Archive for the 'blog' Category
Online Insecurity
Published July 17th, 2008 in blog. 2 Comments Tags: blogging, comparison, insecurity, Online.Ann Handley is what we north-of-Boston folks call wicked smart. Further evidence of that is found in her recent blog post: “I Suspect Everyone Else Is Smarter, Better-Looking, Taller, Cooler, Cuter, Has Newer and Shinier Objects than I Do (and Is More Modest).”
Her point is that this “comparing myself to others” schtick is not new [...]
VegSXSW, Retweeter
Published March 6th, 2008 in blog, travel and veg'nism. 1 Comment Tags: #vegsxsw, API, group, hashtag, Open Source, retweeter, SXSW, sxsw08, twitter.I’m at the airport getting ready to board for SXSW.
If you’re going to be at SXSW (interactive), or in Austin March 6th-12th, check out VegSXSW on Twitter or at VegSXSW.org.
I’ve set up VegSXSW on twitter so that it scans the tweets for those it follows and retweets anything containing #vegsxsw hashtag. I’ve also released the [...]
Second Pass at Avatar Plugin (MBLA plus)
Published January 28th, 2008 in Wordpress and blog. 7 Comments Tags: avatar, comments, gravatar, hCard, mbla, mybloglog, OpenID, plugin, Wordpress.A little while ago Alper Çuğun released an hAvatar plugin, which parses the url left by a comment author, and if it finds an hCard there, looks for an image in the hCard. This is a nice step towards URL-based identifiers rather than email based ones.
However, I also wanted to show avatars for users who [...]
IPCC Chief Links Vegetarianism to Climate Change
Published January 21st, 2008 in blog and veg'nism. 0 Comments Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Factory Farming, Green, IPCC, UN, vegetarian.As previously reported here, last year’s report from the UN International Panel on Climate Change was pretty clear, if subtle, about the idea that livestock production was a major factor in production of greenhouse gasses, and that reducing or eliminating your consumption of such products was one of the best ways you can contribute to [...]
Testing some new plugins
Published December 31st, 2007 in blog. 10 Comments Tags: avatars, comments, DiSo, gravatars, OpenID, plugins, test, Wordpress.Upgraded the blog to 2.3.2 today, and I’m testing some new plugins - apologies in advance if this post appears in the feed more than once. (I did remember this time to disable tweet-tools, so I won’t be twitter spamming.)
Testing comments via OpenID - if you enter an OpenID url in the “url” box of [...]
