Meatspace trumps Cyberspace

August 27, 2004 Timothy Sanders

OK, so the move is next week. At some point between August 31st and September 10th hiddenjester.com will have to relocate the hardware to the new digs. When that happens it's IP address will change, and we'll need a DNS propagation to make everything right again. So at some point (hopefully next week) this site will disappear for a day or so. Don't worry, it will be back, on the much fatter pipe. And after that the move will be concluded, and the posting volume should pick up again. If you're using my hiddenjester email, that might bounce for a day as well. You might be better off using my gmail account next week. If you don't know that one, well bug me for it :-)

Happy Blogday!

May 6, 2004 Timothy Sanders

I realized that I started this blog right before E3 2003 and that it had to be about one year old. And indeed, my first post was on 5/7/03. So Happy Birthday to the blog. It's had some dry spells, but I've learned a lot about blogging, and we've even had some good conversations. I'll try to be a little better about posting this year, I promise :-)

RSS Fun

February 10, 2004 Timothy Sanders

That got way more complex than I thought, and I'm not done yet. But the RSS feeds got munged about a bit. The old "full text and comments" feed that used to be called comments.xml is now fulltext.xml. comments.xml is now an RSS feed with just comments. The nice thing about this feed is each new comment is a new entry in it. comments.xml is clean, according to the RSS Validator. The other feeds aren't and fulltext.xml in particular has some issues with it. But honestly, I'm tired and I don't have any more time today to futz with it. Besides, it's working in BottomFeeder, and as far as I know in any aggregator. (It wasn't clean before I started in on it - and I hadn't heard any complaints.) Anyway, I've learned a lot about XML, RSS, and Movable Type in the last couple of hours, and I'll try to publish some of it later this week. :-) For now, please enjoy the shiny new comments feed. If you're not sure you have the right feed for you, please select from the pleasing menu on the right or bottom of the entry.

Sunday - Feb 8 - Outage

February 8, 2004 Timothy Sanders

I've got to put together and install my new computer desk on Sunday. While I'm at it, I'll likely do some other rearrangements of the computers. So the web server will be down for a few hours while I rearrange. Shouldn't be too long of an outage . . . .

HTML in comments?

January 26, 2004 Timothy Sanders

So Brian mentions here that not being able to post HTML in Movable Type comments has tripped him up on occasion. I did a spot of research, and it literally is a checkbox in a configuration screen to turn it on or off. I think the default is off to ensure that evildoers can't create popups, run Java code and the like. (Hell for all I know IE has added an ActiveX control to allow you to reformat readers hard disks. So that you can install new widgest from Powerpoint or some such.) (Note that it does allow hyperlinking currently, but no HTML formatting. ) Anyway, does this really bother people? There is a school of thought that says I should turn it on until somebody abuses it. Then there is a school of thought that says comments are currently under attack anyway, this isn't the time to relax the iron fist of control. Post your opinions (in plain text, please :-) in comments!