http://blog.soldoutactivist.com I care about the world, just not the people on it. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:14:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not really so much a dream as a fragment. I am in the bedroom, and I get a call from my girlfriend, from the living room. She tells me that she accidentally killed one of our cats. My dream implies the cat was killed under the recliner which we are always ... http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/creepy-dream If you thought that names like Tookie, Alquan, or Sheananalae were horrible names, apparently we were a step behind the curve, behold from New Zealand: Officials had blocked [names such as] Sex Fruit, Keenan Got Lucy and Yeah Detroit, he said, but Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence and Midnight Chardonnay had ... http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/the-scourge-of-altruism-dumbasses So we are in Houston now. But my internet connection was 1.5 hours that way. Until, well, about 1.5 hours ago when I disconnected it. On the upside, I get a check for $16.51 from my old ISP (about as useless as an economic stimulus check), but I won't have ... http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/the-move-of-unbearable-disconnection Heinz releases a commercial. In the commercial, a stereotypical family is starting a stereotypical day. The mother is preparing lunches for the family, getting it right for each of the children. The father comes in, of course, in a rush, and takes his lunch. The wife calls out to get ... http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/so-retarded-its-gay Most of you will recognize the image at left, the share icon that has taken over the blog world. I forgot who came up with the icon, but (edit) Tom gave me the proper link. My first thought was, "Oh god. I hope it doesn't become popular." But it did, ... http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/semantics-in-web-icons Just some bug fixes. This post was actually testing the plugin so give it a few minutes to appear. Project page http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/pingpressfm-214-released Removed user's need for developer API to match Ping.fm's API changes. You should update if you are using an older version. http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/pingpressfm-212-released On my todo list was: make s3nt timestamps based on milliseconds instead of seconds And I didn't do it. What happened was that two people posted a link at the same second, and it wasn't returning the right latest row and therefore the new hash for the short link had already ... http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/s3nt-back-up A friend came up with a good idea: Twitterbacks, Pingbacks for Twitter. I suggest that Summize jump on that, but that's because I like Summize more than the others. http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/twitterbacks-pingbacks-for-twitter To start, I don't hate the idea of OpenID, I'm just passionate in my reasonings. As with everything else. It has been noted by various people, various people I will quote as soon as I can find them again, that OpenID is a nifty idea with many logic holes. And I ... http://blog.soldoutactivist.com/horror-openid-is-passwordrm