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Instead of working on the conversion of the blog to Webby, I spent much of the day playing withjQuery and JavaScript. A good portion was mostly wasted time attempting to make the loading of thesyntax-highlighting scripts more dynamic. While this ultimately failed, it did get me to re-learn a lot of JavaScript and jQuery.Rather than...

So, I stayed up way too late last night uploading version after version of this website. I updated the version of thesyntax-highlighter I used on the one code sample I’ve posted. Nothing specialthere, but the fall-back when Javascript isn’t enabled is nicer, as it’s a pre-tag, instead of a text-area like before.I fixed all the...

Despite the utter wasteland that is this blog, I’ve decided to start posting to yet another place on the internet:Twitter. The theory goes that if you’re interested in knowing the minutiae of my life, you can follow meon Twitter (or subscribe to my Twitter feed or what have you). I, knowing that everyone looking at...

This week I’m having to finally end my use of two web applications from major vendors. Bloglines had several ofmy feeds not update properly from June 3 through June 17th. I still haven’t received any follow-up e-mail regarding the issue. Besides,for a feed-reading application, you’d think Bloglines could manage to communicate to its users through,...

A new version of Blogger is in beta now that appears tohave the features I’ve been wanting. Now if only I could get in on the beta…Update: How will the new dynamic architecture impact those of us using the staticFTP-to-my-server functionality?

Niall Kennedy made the switch.Now will Blogger step up?

Bloglines now has Atom 1.0 support, and though there are some problemsthere still, it’s time for a new target. I’m sure it’s clear from all my posts that I’m a big proponent of Atom 1.0. However, I probablyappeared to be a bit of a hypocrite, using an aggregator that didn’t support it, and only providing...

Bloglines has begun adding suport for Atom 1.0

It’s odd. Suddenly Tim Bray’s ongoing feed wasworking correctly in Bloglines. Wow! Atom 1.0 support, finally?But no, they’ve just automaticallyswitched over his Atom feed to his RSS feed. I guess that’s oneway to get rid of complaints…

…and other feed readers still don’t get the basic features right. What’s a heavy reader of feeds to do?This promise regarding Atom 1.0 support has gonetotally unhonored. I can think of no meaning of “as soon as possible” that means you can’t get a simple case that other aggregators handlecorrectly in almost 5 months.While this...

Scoble asksWhy don’t you use a memetracker?. Check out the comments, as Iagree with most of the answers. Summary: not enough new stuff, not a useful format, and, finally, why would I?What would a useful “Memetracker” look like? First, it will have to integrate with my feed-reader/aggregator (do we have a single agreedupon name for...

Google is starting to integrate its Google Talk application with Gmail. Right now it’s just the ability to centrally store your chat logs, but it promises web-based chat to come. I’m excited!

Scoble frequently posts about Microsoft sites not using RSS. I know it's mentioned in a comment there, but I think Xbox.com is a major candidate for adding feeds. I want:A feed for new Xbox 360 game releasesA feed for additions to the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility listA feed for new content added to the Xbox...

Scoble asks if theXbox 360 is a Web 2.0 product.I love my Xbox 360, but no, it's not Web 2.0. For as far as this Web 2.0 concept means anything, it's about open methods of sharing: RSS, API's for web applications, etc. It's cool that I can download things from the Xbox marketplace, but that's...

If you use Bloglines, you need to read this. It's a pretty significant security issue. In addition, it's a sign that Bloglines is unresponsive. While fixing a security hole is high priority, they also still haven't fixed this either. That's from September, by the way. So, I'm in search of a new web-based aggregator. Any...

Bloglines just added keyboard shortcuts! I'd been impressed by the keyboard shortcuts in Google's new feed reader, but didn't like the interface for reading new items by folder/label instead of all at once (it's possible to do what I do with Bloglines, but it takes up too much screen real-estate when you do). Now Bloglines...

My Web has made more of their pages public. That includes the ability to get RSS feeds! So, here's my feed for my public saved pages. Think of it like a second linkblog, but less focused on timeliness, and more focused on usefulness.

Standards and CSS planned for IE7. It's great to hear about all the fixes they plant to implement. I think it's great that they used PositionIsEverything and QuirksMode to develop their list. For anybody who has had to implement hack to deal with Internet Explorer in a website design, go over there, check if the...

I still have a Flickr Pro account to give away. That's a $24.95 value. If anybody who reads this blog wants one, let me know. I'd prefer to give it away to someone I know, since I don't use e-mail, I figure this is the best way to announce it. If no such person turns...

Check out Google's newest product: Google Gulp. I especially like how the labels indicate that it's a beta product...

I don't know why I didnt notice before, but Flickr has a very cool "Notes" feature that lets you associate a note with a section of your photograph. This picture is the first I've used the feature on. Plus I've got a comment partially describing the interesting situation.Ryan has an even better example of using...

I just purchased a Flickr Pro account for two years. After I started to put in all the pictures I currently have here on the site, and noticing the limitations on free accounts, I decided to go ahead and shell out the money. It's a great product, and I don't mind paying for it at...

"Links...of...Interest!"I've finally decided to use Bloglines handy feature, the Clip Blog. I'll put all the interesting posts I find, but that I don't have anything interesting to actually say there. I won't bother to put a synopsis, or anything, so you'll just have to trust my judgment that the posts are worth reading. By the...

