same title will create a foul merging. This happens even with draft status posts–I watched a draft go live all on its own as part o…
02 July 2005 Posted in
Blogging | No Comments » At this very moment I’m upgrading to WordPress 1.5. While it’s an upgrade I’ve been contemplating for a while, it was one I had intended to put off for another month or two–at least until after I had finished writing my books and launched two new websites I have in the works. Regrettably, I don’t have the luxury.
Apparently today a security vulnerability was discovered in WordPress–not the version I was using, but that doesn’t matter to my hosting provider. At 2 PM EST this afternoon the provider issued an (unreasonable) edict that all sites using…
01 July 2005 Posted in
Blogging | 2 Comments » For a moment, I am going to dip into web design to illustrate why Deep Green Crystals is an example of extraordinarily bad blog design. More accurately, I am not dipping into web design; I am illuminating basic facts about readability, for the web or anywhere.
In doing some research about tags and services like Technorati and Del.icio.us that index blog content via tags, I ran across Deep Green Crystals, Martin Tobias Musings.
I will reiterate: Deep Green Crystals is an example of very bad blog design.
Why is it so bad? Visit it (or view the screenshot). Roughly half of you will have to scroll horiz…
19 February 2005 Posted in
Blogging | 4 Comments » Back in blog
I hate to say it
It’s been too long I’m high on the hog
Yes I’m let loose
From Interland’s noose
That’s kept me hangin’ on hold
I’ve keep lookin’ at the stats
‘Cause they’re gettin’ way high
Forget InterNIC ’cause it’ll never die
I’ve got six sites
blog sites
Usin’ every one of them and writin’ wild
06 January 2005 Posted in
Blogging | 2 Comments » After the first of the year I Am Pariah.com, The Memes List, and the Saturday Slant will all be back up and running at breakneck pace. They will be running off a brand new WordPress installation, on a fast, reliable server. They will run on the same servers that currently power QuarkVSInDesign.com.
I hope you’ll come back to read, and forgive my ignorance for not realizing earlier what a sleazy company my web hoster really is.
As you may have read here
Blog – Blog… Crumbling… MT… Dying…, the technology underlying this blog is falling apart. I didn’t…
23 December 2004 Posted in
Blogging | No Comments » This blog and the Saturday Slant will be down for a couple of weeks because Movable Type is falling apart.
The software on which blog runs, Movable Type running off a SQL database, is crumbling. It’s dying, a piece at a time. Comments died some weeks ago, preventing anyone–including me–from posting comments.
Now, it’s a struggle to even get a post to publish.
I have to fix the blog–read: replace the aging and crumbling MT–but I’m on the road through Thanksgiving. I can’t effect major changes to the site from here.
I’ve been working on…
20 November 2004 Posted in
Blogging | No Comments » Grrr! Moveable Type, the blog software that drives this blog, is falling apart. Error after error, problem after problem. Auto-pinging has always been an issue. Posting and commenting out of memory errors happen sporadically every few months. Now no one can comment on my posts because MT is claiming MT-Blacklist is broken. Neither the MT nor MT-Blacklist installations have changed, but now all comments are greeted with accusations of spam.
I tried switching to WordPress a few weeks ago, but couldn’t get it installed. Granted, I didn’t have time to spend hours diagnosing it.
I…
10 November 2004 Posted in
Blogging | No Comments » I want things like future posting, something I have on my pro blogs The Design Weblog and Magazine Weblog, but MT 2.6x doesn’t currently offer. I’ve been missing so many Saturday Slants lately because, when Saturday rolls around, I’m usually on a plane. If I could write it on Thurs or Fri, to activate on Sat, then life would be grand.
So, which is better–for that feature and all around? Is it WordPress or MT 3?
Is it difficult to switch to WordPress? How well will it import from MT 2.6x? I have a couple of thousand posts and even more comments.
…
29 September 2004 Posted in
Blogging | No Comments » Does anyone use BlogRolling.com any more?
