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Dan Lyke is right: Slashdot has become a joke. It isn’t just the commentary. I expect that when you get 100 people to comment on something, you’ll get an awful lot of chaff to a small amount of wheat. The real problem is just their choice of articles: thinly veiled product announcements, endless incitement to […]

Where your host describes his mostly good experience in upgrading from WordPress 1.2 to WordPress 1.5. Links from the show: You can get WordPress 1.5 from wordpress.org. I’m enjoying Build Your Own All Terrain Robot. I’ll probably be ordering some windshield wiper motors for my robotics project in the next week, maybe from bgmicro. Still […]

Well, there is some support for enclosures right out of the box in the new release of WordPress, but it could still handle a bit of help. The way I hacked this into the old version was to insert two special custom fields and then wire the templates to scan for these and output the […]

Ah, another rant about Scoble. He’s got a fresh “rant” (rant is in parenthesis because it’s pretty mild by my standards) about a group in Microsoft that created a website to market a product, but (to Scoble’s way of thinking) missed the boat as to how to go about it. He’s got a point. I […]

Hey, I resemble that remark! Well, not really. I’d do this for free. How do I know? Because I do it for free.

Well, I’m running WordPress 1.5! A few minor glitches, and undoubtably I still work on the “theme” a bit, but the RSS and permalinks should be okay. Let me know if you have any difficulties.

Well, I cloned this weblog and tried out the newest release of WordPress on the clone. Basically I used mysqldump to save everything out in the current database, then created a new database and reloaded the contents, changing all occurrances of brainwagon.org to brainwagon.net. Then, I modified my httpd.conf file to route brainwagon.net to a […]

Back on February 9th, I wrote a post about how I was feeling like a podcasting hippy, because I asserted that I wasn’t going to beg people to vote for me on any of a number of different sites which attempt to rank podcasts. I didn’t really expect it to be noticed, but Dave Slusher […]

I removed the list of referers from my homepage. While it is interesting to see who is coming from other sites, it’s also clear from recent search results that I’m being targeted (although hardly singled out) by large numbers of comment and referer spammers who are presumably encouraged by even the slimmest appearance of one […]

I’ve come to suspect, as my brother has often asserted, that I’m a hippy. You won’t find me squatting in a geodesic dome, smoking plants that I grow in my garden. I don’t drive a broken down VW bus, crudely decorated with cans of spray paint. I’m not a fan of “free love”: my wife […]

A fellow blogger has a turn of good luck, even though his cat has been sick. Go read his story, and revel in the myriad of human stories that the blogosphere offers. Congrats to you Wil, and give Sketch a hug.

Russell posted a plea to Jeeves, who has just acquired bloglines.com, my preferred method of RSS aggregator, asking them to please, oh please, don’t screw it up. Amen brother. Surprisingly enough though, I did not know about the mobile version, nor the cool way to find people who are talking about you. Good tips, Russell!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve begun to use statcounter.com to help figure out various statistics about people who visit my blog. It’s somewhat fascinating to realize that less than half of my visitors come from the United States. Look at the pie chart on the right which shows the nationality of the […]

Information Week is running an article on weblogging and the workplace. It seems mostly common sense to me. For instance: Forrester Research advises companies to provide guidelines not only for company-sanctioned Weblogs, but also for employees who do them on their own time. The IT research firm even recommends that managers occasionally view the personal […]

Thanks to Doc Searls for pointing me at Jack Shafer’s article Blog Overkill at Slate. I think Shafer makes some excellent points. I do feel that many bloggers have overplayed both the idea of blogs and their own skills in an attempt to promote themselves as being as legitimate and as important as the more […]