It seems like a long time ago that I started this meme. I was four months late (the introductory entry was published on April 1st, 2005), and worried at the time that I wouldn’t make my goal (which, if you haven’t…
Archive for 2005
Dec 31 2005
A blast from the past
P.Z. Meyers has to think back further than I do, but it doesn’t make this meme any less painful.
Where did you graduate from and what year?
Joliet West, 2003.
Who was your significant other?
As of senior year, it was Allison. Still is.
Was your…
Dec 30 2005
Feature draft for Firefox 2, Opera 9
From the Mozilla wiki comes an early draft of proposed Firefox 2 features and timeline. It seems that it’s going to focus on very general UI improvements, like bookmarking, extensions, RSS, &c. I hope v2 makes a bit more of…
Dec 30 2005
The Search
The Search by John Battelle- Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
- Year: 2005
- Pages: 320
- See the rest of this year’s listings
- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №64
I admit immediately that my desire to read this book had more to do with my curiosity about Google itself—the Mecca of technology companies,…
Dec 30 2005
Virgin Records flogs a dead horse
Warning: this CD might not play, well, anywhere. Tough shit.
Dec 30 2005
comment_count
It seems that that culprit behind my recent comment_count debacle is Spam Karma 2, which isn’t 100% compatible with Wordpress 2. Enter the compatibility plugin, which you drop in SK2’s plugin directory, and everything seems to be peachy. All of…
Dec 30 2005
Friday Random Ten XLIV
The “Still surrounded by loot” edition.
- Pain of Salvation • Thorn Clown
- The Tea Party • Gone
- Embodyment • K-9
- Craig Armstrong • Choral Ending
- Neutral Milk Hotel • Snow Song Pt. 1
- John Zorn • Kavana
- Rufus Wainwright • The Consort
- Paco de Lucía • Tio Sabas
- Ved Buens Ende • A Mask in the Mirror
- Oasis • Magic…
Dec 29 2005
Oh noes! A bug!
It appears that upgrading to Wordpress 2.0 may break the comment counter. That certainly appears to be what’s happened to me, although the behavior is certainly sporadic. Hopefully the devs will roll out a fix soon.
I’m manually fixing the problem…