Net News Wire for 2005
Picked up the Net News Wire 2.0b10 release and it rocks! This is THE newsreader to use if you’re on a Mac hands down. The way it renders Atom feeds and deals with enclosures in RSS 2.0 is awesome. Got Mac? Get Net News Wire.
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Dave Winer: “Before the year is over, a hearty Fuck You to all reporters who recited the list of top podcasters and left out my own humble pioneering podcast. I was podcasting before any of those losers, you loser. Who the fuck do you think taught them 1. How to do it and 2. (more important) That they could do it. You reporters are schmucks. I figure since you never write about me, I could go ahead and piss you off, who cares what you think since you obviously don’t care what I think. Fuck you. No smiley.”
In A Pickle
I have a small problem and I’m not quite sure how I’m going to handle it. I’m now doing a lot of shooting with my D70 and posting the photos to my Flickr account. Several of you (like Joe, Dane, and Phil) are in my contact list so you see when I put something new up but the majority of you don’t.
I’ve been cross-posting some of the photos over at Campinguy.com but something is breaking my WordPress installation and I’m daily having to upload the index.php template. On days I forget to upload the template or if it breaks in the middle of the day, you’re screwed.
For those of you using an RSS reader the answer is simple, add the RSS (or Atom) feed to your aggregator. That’s how I keep track of what everyone is posting.
But what should I do for those of you not using an RSS reader?
There is the Flickr Zeitgeist which shows recently uploaded pictures. There’s also the option of messing with the API and hacking together a script to place a rotating image onto the site or pulling the RSS myself and writing some code to extract the image URI’s from that. Both entail more work than I’m wanting to put into it at the moment.
Going to think about this one for a bit. Have I mentioned how great RSS readers are for keeping up with a lot of sites and how almost EVERYBODY is offering RSS feeds now? In fact, most of the major browsers (except Internet Explorer) have the capability of subscribing to RSS feeds? Ask me more about using an RSS reader and I’ll be glad to share with you what I know.
IN ADDENDUM: A solution? Flickr has a “badge” which allows you to specify how many photos and what size to put on your blog. If you’re reading this and you’ve visited my site you’ve no doubt noticed them off to the right.
You really should use an RSS reader though. It’s very advantageous as it allows you to see when posts have been updated as well as when new stuff is added.
Andertoons
Check out Mark Anderson’s stuff over at Andertoons. You won’t be sorry. Unless you fall out of your chair and break your tailbone that is.
Good stuff to make you laugh.
Blogs Aiding In Disaster Recovery
BBC: “Some of the most vivid descriptions of the devastation in southern Asia are on the internet - in the form of web logs or blogs.
Bloggers have been offering snapshots of information from around the region and are also providing some useful information for those who want to help.”
Living With The Horror
One of my friends came across this shot of the aftermath of the tsunami. It’s pretty graphic so don’t look if you’ve got a weak stomach.
The Graphing Calculator Story
Dave Winer posted a link to this awesome story that I feel everyone should read. It teaches one of the greatest lessons in life.
Read the excerpt here then follow the link over to read the complete story. It’s worth the 10 minutes. Trust me.
The Graphing Calculator Story:
“I used to be a contractor for Apple, working on a secret project. Unfortunately, the computer we were building never saw the light of day. The project was so plagued by politics and ego that when the engineers requested technical oversight, our manager hired a psychologist instead. In August 1993, the project was canceled. A year of my work evaporated, my contract ended, and I was unemployed.I was frustrated by all the wasted effort, so I decided to uncancel my small part of the project. I had been paid to do a job, and I wanted to finish it. My electronic badge still opened Apple’s doors, so I just kept showing up.”
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from all of us here at The Daily Thing.
th3Ph17: Live from Santa Cruz
Dude. Don’t EVEN start.
th3Ph17: “santa cruz is awesome. yesterday after my second interview at a publishing company i wandered around, ate some lunch at a cafe by our apartment–and then after receiving the Your Hired phone call, I took the 10 minutes or so to walk down to the beach just in time to catch pre sunset ocean light. i hope that in the years ahead i never lose sight of how beautiful it is there.”
I hate this perpetual layer of fog crap and you know it. May a banana slug take up residence in your left shoe. So when can I come visit? You want my old USB webcam so you can hook us up with a view to rub in how miserable it is in the Valley?
Santy Worm Infects Servers Running phpBB
Antivirus companies are warning internet users about a fast-spreading new worm that infects web servers running a popular package of online bulletin board software, and uses the Google search engine to find vulnerable servers to infect.The worm, dubbed Santy.A, uses a vulnerability in a popular free software package called phpBB to spread across the internet, infecting computer servers that host online bulletin boards and defacing those sites with the words ‘This site is defaced!!! NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm.’”
What’s odd is this worm appears to have infected the server where I have campinguy.com hosted. Three times the index.php page was taken down and replaced with the defamed page. Finally, I changed permissions and the defamed page stopped appearing although something is still meddling with the pages and I’m having to re-upload the index page every day. I’m not sure if it’s something to do with the worm or something in the WordPress installation. I’ve contacted the ISP so we’ll see what happens after they run a virus scan on the server.