Archive for December, 2005

52 Books in 52 Weeks, 2005: a review

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 been paying attention, was 52 books in 52 39 weeks). I’m proud [...]

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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 Prom a night to remember?
Well, it was a prom. It was my [...]

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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 a splash than 1.5 did. v1 was, of course, huge, but 1.5 [...]

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The Search

The Search, by John Battelle. What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
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, usurping the Nerdvana title that Microsoft held for so long in the late 80s and early 90s, when it [...]

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Virgin Records flogs a dead horse

Warning: this CD might not play, well, anywhere. Tough shit.

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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 heliologue.com’s blogs have been updated. If you’ve been having problems, I suggest [...]

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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 Pie

[Feministe | Smedley Log| Snooble]

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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 where I see it (”editing” a comment in an affected post by simply [...]

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