Scoble supports the Microsoft vision that so-called "Smart Clients" are the future, instead of web-apps. He says:Why? Well, it isn't hard to see how an app that runs locally would be able to make users more productive.Beware phrases like "it isn't hard to see" or "obviously". All it really means is "I'm not going to...

Scoble says AutoLink is evil. For the record, I fully accept that this is Scoble's heart-felt opinion on right and wrong for the web. I just think he's misguided.How different is this than the right-click functionality in Firefox ("Web Search for..."), or other extensions. For instance, a Map extension that lets you highlight an address,...

Google just gave us a new one. And boy is it good. First, it gives us what Google does best: a simple search. You can simply type the whole search in the single simple input field and get your results. Second, it gives a very slick interface that allows us to interact with the map...

TobyWithSheet Originally uploaded by jrduncans. Just testing adding a photo and posting it to the blog with Flickr.

If you use Firefox and want to see if this new tag is getting used, add something like this to your userContent.css file:a[rel="nofollow"] { text-decoration: line-through ! important; border: dotted thin gray ! important; color: gray ! important; background-color: white;}This will put a strike-through and a dotted border around the link text, and make the...

As soon as I heard Google's announcement on preventing comments-spam, I immediately thought of another use of this technology. But, wouldn't you know it, Scoble already brought it up. In fact, he makes it the center of his post, and leaves the "comment-spam prevention" as an aside at the end.I think Robert's on to something....

Welcome my wife, Diane, to the blogosphere, and witness her get drunk on the power of self-publishing.

Google Suggest Beta. Very cool. Suggest search terms as you type. I've got to learn how they do that javascript, though. (Yahoo! Mail does similar for your contact list...)

Here's a collection of all my Browser Spoofing posts:Browser Spoofing Browser Spoofing: Defining The Problem Browser Spoofing: Determining the Criteria Browser Spoofing: Examining the Solutions

First, read Jesse Ruderman's take on the issue from last month. Then, check out my definition of the problem and the criteria for a solution.Proposed Solution #1: always show the address barOk. This does solve the problems. Now, only internal dialogs can show without an address bar. Since Mozilla added security information to the address...

So, we know what the problem is, I think. But that doesn't quite get us to what criteria we'll use to judge possible solutions.Obviously, the first criteria is that it needs to make it possible to identify spoofing in the situations listed in the problem description. But, does it just need to possible by a...

I've decided to take this issue slowly; most people's "solutions" are already assuming a certain definition of the problem, which is rarely stated.The problem has little to do with Mozilla's ability to display remote XUL. This just makes a convincing spoof easier, although it limits the spoof to Mozilla-based browsers, and usually to a subset...

A summary, as well as some proposals for Firefox UI to handle Spoofing of the Browser's User Interface.Check out my comments there firstThere's been some level of "theoretical" work on this issue, which comes down to the claims mentioned in the entry mentioned above: that it's not enough to do some kind of warning about...

Normal "Web Applications" consist of HTML and Javascript on the client side, and one of many types of server-side languages (I use Java/JSP). There are two problems with this. The first is the degree of interactivity on the client: there's only so much you can do with Javascript to make an HTML page feel interactive,...

I know by this point, everybody who wanted one has one, and I don't even use mine anymore (I don't email that much, to be honest), but I apparently have 5 G-mail invites available, so if you want one, e-mail me. Preference will be given to e-mails from .mil addresses.

So, how long before Google starts integrating all it's neat services? I'd sure like to see people be registered to post in my blog by already having a Orkut or Gmail account. Plus I'd like to have a single log-on to all the systems. That's one of the nice parts of Yahoo.

Google's indexing of this site at it's new location has been interesting. For a while, only the main page was indexed. Now it seems like only the next level deeper is indexed (you can see the indexed files by searching for '*' in the Google search bar on the side of the page). Since that...

Interesting read. On the one hand, this article focuses on structure that is customized. On the other hand, I see some utility in doing things like consuming one's e-mail via an RSS-type feeder. It's not a coindidence that RSS feeders are also called aggregators. That's another thing they provide other than handling more structure files:...

Another nice thing Yahoo provides is a place to store all your bookmarks. By itself, that's not that useful. But they have the Yahoo Companion Toolbar, which integrates into Internet Explorer . There's also some work to provide a version of this for Mozilla and Firefox. It's still a bit buggy, but it looks promising...

I've been using Yahoo's "My Yahoo" portal as my front page for a while. Chris Snapp, who I work with, is big on using Yahoo for all his e-mail, contacts, and bookmarks. As he's been exploring more of Yahoo's features, he's pointed them out to me. So, this weekend I started to expand My Yahoo...

Another note: Nation StatesA great, fun little web game. You make a country, however you'd like, and decide on issues to run your country. I've got 3 countries, because, well, I do things over-the-top. Anyway, if for some reason there is someone out there actually reading by weblog, despite the my lack of posting, who...

Ok, so my promise of more frequent posting hasn't panned out, as usual. But anyway, hi, how're you doing? I've been spending much of my online time recently at X-Forums, primarily the Something Positive section. It's fun and interesting, but maybe you shouldn't read it. I don't know what all I've said there, and, yeah,...