I have a working prototype of my MediaWiki TextMate bundle. By this I mean I can login to Wikipedia, open my own userpage, make changes to it, and save those changes, all within TextMate. I’d try doing something else, but I’m too scared it’ll break. OK. First, the upside: I…
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FOR INCLUDING a 60‐second piece of silence on their album, the Planets were threatened with a lawsuit by the estate of composer John Cage, which said they’d ripped off his silent work 4’33”. The Planets countered that the estate failed to specify which 60 of the 273 seconds in Cage’s piece had been pilfered.
Orkut is a fascinating experiment in what happens when the developing world hits internet nerds. Basically the thing totally exploded in Brazil [like 20% of the country is on it] and the population there just started spamming every person and group in Portugese. It also never has really implemented any needed features. Nowadays I only log in to delete friend requests from guys named Paulo.
When Jeff and I ran into him in the elevator on our way out on the first night, the inimitable Shaun Inman described the breakfast buffet at our hotel as “breakfast with your blogroll”, and he was right. Our hotel was one of the closest to the convention center and it felt like “everybody” was there. It was pretty surreal to walk downstairs every morning and eat scrambled eggs with your RSS feeds.
I made a fairly large step forward in my tumblelog plugin today — I wrote a WordPress plugin that lets me specify custom key/value pairs from within the content area, which will be extremely useful when I start posting from an external client. It also lets me define specific metadata for certain post types — a quotation has an author and an optional URL, for example — which lets me move more of the markup into post‐type‐specific templates.
Regarding the "shaking" behavior of the OS X login screen when an incorrect password is typed in
- Tom Merritt (moderator)
- (in jest) Couldn’t people misinterpret that and think their monitors are just broken?
- Mark Ligameri (former Longhorn UI guy)
- No, they’re Mac users. They’d blame themselves first.
The WaSP panels yesterday afternoon were fantastic. I’m a dork, so take this however you please, but I left the meeting wanting to write specifications for things. Added the DOM Scripting Task Force weblog to my news reader.
Everyone gives out their business card as an artifact documenting the fact that they met you. Eventually all the ones I get will coagulate into a sweaty orb and will be unloaded en masse into a drawer somewhere, but before that happens they’ll be useful for remembering whose feeds I ought to be subscribing to. (Wilson and Steve got added today.) 9rules is nice, but the act of meeting people is a far better content aggregator.
I’m halfway‐listening to the Craig Newmark keynote, halfway‐coding my Ruby/MediaWiki/TextMate pipe dream. It’s not that the interview is boring — far from it — but these sessions have been more abstract than concrete, for the most part, and I need to ground myself every once in a while. Couldn’t SXSW do a handful of coding sessions, organized by language, wherein experts train novices and everyone learns something practical that they didn’t know before?
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