I have trouble understanding Batman too. Peter Parker never needed to do voice mods behind the mask ... but Mr Wayne, on the other hand ...
Enjoy.
I have trouble understanding Batman too. Peter Parker never needed to do voice mods behind the mask ... but Mr Wayne, on the other hand ...
Enjoy.
Mike posted a note sometime back about MT's security as compared to Wordpress, and it got me thinking about switching platforms. I wanted to install a MT 4.1 test blog immediately, but a hop over to MT.org's blog suggested a wait until they released version 4.2. Okay, I thought - speed upgrade of up to 100%? Might as well wait a couple more months.
Well here it is.
And what a job they've done with MT! On one hand I'm wondering just how far you can push the envelope considering it's Perl, but the Six Apart people have built MT into a CMS with a focus on the more social aspects of the web. You get threaded comments, forums and the option to create static standalone webpages ... honest to God amazing stuff.
What are your thoughts on this? Is MT really as secure as Anil says it is? Or is it secure just because there's less people using it (like Macs)?
Wonder if anyone's watched this yet. This video went viral sometime while I was on a study hiatus (still am, actually, but I've got a one week break). Things like this remind me why I love the Internet.
Randy Pausch died on July 25 2008. God bless him.
Oh God that's got to hurt.
Gymnastics, certainly. I don't really understand the draw of track and field, though.
Oh, and Judo. =)
Brilliant. Am severely inactive due to exams at the moment, but you betcha I'll be watching these new 'uns. =)
Three Acts are up. They're good. Very, very good.
From Joss Whedon:
The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment specifically for the internet. To show how much could be done with very little. To show the world there is another way. To give the public (and in particular you guys) something for all your support and patience. And to make a lot of silly jokes. Actually, that sentence probably should have come first.
I love it already. Seen it yet?
I've seen it.
One Word: Brilliance.
A sentence: I nearly peed my pants because I couldn't bear to leave my seat to head for the toilets.
I repeat,
Brilliance.
A wonderful excerpt from Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, about World War Two. Powerful prose.
Matt Willey recently recorded his decision-making on a feature design for the Royal Academy magazine. Anyone who's designed a magazine will recognise the process -- a very useful insight into how page designs get arrived at.
Josh, I don't think I'm qualified to give you advice on this matter, but I just want to say you're doing a very, very brave thing by putting yourself in this hot seat. It is admirable, and very few people would even consider doing something like this.
Whatever decision you make, good luck, and Godspeed. I'll be praying for you.
*fingers crossed either way*
Good evening. In my talk tonight, I would like to raise the question, How is the internet changing literary style? The question has at least two aspects. First, Which traits of style change when writing goes online? Second, What are the forces that cause these changes to come about? There is a third aspect, a moral one, which I will try to defer answering until the end of my talk but which shadows the first two, namely, Are these changes an improvement?
I'm a guy, so I don't really care if it's man-made or real. But I must wonder about the economic side of this - what does it mean now that good diamonds can be made? I'd expect the value of diamonds overall to drop.
That ... would be weird. Imagine saying 'cash/iPhones/crystals are a woman's best friend'.
Project Playlist is a wonderful way to illegally download commercial music. ;P
Change makes people uncomfortable. I believe Radiohead's experiment to be a hugely successful one - I'd never have really thought of donations as a business model until now.
I don't care. Wall.E is beyond cute, and if Pixar tells a good story I'll be happy. (Anybody remember the Incredibles, and the ideas it stole - Fantastic Four, Watchmen themes, etc etc?)
When are you going to start some work on BBPress? I've been waiting ages ...
Really cool tumblelog theme for Wordpress, free.
How to create a faded watercolour effect, like the background of the Viget Inspire blog background.
Oh wow, Tyme. This is really noble of her. Good to see someone who's not let fame get to their heads.
Is it true that this is no longer US only? Because that would be ... oh God that will be crazy.
You did everything you could to save the friendship. And even if she doesn't know that, you do, so you did nothing wrong. Give it some time. Maybe - who knows? - she might come back to her senses and let this slide. There's nothing you can do until then.
