Published on
August 20, 2003 in
General.
Was thinking about how bBlog treats trackbacks as comments and allows you to post trackbacks to comments. Was also suggesting something similar for Blogware, and wound up posting this to The Accordion Guy’s blog:
Trackbacks are, essentially, comments on your posts that just live somewhere else. Why not include them in the comments? Therefore, you’re letting people reply to the trackbacks too.
From there, it’s a logical extension that people should be able to trackback comments to comments on their trackbacks. The really interesting thing is if someone comments via trackback in response to a trackbacked comment – now you’re starting to build this massively hyperlinked discussion that instantly gives people the ability to explore more of the mind of the person posting replies, since you’re reading the full reply on their weblog.
Of course, if you’re doing a trackback to a trackbacked comment, it would probably be a good idea for the weblog receiving the trackback to the comment to send that same trackback to the parent trackbacked comment…
… if that makes any sense
Published on
August 19, 2003 in
General.
… who isn’t a fan of McAfee
Published on
August 19, 2003 in
General.
More extra special Slashdotty goodness:
The Minivan viewpoint
A more literary viewpoint
And, the obligatory Chewbacca Defense reference.
Apparently, SCO is saying they’ve had experts in spectral analysis applying their techniques to identifying source code. I’ll believe that as soon as anyone tells me how it’s relevant.
On another note, I’ve now joined Friendster. Amazingly kick-ass idea, that site is.
On yet another note, I have now spent ~$600 on textbooks for first term – and I still need another one.
Published on
August 18, 2003 in
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Heading back to school is looking to be rather expensive this year. Textbook lists just came out, and two of my textbooks are without pricing / availability information as yet, but the bill already totals ~$520 – buying whatever I can used.
Which, given the quantities available, I’d have to do today. Without online ordering.
On top of that, I just ordered a new battery ($250 shipped with taxes) for my notebook, since the current one doesn’t last for more than about 15 minutes (versus the 5 hours I could squeeze out of it when it was even 6 months old). If everything goes even remotely to plan, however, this notebook will be history next summer.
So, costs so far: Books, ~$700 likely. Battery, $250. Printer, $80. Tuition, $6120. Income from Summer Job, not quite enough.
Published on
August 18, 2003 in
General.
Large # of ppl over tonight. Most fun I’ve had in weeks – why haven’t I been doing this all summer?
Loved seeing everyone – kinda sad that Sam could not make it out, but we’ll have to work on getting him out some time soon. And Haydn seems like a pretty cool guy.
But still… ~4 months of summer and this is the most friends I’ve seen at one time, by like a factor of 4. “Next summer will be different…” (yeah, it will, because even fewer people will be around. Aaaarrghh….)
Published on
August 16, 2003 in
General.
Dear Mr. Bush, Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Eves, and Mr. Chretien:
I’m sorry, you’re all wrong. The correct answer was “I can’t really comment on the issue, due to the fact that I know jack shit about the highly complicated field of power engineering. I will, however, be consulting with experts in the field to develop, cooperatively, a solution to ensure that we avoid such a situation in the future. In the mean time, let’s let the people who need to work on this, do so without interference, so that they can solve the problem as fast as possible.”
Fix the problem, not the blame – and newer isn’t always better, Mr. Misunderestimated Bush.
(and as I’ve said before: it looks to me like the system largely did what we told it to – if you’re overloading, shut down to prevent a generator-side catastrophe)
Published on
August 15, 2003 in
General.
The eckeltricity be flowin’, now. In case you hadn’t heard, big-ass blackout starting around quarter after 4 last night. (links later). By “big-ass”, I mean decidedly so: Connecticuit to Ottawa to North Bay / Sudbury to Detroit, incl. NYC.
(what’s weird is that Grimsby never lost power).
Of course, we’re on generators at the office – in fact, we still are, because they’re still working on the power up here. Strangely (or maybe not), our Internet access never went down – so while we saw the smoke from the substation on fire in Burlytown (quite the plume of smoke, from that), we were reading online from the New York Times, CNN, Sky News, VOA, San Francisco somethingorother, etc. about what was going on.
Heck, I had no radio, but could still listen to CBC Radio One’s webcast.
So I’m here at work today, as we’ve been identified as an essential service by our employer. Expected productivity: nil.
Published on
August 13, 2003 in
General.
There’s a big hubbub these days about photo messaging – and I’ll admit, it looks like a cool technology that I’d love to play with…
If I could afford it.
I’m not talking about the phones – that’s a one-time fee. I’m talking about the actual cost to send a message:
Highway Robbery (scroll to bottom)
23 cents for a whopping 80 by 60 pixels (take your My Computer icon on Windows, double the width and triple the height. You’re in the ballpark).
$1.50 for a standard VGA 640×480 photo.
Comparison: My digital camera, at 640×480 resolution, fits about 500 photos onto a single 64 MB card. That’s $750 worth of mobile phone pics. The 64 MB card cost $30 a year ago, and the camera cost $600 3 years ago. It’s got a digital zoom that the phone doesn’t have, and probably a way better lens.
Sure, economy is not really the issue here – it’ll eventually get cheap enough for me to consider it. Until then, it’s the domain of people with money to burn, good connections, or with a WAY better Cell provider than I can get.
Published on
August 13, 2003 in
General.
Look here
I don’t mean to imply that IBM is a large immoral organization that is capable of such things, but… are the SCO execs trying to get themselves whacked?
Best nickname for SCO (since it’s “supposed” to be pronounced Ess-Sea-Oh): SCaldera. Don’t touch, you’ll get burned. (saw on Slashdot somewhere).
Best BTTF reference yet in this debate is right here