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September 2004

Sept. 1, 2004

How to track an RSS feed

According to the HTTP specification, RSS/Atom aggregators should obey the HTTP 301 Moved Permanently header by altering the stored subscription URL for the feed they are attempting to retrieve.

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manifesto.mp3 (via) The only audio blog you’ll ever need to hear. Hell yeah.

# 5:28 am

Wikipedia is beautiful. So says Tim Bray, eloquent as always.

# 5:45 am

An Introduction to HTTP Fingerprinting (via) Identifying an HTTP server by probing its HTTP protocol support.

# 4:19 pm

Learning Computer Science (via) I agree with most of this.

# 10:43 pm

Sept. 2, 2004

BarlowFriendz: Dancarchy Reigns! RNC protesting with a smile and a jiggle.

# 1:33 am

Screenscraping the Senate. Paul Ford’s new column for XML.com.

# 1:35 am

Movable Type 3.1 Still a Developer Edition? It looks like MT is running up against the limitations of static publishing.

# 1:53 am

Blogzilla: And We’re Back!! Thanks to RSS, I never even noticed they’d gone.

# 6:36 am

The Unpolitical Animal (via) A look at what influences the average voter. Fascinating reading no matter which side you are.

# 7:05 am

Zell Miller on John Kerry... in 2001 (via) How times have changed.

# 7:46 am

Afghanistan VoIP. Thanks to VoIP, Afghanistan shares a dial code with Northampton.

# 6:09 pm

Programming, aesthetics, and religion. Another thoughtful post on programming languages from Ronaldo.

# 8:56 pm

Markdown | Gadgetopia. I hadn’t quite grokked the importance of allowing links to become footnotes.

# 11:26 pm

Sept. 3, 2004

The Age of the Essay (via) More hacking and painting.

# 2:26 pm

Spammers embrace email authentication. “More spam than legitimate email is currently sent using Sender Policy Framework”

# 6:43 pm

Subversion 1.0 packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Apparently the RPMs on RHN are two years old.

# 10:33 pm / subversion, rhel, linux, red-hat

Sept. 4, 2004

International Talk Like A Pirate Day. September 19—only 14 days to go!

# 6:26 am

gmcp—gmail copy (via) Less impressive, but probably more useful thant GmailFS.

# 7:12 pm

Sept. 5, 2004

To the MAN who DID his hoochie on my hood!! (via) Highly comical photo.

# 12:29 am

Subtracting to greatness. The less syntax a language has the better.

# 7:17 pm

Purple Numbers (for Wordpress) (via) A modified version of my plinks.js script.

# 7:18 pm

Drowning in the stream. Using Python 2.4’s generator expressions to emulate Scheme’s infinite streams.

# 7:27 pm

Answering a hibernated cry for mercy. Another point for dynamic languages.

# 8:12 pm

Hook Scripts in Subversion. Running a script before or after a commit.

# 8:14 pm / subversion

Sept. 6, 2004

Bye-bye CVS. I’ve been Subverted. I didn’t know about “svn diff -r PREV”.

# 5:32 am

Another less sleepy alternative to Hibernate. Ian demonstrates SQLObject.

# 7:35 am

Why does anyone put up with this? Windows spyware is completely out of control.

# 6:24 pm

The bookmarklet solution to the password problem

Anyone who makes heavy use of the internet has run in to the password problem: dozens of user accounts on sites with varying degrees of trustability, leading to an unmanageable proliferation of username and password combinations. The temptation is to use the same combination on multiple sites, but doing so opens you up to the horrifying prospect of a security flaw in one site compromising al of your other accounts.

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The Curse of Dick Cheney (via) With material like this, how can the Democrat campaign be so weak?

# 8:34 pm

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