Edison Museum
March 8th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff, Travelogues |
We were really excited that the Edison Museum in West Orange re-opened late last year after a five-year hiatus.
Saturday we paid a visit.
Gravatars
February 16th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
I’ve added gravatars to the comments displayed at the bottom of posts. If you have one set up it should appear down there automatically based on your e-mail address. Otherwise, you’ll be distinguished by a rectangle rendered is a sophisticated shade of grey.
If you think this is a bad idea, by all means let me know.
Headline News
February 16th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
Unfortunate headlines appear all the time. This one seems especially bad, considering the error itself as well as the source. It’s from the pdf of The New York Times Digest that came out this morning.
Updated “Styleswitcher”
January 27th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
One of the most-read pages on this site is my Styleswitcher, and despite that I carelessly let it become broken. It’s now fixed.
Lydia Johnson Dance
January 17th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
Tonight we put the final touches on the upgrade of lydiajohnsondance.org. Despite the holiday weekend, the staff was in attendance to knock out the last few changes.
Lydia asked for all new Flash movies at the top of each page. I ramped up my Flash skills just enough to be dangerous, swapping in new photos [...]
Movable Type Multi-Blogging
November 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
Back at the day job, there’s been a groundswell of interest in the idea of having posts from one of our many (many, many) blogs appear in other blogs, automatically. For example, Mary would like certain posts from Dave’s blog that may be of interest to hear readers to show up automatically on her blog. [...]
Lab Tests and Other Nonsense
October 24th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Tech Stuff |
We were talking last night about Energy Star ratings, and how unreliable they are. For example, TVs that are tested and rated when their screens are dimmed so much you can’t see them. Or laptop batteries rated with performance and screen brightness turned down and no one doing anything on them. Or refrigerators that have [...]
Locking Down an MT Blog, Revisited
October 22nd, 2009 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
[Updated] The problem with my previous method is, from a maintenance point of view, that someone has to go in and manually (and accurately) modify the .htaccess file every time a user is added. Depending on your traffic level, that could be prohibitive. Here’s a way to have your authentication set up automatically every time you publish your blog.
Six Reasons Why Movable Type Sucks
October 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
Just off the top of my head, in no particular order, a few random things that are driving me crazy today about this blogging platform. Some of them you’ll need to have the program installed to see. But take my word for it, these are all part of the latest version of the multi-thousand dollar [...]
Throwing Down The Gauntlet At Windows
October 13th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
ZDNet’s Adrian Kinglsley-Huges recommends ditching Windows for all online financial activities, specifically banking at shopping.
Locking Down an MT Blog
September 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |
When you use Movable Type for multiblogging, sometimes you’re going to find that you want to keep readers out altogether. Here’s a way to do it using Apache’s mod_env and an .htaccess file.
Firefox Gains A Majority
September 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |
These new statistics shouldn’t cause the people at Firefox to get complacent. While IE is losing market share, Firefox is not getting all or even most of it.
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