Wednesday, March 16, 2005


Didja Miss Me?


Leave the blogosphere for a minute and it goes to hell in a handbasket, I tell ya… I missed a lot of teapot tempests, but I trust my past biases and tendencies would probably have clued you in already as to where I’d fall on so many of these… er, burning questions. I’ll try to plow through all this inside baseball bullshit in a single post so as not to befoul the actual interesting things I could be writing about with them.

Anyway, I’ll just start tossing list bullets at Markdown and we’ll see where it gets me.

  • I can’t believe people are still wasting time talking about how to make sure readers can find your syndicated feeds with stupid goddamn icons. Mom, avert your eyes… Listen, PLEASE let’s get the ramming of the MyYahoo and fugly orange XML and the coffee cups and all that other garbage up the asses of the developers too stupid to figure out autodiscovery! FACK THAT NOISE. There are better ways to do this.
  • Once it’s in my browser, I will fold, spindle, and mutilate at will. Tools that let me do this, as long as I’m in control of the Big Red Button, are A-OK with me. If you, as a publisher, can’t handle this, I hear there’s this advanced technology, Big-Ass Clay Tablets Engraved With Flaming Fingers, that will let you make sure that everyone sees your content exactly as you laid it down.
  • If you’re reading this in an aggregator, you may not have seen the icon on the main blog page that makes it clear that I’m very short, brown, male, with a head much larger than the rest of my body, and living in a cold climate. I’m still trying to figure out why this is important, but it apparently matters to some (koff) leading lights in this field.
  • I haven’t quite wrapped my head around what Opensearch is going to get us, but I’m sure it’s going to be something useful. Definitely something to watch. As an aside, I’ve been using A9 as my default search engine for months.

:: Dave Walker 11:12 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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:: Comments (3)

Comments:

Phil Ringnalda wrote:

Title:

Date: 3/20/2005 03:22:51

Response:
I've been missing you for a while, I think, and I'm not reading in my aggregator, because it won't let me. Magpie's claiming "not well formed: invalid token" which doesn't entirely seem true, but makes more sense than the feedvalidator's error about "Invalid HTML: EOF in middle of construct." I did try to come up with some comment on the "we need more bloggers who don't need much sunscreen, and who pee sitting down!" thing involving your short-legged brownness, and how I had no opinion about your skin color before seeing it, and not much after seeing it (since your weather pixie seems to be saying you are a French woman with a standard poodle) but... (much agitated handwaving and pacing) I'm so desperately eager for more tech bloggers who can talk about interesting stuff without confusing me that I don't care if they're mauve castratos who pee on themselves because they can't decide whether to stand or sit. I say, get past the blogroll quotas, and get to linking to these people I should be reading! Then I realize they are talking about blogging about political opinions, and remember that I think everyone has one, and I mostly wish they wouldn't show it to me.
d.w. wrote:

Title:

Date: 3/20/2005 19:13:40

Response:
I had a little throwaway post that used an entity-encoded "ffl" ligature, and it seems to throw all our dumb, dumb software for a loop, of course. I give up. US-ASCII is the only thing guaranteed to survive. I might as well be banging away on an old teletype.
New Zealand wrote:

Title: NZ

Date: 8/16/2005 03:24:07

Response:
Great!



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