I wish I was this good...
Stick out the downloads... The animation is worth it. I can't wait to watch the rest of them.
June 2002 Archives
pillars.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x400 pixels)
According to the creator, that image was an accident...
I'd like to be able to create accidents like that.
Update: It works!
Yup. I checked the box that automagically tells weblogs.com that I have updated my site. I wonder if it will increase traffic or something? Guess I'll have to keep an eye on my server logs. In any case, if you do by some chance happen to stumble across this site because of the pinging thing, feel free to be the first to comment on something.
I just modified the templates a little bit. They've been tested in Moz and IE 6.0. The entire system is designed to be really nice in modern browsers, but when I tested it in Netscape 4.x, it blew up and died... Now, as far as I'm concerned, that's ok, however, I need to find a way to warn the poor buggers... Maybe I'll use the @import hack... In any case, let me know if you find any issues with the changes I made.
Let me begin this by saying that I'm not exactly sure if the title of this page is a good one. Let me continue by explaining why I chose it.
I recently (as in a few minutes ago) read Meg's article, What We're Doing When We Blog. It's an excellent article, discussing blogging and what it means and looking at the actual way we do it.
A weblog is a series of posts that are updated frequently (that's my definition; read Meg's article for a more thorough one). Now back in the day (don't forget: I'm not that old, so we can't go back too far) a homepage used to be a page that someone made to express their dislikes and likes, and to publish themselves. Maybe you posted frequent update, like a "blog" and maybe you didn't. In any case, it was yours to discuss whatever you liked however you wanted. For people who posted frequently, technology was developed in order to facilitate their work. Content management systems were developed as well as personal publishing tools. The word blog, derived from weblog, was created to describe frequently updated homepages. So what's the big deal? The first comment after Meg's article seemed a little hostile to me. The writer, richard of bennett.com, claimed that blogs were a solution in search of a problem, and that 9-11 helped them find their reason for being. I think without 9-11, web logging would have found many important uses including technical support, sharing information between employees on corporate intranets, etc.
I don't know. I don't think I'm making much sense anymore. What I do know is that when a group of people, however small, is connected to another group of people, and so on and so on, like the numerous webloggers of the world are, they form a powerful network. Information is shared, spread, thought about, and commented on in a way that never was possible before. Google-bombing is a perfect example of this phenomenon. What a wonderful world.
Ah, the magic of the web...
So I was at movable type and I was surfing around some other people's blogs. It's really interesting how the web works. The gentleman who runs boing boing managed to get into a commercial for Apple computers. Kottke and Zeldman get interviewed. The people at movable type contribute to O'Reilly books. Its strange how merely writing online can change your life.
And that, to me, is what the web is about. All of a sudden, way more people than ever before can be "published". Suddenly, networks form of people with different tastes than their local friends, but similar tastes to distant unfound friends. Instantly, it turns into a small world. Technology: a wonderfult thing.
I moved all of my old posts (like all five of them or something, complete with spelling mistakes) over to the movabletype system. One thing that I found is that it isn't completely easy to add php to a post because every carriage return in the PHP gets convereted to an html break, which throws errors in the PHP (did that make sense?). So, I had to do some man handling to get it to work. Maybe in a newer version, they'll check for the PHP opening tag and then not do anything inside there, if I can find a way to explain it that doesn't sound like I'm babbling...
So I tried installing movabletype again. This time, though, it worked. I'm digging it so far. The admin interface is smooth as ice, although a little daunting with all the options and configurability (if that's even a word). I'll be moving my other posts over (although they are few, not many) and will be trying to get the content from here into my own layout. We'll see what happens.
Update: I had to cut the actual working code from this post because it kept throwing fits. Look for it to become a side bar eventually, as I stated below...
Yup, yup. I got my site back up. It turns out that I did break it when trying to fix movable type. However, I couldn't fix it because of a problem on my host's side of things.
Oh well. In any case, I finished a little project I started the other day. A long time ago, I wrote an XML parser in PHP that took a moreover XML feed and dumped it into nice output for a dynamically updated page. Well I learned recently that LiveJournal started RSS-ifying (how's that for a word?) their users' journal entries, and I just happen to have a friend that uses LJ. So, I modified my moreover script to pull his journal entries. And, in their full glory, here they are:
Look for this to become a side bar, along with some other RSS feeds that I think are nifty.
In other news, I've been using Moz 1.0 for a few days now, and its rock solid. For an interesting read, check out how to use the DOM Inspector. It lets you do some really neat things, including edit the page while you view it. I'm absolutely in love with Moz... If they only made little red lizard stuffed animals...
So I tried to install Movable Type two nights ago with no success. The admin screen for my website provided by my host is non-functional as of late. I have an email in, but have received no response as of yet. That's ok, though, since they usually respond extremely quickly. I'm only trying Movable Type becuase Kottke did it... Talk about follow the leader. I've been trying to write my own blogging software, but due to difficulties setting up a test environment, the going is slow. Oh well. I waited to log on to the net until tonight. By doing so, I missed the 1.0 release of Mozilla. I've been using it for years now (I downloaded milestone 4 I think...). I'm glad to see it being successful. Download it and try it. I bet you'll like what you see.
According to google, about 3600 pages link to www.zeldman.com. That doesn't take into account links directly to the coming page (which number about 3300, or to any other internal page for that matter. I wonder how many people started their web page because of or based on something they read/learned at zeldman.com. I certainly did. Geesh... I've been reading it since 1996, or so. Oh well. Happy belated anniversary, Zeldman.
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