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webcollage

WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought (by Jamie Zawinski) Random web-scrapings assembled into an ever-changing collage of images. Some nsfw. I had thought I’d posted about webcollage years ago, but it seems I never did. Was only reminded of it because … more…

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links for 2007-10-24: wordpress hackery, Deadnauts

scompt.com ยป Adding custom columns to the WordPress manage posts screen Tutorial for adding columns to post management page in WordPress admin (tags: wordpress, dev, plugin) Deadnauts, by Ted Kosmatka A great short story of space travel, though not the … more…

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notes on the Related Posts plug-in

I’ve had the opportunity to scan rather quickly through the last year’s posts, observing the links that this new Related Posts plug-in is showing, and I have some remarks. Anyone who comes here for whatever-the-hell-else need not pursue this beyond … more…

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test post, ignore

will this go out on the feed, despite that the web site is refusing admission? hmmm?

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links for 2007-07-25: crowdsourcing, Bukowski, HTML colours

For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU tapping online gamers for pattern recognition, aesthetic appreciation, meta-information tasks (tags: crowdsourcing AI games) Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski written, that is, is the manner of… (tags: humor bukowski peanuts literature) Color … more…

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Browser share: encouraging signs

It may be anomalous (let’s face it, any traffic at all using Netscape 2.x is pretty damn anomalous in this century) but lookit: Explorer share down to a combined 37%! Firefox up to 47%! Excellent!

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New Feature (possibly)

A couple of hours from now, there may possibly be an automatic post from my del.icio.us account, if I’ve set it up right. I’m not sure what that post will look like: in an ideal world, it will be the … more…

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WP Plugin: Kottke Style Archives

Alistair Lattimore‘s gone and written a plugin that generates an archive list in the style that Jason Kottke uses at Kottke.org — which is tantalisingly close to the style that I’ve been using here. My archive panel is hard coded, … more…

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feeds on the wing

I’ve just moved the feed(s) for this blog over to Feedburner, with the idea that I will discover whether anyone is reading this blog in that peculiar manner. The new addresses are: http://feeds.feedburner.com/nexistepas/ThXM for posts and http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForEnthusiasm for comments. Right … more…

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Anticipating fireworks

Sorry to be so lame, but I’ve spent the day re-tooling the template and style sheet – not massively different on the surface, but a shade lighter underneath. Anyway, I’ve let the day go by without even considering posting some … more…

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