I'm testing blogger.el under NTEmacs right now because I noticed that reesesMusing says he had problems with it. I found him through DAYPOP (as well as this German blog), but I couldn't find my own blog. Wah!
I'm testing blogger.el under NTEmacs right now because I noticed that reesesMusing says he had problems with it. I found him through DAYPOP (as well as this German blog), but I couldn't find my own blog. Wah!
There, just submitted this site to DAYPOP.
Yesterday, I went down to Dauphine St. bookstore in the French Quarter to pick the brains of the owner and purchase some books for Alexis. She loved 'em. I found out the genre she likes is called "American Realism" (although she isn't necessarily stuck on America).
Generally, these are books about hard times and poverty. Stuff like Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath or Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Also, I got a copy of C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I love the dedication he put there:
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books ... you are already too old for fairy tales ... But some day you will be old enough to read fairy tales again.
Oh, yes... I also picked up a couple of books by Robert Butler, author of Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He lives in Southern Louisiana (the bookstore owner claimed he had visited once or twice) and writes a bit about the Vietnamese who live here.
This week, I sent a patch to Bill St. Clarir for his wonderful BlogMax — a blog utility done completely in Emacs. The patch (untested, but I'm fairly sure it would've worked), was code to implement one of his TODO's: pinging weblogs.com whenever a BlogMax site is updated.
Unfortunatly, he couldn't use it because it required xml.el, xml-rpc.el, and w3.el. He didn't want to have that many dependencies in his code.
Now, this is completely understandable — the fewer dependencies your code has, the easier it is to tell someone how to get it to work — but at the same time, the other school of thought is that you can make your code that much more powerful by leveraging other people's work.
Myself, I'm lazy. I prefer to leverage rather than re-bake. I prefer the well-done, baked for 2000 years, theology of the Orthodox to the post-Enlightenment theology of the Protestants.
Hee Hee — cool hack!
Now this truly is sad. ArsDigita died, in reality, over a year ago when its founder, Phil Greenspun, had a public falling out with the VC board of directors. As so often happens (see Cisco, for example), when the founder sells to the VCs, his baby eventually kicks him out.
Now, it seems that ArsDigita has closed completely and sold their assets to RedHat. Phill and aD were an inspiration to many geeks on the cusp of the dot-com boom. His writing and photography inspired even the less technical among us and got us all excited about the web.
Now that the hype is over, it is appropriate for aD to die and Philip to go back to teaching full time.