George Santayana, too, despaired of a generation's ignorance, warning that 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' That was 1905.
Yesh, I have feed for every of the Chawlk sites. Gloomy and confusing. =( So much for creative typography.
@Katelyn:
But they look cool for a quick browse through (:
probably in a library, eh?
A different kind of harder. You don't have to deal with idea drought, or writer's block! Cool, no?
Great post, Scrivs.
The thing is, I can't publish consistently. So I make up for that by narrowing down my output to high quality content. Not one-off news alerts kind of posts - stuff that actually gets people thinking. And I make sure my article is at least 7 paragraphs long.
You're right about the research and the schedule and the ads and the interaction. It's hard. But if you're passionate and you love the stuff you talk about then you'd probably gain more from that than if you were just publishing for money alone. It's funny, but running sites like Facebook and Chawlk is way easier, if you consider the fact that your users produce your content for you, and you've just got to manage and market that content.
Blogging's tough business.
Whew.
Welcome, Katelyn! I hope you have a great time here!
I've had MT 4 (the open source one) installed a couple of months back. I played with it but I'm not particularly happy about the wait times every time I publish a post. I do suppose I can get used to it - and the templating system seems simple enough, but like Tyme said I don't see any use for it in the near future. I either blog, or I do sites. No multi user blogs for me.
Nobody here's got experience with Symphony? =(
Yeah, I forgot about the Peter Tan case. =( That was rather stupid, though. I mean, like Tyme said, as long as you don't edit comments you're not responsible for the comments that appear in your blog.
If I'm not mistaken Kottke covered the 'does comments belong to me or their respective writers?' a long time ago. Lemme see if I can ... yeah found it.
I agree with mikehaynes now. I'm starting to think about implementing a commenting policy. Do you have any good examples of one, Tyme?
"The children cookies you sold me taste nothing like children!" Witch to storekeeper.
Only political bloggers, though. Which is why I comment on everything but Malaysian politics.
I wonder how they do that with straight faces. I'd be cracking up by now.
I don't have a commenting policy on my blog, though from what Kami and Righton says I do think that I should get one ... when I have the time, that is, to cook one up.
I find that I don't need one, though, in the one year or so Novelr has been running. All the comments Novelr gets are intelligent, and helpful, and while there have been spats before we've (the readers and me - they often take sides, or even bicker with one another) usually come to some kind of closure. It's never troll level.
From what I've observed comments usually reflect the tone of the blog - if the blog is helpful then the comments will likely be helpful and nice too. If the blog is snarky then the comments are usually little bitch-fests. And on and on. There is a saying about birds of the same feather ... and strangely it applies very well to the blogosphere.
That being said, Mike, I think it's somewhat an honour that somebody like that would take the time to comment and disagree with everything you've said. He's annoying, true, but hey - you've got a loyal reader! (I kid, I kid).
I won't delete his comments though - deleting comments is somewhat a sin with me - but what I'll do is respond to each and every single one of his comments with a standard reply.
For instance:
That's a good argument, *insert username*.
And I'll continue doing that until he posts something intelligent, at which point I'll thank him politely for posting his thoughts rather than one word disagreements, encourage him to do more in the future, and then respond to his points in my usual manner.
Two other things might also happen - firstly he'll just stop commenting. Secondly other regular commenters (assuming you have them) will come to your defense. In which case I'll let them argue it out amongst themselves, and only come in as a moderator.
Good luck, Mike.
I'd have given them a piece of my mind. I would not have told them I was okay - I'd want them to apologize first, for them to truly realize that this is unacceptable behavior for their dog and that it could happen in the future so TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT MY LEG YOU BUSTERS!
On the other hand I would have broken that dog's neck.
Have you seen a doctor yet, Carmodyarc? I do hope it's not infected or anything. Get well soon.
» When a debate goes very very wrong ... Last Reply: 3 weeks ago by shadowsun7.
That shouldn't have descended into a race issue. Weird, weird people. I do applaud the lady giving a speech at the end though ... it seemed that she managed to resolve the issue through pure force of personality. Good on her.