Live from Kurihama

I upgraded WordPress today to the latest version. Hopefully, the Subversion checkout method will make upgrading easier. I changed to a clean new Theme too.

While looking through the links posts that I previously posted, I thought that I would start the laborious task of adding proper titles and fleshing out the contents, adding tags and generally making them into real blog posts. However, the link on one of the first posts I looked at was broken. Typical.

One of the reasons I started this task was inspired by the thought about whether to outsource blog hosting to a commercial site or whether to do it all myself. i.e right down to writing the blogging software. This thought came about due a session at the recent Tokyo BarCamp about whether we can trust our content to commercial sites.

Now I am wondering whether to go through all the old posts and fix up the broken links. Is there any blog software that captures the page that you are linking to in case it goes away?

I decide to go and do some tidying up as there is a lot of information here that I have forgotten and it must have been interesting to me in the past to make the effort of writing it down.

I’m going to start getting in the habit of searching my own site first for links and to write my notes here as I have the feeling I am searching for the same things over and over. After all that was what the first “homepages” were about. It was your site, your browser’s homepage.

Why does this happen? It must be something to do with Mime types somewhere. When I download a tar.gz file in Opera it thinks that it is a .tar file and then renames the extension to just .tar. Then, Winzip launches and says it can’t handle the file since it is now confused by trying to open the .tar.gz file with the a .tar extension. So then, I have to close Winzip, find the file on the file system and rename it. Renaming it in Opera’s Transfers screen just confuses Opera.

Does the problem lie in Opera’s Mime type handling or is it that the web servers that are serving the .tar.gz files are saying that they are .tar files?

Now this just makes sense to me. Embed the explanation once and for all in the picture and let the CMS organize the pages containing the photos: photo gallery for Pyblosxom using RDFPIC

[via Matt Payne] Regardless of whether you are interested in the contents or not there is 2-3000 years of experience in labelling, indexing, annotating and organizing the contents of the information in the Bible.

leobard beat me to writing about this topic and it’s application to mining information from large document collections today. I should write up my own ideas about sometime…

More links
Torah Study as Hypertext
Joel on Software: Reading code is like reading the Talmud

I just saw an interesting article on the New York times about Qmail that I wanted to link to but I have no idea how long that link is going to be current.

My suggestion is that newspapers guarantee that their articles won’t go away or be moved to another URL with the intention that people will link to them. Then they can rent the advertising space on those pages to the highest bidder.
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I have been looking for something like this for a long time. A MovableType to LiveJournal sydnication script!

As you may know, recently the blogging devleopment community has been going wild over RSS and have decided to make a new syndication format.

I thought that this had started because Dave Winer had got upset and declared some people’s feeds “funky” but now that I read this definition of “funky” and Don Parks examples of “funky” I can see what he was getting at.
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This looks like what I was looking for some time back: Adding ICBM coordinates to RSS entries:

“We have two elements which can be applied either to the or <item> elements. If applied to the <channel> element, it is assumed that the entire feed can be assumed to be about or originating from that specific location. If applied to the individual <item> (the cool way to do it), the specific item can be considered originating from or about that geolocation.”

I just upgraded to MT 2.63. Boy was that scary!

SharpReader is a 3 panel RSS viewer for Windows with filtering capability. Note that this requires that you have .NET runtime support installed.

I’m still looking for a Japanese RSS reader to show to my colleagues. It subscribed to a few Japanese feeds which seemed to work. See this Image of SharpReader with Japanese RSS feeds The filtering also works
except that the Filter text area needs to have the same font as font
selected in the options so is currently suffering from mojibake.