Monthly Archives: August 2007

BB minus ego

Can someone make a Yahoo! Pipe that will omit posts from Boing Boing that mention the author of the post in the title?
I’ve found that 99% of the time, such posts are just the authors fluffing their personal projects.

How to do an Atom linkblog

John Gruber is having some Atom linkblog troubles over at Daring Fireball.
Mark Pilgrim’s “How to make a linkblog in Atom” is a little dated (some of it is specific to Atom 0.3), but the part about using rel=”alternate” to point to the permalink (on your blog) and using rel=”related” to point to the item you’re [...]

Simon Willison on jQuery

Simon Willison has a great writeup on jQuery for JavaScript programmers. WordPress has caught the jQuery bug, and we will be rolling out its implementation more and more as we iterate versions. Simon’s post has a good sampling of the kind of stuff you can do with jQuery. My advice is to [...]

dist-upgrade from airport considered dangerous

Note to self: do not attempt Debian dist-upgrade from an airport, 10 minutes prior to boarding.