Cox Crow

Diving for Pearls

I'm testing two things in Radio today. 1) shortening the RSS description, and 2) upstreaming via WebDAV. The WebDAV upstream doesn't look like it's working, probably because I want to upstream using two methods at once. I'll have to read up more on this.

Of course, to test the former it helps to have more than one sentence, yes?

OK, it looks like I don't understand how to add a script to Radio. I still prefer AppleScript over Frontier.

6:15:32 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online

Testing testing

Choosing deafness

John Varley's award-winning story, "The Persistence of Vision" explores the idea that people with different sensory capabilities develop unique cultures that can be detroyed by "curing" their "disabilities." Another intersection of science fiction and real life.

I've been running through this intersection a lot recently.

3:49:52 PM # Google It!

You Princes of Maine, You Kings of New England

Maine schools begin to deploy wireless iBooks: "We are going to demonstrate the power of one-to-one computer access in a way that will transform education." — Governor Angus King, State of Maine

I hope this is more successful than the experience in Henrico County, Virginia.

3:07:28 PM # Google It!
categories: System Administration

I had a dream about Radio last night. I wonder if my dreamstate troubleshooting will work....

2:12:55 PM #
categories: Writing Online

On Monday, I ran across a site because of a link from Jon Udell's site. I finally got around to reading it last night. Oddly enough, this site, s l a m, intersects with the intent of madstop.com. My original intent with Radio was similar, then I got incensed distracted by the Senator from Disney.

There's quite a significant community, covering the breadth of experience, building around Radio Userland, which is basically stitching together syndication, aggregation, and writing, to make them all straightforward.

1:36:06 PM #
categories: Writing Online, System Administration

Red Hat Unveils CVE Security Compatibility [SecurityFocus]

This is a significant step. It makes it much easier to talk about things when we call them by their names, rather than by "that bug, y'know, the one fixed yesterday." I'm still waiting for an RSS feed.

12:20:29 PM #
categories: Security, System Administration

"The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery", by Kevin Bales (Scientific American, April 2002)

And, no, it's not about working in the Code Mines.

11:41:06 AM #
categories: Sadness

On Plagiarism

If you must write prose/poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
—The Smiths, "Cemetry Gates"

The Scientific American ran a funny column on borrowing the work of others.

11:28:08 AM # Google It!
categories: Language, Media

U.S. Patent 6,368,227: Method of Swinging on a Swing

"Are you infringing this patent? Please make sure that you (or your 10-year-old nephew) aren't." [MetaFilter] via [The Shifted Librarian]

There is NO adult supervision over at the USPTO.

10:46:27 AM #
categories: Industry, Law