The new War News sidebar on the right is because I got tired of typing in URLs by hand; I’m gonna be glued to the news for a while and I may as well admit that and make it easier on myself. It’s not a permanent feature. I’ve mentioned most of those sites. Flit belongs to a former Canadian military guy (vague, but that’s all I know) and has some excellent unbiased analysis. Sorry about the namespace collision.
My little RSS project has foundered on the shoals of RSS parsing woes. If you have a raw apostrophe in your RSS feed, well-behaved RSS parsers will fail. Isn’t that fun? Amphetadesk works around this by just using XML::Simple directly, which I suppose I could do, but I’m kind of lazy. Mark Pilgrim wrote a nice ultra-liberal RSS parser but it’s in Python. Learning enough Python to make use of it would be easier than writing my own code using XML::Simple, I think. Maybe not. Not tonight, anyhow, either way. ...
Blogroll pruning doesn’t mean I don’t love you, it just means I can’t keep up with too many blogs. (It’s harder when you aren’t using something that pings weblogs.com, too, since then I don’t see the convenient “new!” flag. Sad but true.) It’s really no comment on quality; I dropped SCOTUSBlog which is an excellent weblog but I just don’t click through to it. Says more about me, I suspect.
As you have no doubt noticed, I’ve done a bit of a redesign, mostly based on this skin (original). I added the sidebar. Realizing that if I painstakingly redid each template before relaunching, I’d be here till April, I took a deep breath and jumped in and kicked it off, so things are gonna be a bit rough for a while.
Nothing funner than slamming in a Movable Type upgrade (original) first thing in the morning before I take off to sunny California. Looks immensely cool, though. Let me know if you see any problems. It’s worth installing, though, for a myriad of reasons readers won’t notice. Better text formatting HTML allowed in comments (hm, OK, that’ll be noticable) Creative Commons license support (gotta turn that on) The above was egregious, but also tested the text formatting. As usual, let me know if anything breaks. ...
I was looking for a way to permit random people to submit entries to Movable Type, and there’s not really any way to do it out of the box, so I wrote this CGI. It is not entirely polished; in particular, it ought to use a config file and of course the HTML is gonna need to be changed. It also ought to display a success page. However, I realized last night that I was going to wind up modifying it substantially to meet my specific needs and that it wouldn’t be so generally useful post-modification, so here you go. Note that unless you add NoPublishMeansDraft 1 to your mt.cfg file, submissions will be not be posted as drafts. More details on that here. Edit: Mmm. Yeah. Sorry about that; I stuck the CGI off in the extended entry bit.
I upgraded my back end database this morning, in the hopes that it would clear up some of the posting problems I’ve been having lately. Please let me know if you experience any problems, particularly when posting comments.
Martin Kimel (original) has an interesting blog.
I just implemented this tip. Someday I’ll be the kind of person who meticulously adds titles to my links by hand, too.
I just added Sub Judice to my blogroll, cause I’m a lawyer junkie. It’s not so much a weblog as it is a dialogue: two lawyers, discussing issues of interest to them. They’ve been talking about the Grutter v. Bollinger (original) case recently, which may well mark the end of affirmative action in college admissions. I’ve also added Confessions of a Mozillan, which is written by Dave Hyatt, one of the main Safari developers. He’s commenting on issues reported with Safari, and letting us know about fixes. This is very impressive interactivity. ...