I still see blog rolls all over the blogosphere, but there isn’t as much attention paid to them now as a year ago. More importantly, BlogRolling.com itself has changed.
If you keep an eye on BlogRolling.com you’ll notice that, for the last four months, it’s been quiet. Following its acquisition by software site Tucows.com, the normally busy news page was stone silent from 14 May 2004 through 9 September 2004.
During that time apparently nothing changed on BlogRolling.com.
When the news did come back, it was to announce the migrat…
20 September 2004 Posted in
Blogging | 3 Comments » Tony Pierce has a very interesting (if contentious) post about how to blog. Most of his list is right on the mark; some misses by a mile.
tonypierce.com busblog
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13. if you havent written about sex, religion, and politics in a week youre probably playing it too safe, which means you probably fucked up on #5, in which case start a second blog and keep your big mouth shut about it this time.
14. remember: nobody cares which N*Sync member you are, what State you are, which Party of Five kid you are, or which Weezer song you are. the second you put one of those things on your blog you need to delete your b…
28 June 2004 Posted in
Blogging | 2 Comments » I think this issue is being taken a little too seriously and literally–especially by the commentors on Calacanis’s original post–because of one article, which was written in early 2002 if you read the fine print at the bottom (or read the URL). Were copyright infringement on blogs really such a hot issue, we would have heard about it left and right the last two years. As Jason Calacanis proved with that one post, were any blogs to have been sued in the last two years for a dispute over Fair Use of an image in a blog, the news would have spread across the blogosphere like wildfire. A…
Color Scheme by Pixy
Cruising Toni Allen’s design post archives I found this post, Comprehensive Color Tool, which links to Color Scheme by Pixy. Color Scheme is a free, web-based color scheme tool with almost as much power as paid applications like Color Impact. What really sets Color Scheme by Pixy apart from any other color picker tool I’ve used is something very, very cool: it accounts for color blindness.
After choosing your colors, Color Scheme by Pixy let’s you preview the colors as if through the eyes of people with various types of color-blindness–protano…
29 April 2004 Posted in
Blogging | No Comments » The Magazine Design Weblog
After weeks of planning, my new project, the Magazine Design Weblog, Weblogs, Inc.’s newest commercial blog, is live as of 9:00 PT this morning. I’m very excited about this new, first of its kind, weblog.
The Magazine Design Weblog focuses on news, information, and opinions specific to the unique magazine publishing world. More than simply a design forum, the Magazine Design Weblog seeks to explore all aspects of periodical publishing, from creative to sales, publisher to advertiser, in a one-stop portal.
I’m also a frequent contributor to…
SecurityFocus: Chat, Copy, Paste, Prison
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You are engaged in a chat session with some friends and colleagues, when one of them makes a witty remark or imparts a pithy bit of information. You hit CTRL-A and select the conversation, then copy it to a document that you save. Under a little-noticed decision in a New Hampshire Superior Court in late February, these actions may just land you in jail.
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13 April 2004 Posted in
Blogging | 3 Comments » Is your blog hosted as a subdomain? Has your provider received a cease and desist letter? If so, you might find your blog taken offline. You may want to contact your provider with the information below and ask how they plan to respond.
According to the below story on WHIR, Stateline, Nevada-based Ideaflood Inc. claims that it owns the patent on subdomains (e.g. “yourblog.blogspot.com”), and that all companies using subdomains are infringing on that patent. Ideaflood is sending cease and desist letters to an as yet unknown number of hosting and service providers ordering them t…
31 March 2004 Posted in
Blogging | 2 Comments » After reading and re-reading, after much thought and the input of Strawberry Blonde, I have picked a winner in the Free Blog Makeover Contest. Before I announce the winner I want to state that there were many, many excellent entries. Choosing the winner was not easy. Still, I had to choose but one entry to win the blog re/design.
And the winner is…
Only 24 hours lef to enter the Free Blog Makeover Contest! I’ve gotten some great submissions. It will be a tough decision. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t still enter!
Get your essays to me before the stroke of Midnight Pacific Time (3 AM Eastern Time) tomorrow!
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