My FoaF file is now available!
If you don’t know what this means, no worries. Go on with your life. :)
If you don’t know what this means, and are up for some geekspeak, or if you do know what this means and are up for some geekspeak, read on….
Tech
Tech-focused ramblings. Computers, blogs, and whatever else fits.
Recommended reading?
This could be interesting — Mark Pilgrim has set up a Recommended Reading script that analyses your web page, and then suggests other sites that you might find worth reading. I ran it on The Long Letter, and came up with a an interesting list of sites to check. About half I already read, but I may need to add the other half to my newsreader.
T minus 2 hours and counting
Happy Halloween!
November is almost upon us. As I’ve mentioned a couple times previously, this means that rather than the usual babble about whatever random things cross my brain, either ‘net- or life-inspired, my blog may very well be somewhat neglected.
Instead, I’ll be turning off my PC, closing down my web browsers and newsreaders, leaving my instant messaging programs off, and focusing on diving into the wierd and wonderful world of becoming…
(Drum roll, please.)
…a Novelist.
I’ll be posting my progress as I go, so feel free to stop by and keep track of how I’m doing. Hopefully, it will at least be interesting. ;)
Kung-Tunes upgrade
Just upgraded to Kung-Tunes 1.9.0. There’s now a bit less information displayed for the currently playing track, but it displays a history of the last few tracks I’ve listened to. Cool stuff!
Small updates
Finally grabbed some time to do some small updates to the site I’d been meaning to do for a while now. There have been a few updates to Untitled as I prepare for NaNoWriMo, I’ve (finally) posted a new picture to WudiVisions, and I re-enabled the smiley hack that’s been broken since the upgrade to MovableType 2.5.
‘Bout damn time! ;)
Mac fun and games
Amsterdam Mac users certainly come up with entertaining ways to amuse themselves — creating Mac porn, having an Ellen Feiss Lookalike Contest, and tossing PC’s across a parking lot.
The picture shown here was by far my favorite of the PC-tossing pictures. While it’s most likely just an ‘elephant picture’, it looks either incredibly fey, or good ballet form.
Or both. In any case it made me laugh.
(Thanks to this Wired article about the lookalike contest.)
A reminder
Just a quick reminder — NaNoWriMo kicks off in just over a week. For the month of November, posts to The Long Letter may be pretty sparse, as I’ll be spending the majority of my free time from work either fighting my way through my NaNoWriMo attempt, or huddled in a corner, rocking back and forth and quietly gibbering to myself when I actually realize what I’ve gotten myself into.
Also, a quick word of warning from the NaNoWriMo website:
You are an arteest, and no longer have time for things like cooking and grocery shopping and laundry. Start demanding favors and treats from friends and loved ones now. That way they’ll be fully acclimated to the new you once November rolls around.
Valid RSS
Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby have just created an RSS Validator. I’ve run my feeds through, and can now ensure that I offer valid RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 feeds for use with newsreaders/aggregators.
I even managed to get my own little addition to the feeds going without breaking them — yay!
Admittedly, I can’t honestly say I really know or understand the difference between RSS 1.0 and 2.0. But hey. They’re both there.