Brianna released the rather-intensive jQuery code for her horizontal-scrolling work in another WordPress theme, WPlatformer. It has some rough edges, but the idea was to get the code in the sunlight where some smarter javascripters might have suggestions and patches. We have an alternate implementation of the text-dividing function in PHP/WordPress template code. It is more vulnerable to breaking under any user modification of font size/spacing or other style attributes.
I will have a version of sp out by the weekend. Right now I have two distinct branches for the Habari 0.5.x and 0.6-alpha SVN versions (but the diff is minor — centered on the addition of the $post->pubdate->out() stuff).
I voted, or filled in my card at least. I guess you should vote too. Unless you would consider marking a ballot anywhere in the vicinity of the name “Palin,” in which case you’re either incomprehensibly shallow or impenetrably stupid, and I hope you stay home.
… same as the old site. But only visually. Joshix.com is a new domain, so I can after a decade or so stop begging off my company for my home page. With it comes new software — an escape from the heavy code of WordPress into the lighter scaffold of Habari.
I’ve put together a Habari version of the Simplish from Utopian.net Labs theme for WordPress, which is itself a variant of the classic Scribbish “theme for stuff.” The Habari iteration is a little different again, and it’s called sp. Sp features the usual rash of h^(Atom Card) microformats support and HTML/CSS validity. Something packaged for a download coming soon.
As for joshix.com, expect most of the content from my old blog to be imported (where it will appear, back-dated, below), and for this to become my central site. (Updated — this is done and the link to labs/blogs was circular).
The initial cap may seem high, and you might not even know what BitTorrent is. You may not even realize Comcast is deciding for you what you can and can’t do, because you don’t care to do any of the forbidden things - like surf too much, or connect to the wrong port number. Since Comcast certainly doesn’t publicize their service’s limitations, many users see an error or a timeout trying to connect to a legitimate service, and feel they’ve done something wrong or set up their systems incorrectly. Only after some Comcast support(!) and Google searching do they discover that it’s not their fault: It’s something they aren’t allowed to do.
Even if you use only a few hundred megabytes of bandwidth this month, it’s almost certainly hundreds of times more than you used in, say, October of 1998. And you consume that “small” amount of bandwidth connecting to online video, syndication feeds, photo libraries, goodweb-based email, and dozens of other features and services that even your geekiest friends hadn’t heard of back then. Every user’s bandwidth needs increase with the utility of a network that offers greater and wider services to every visitor to every site. As written in the whitepaper at the link above (via Ma.tt), “today’s power users are tomorrow’s average users.” Today Comcast took another in a string of actions forming a pattern of opposition to an expanding and increasingly useful Internet.
While this doesn’t directly affect anything we do at Utopian.net - we don’t use any Comcast services - it does hurt some of our customers who rely on Comcast to connect their home. Comcast’s increasingly un-neutral behavior can deteriorate their experience using their own site, just as it can impede their free access to every other site on the net. That’s something I care about, just like I care about the larger issue of an Open Internet. So if you’re a Comcast customer, I recommend you switch - and let them know why on the way out. Not every area offers multiple broadband options, but you can still let Comcast know you don’t appreciate them selling you access to an increasingly limited, and limiting, Internet.
After a long time in a hospital tank and at last a clean bill of health, my survivor fish (called “Lucky,” now) and his two new companions have all finished up quarantine time, waited out the cycling, and are at home in their new place. Since we’ve been watching a non-stop MST3K marathon since about June, the two new cellmates have been tentatively christened “Crow” and “Servo.”
The pictured fish has had almost as many names as color changes. I got him as a mottled orange-black pond fish. He dropped the spots, survived the raccoons, and has turned Ancient Chinese Imperial Yellow to mark his move from the wilds of a 30 gallon stock tank in my backyard to the dimmer lights of civilization above his 30 gallon bow-front.
We started a water tank to water the garden. We started the fish to eat the mosquitos that bred on “the pond.” The raccoons ate the fish… There is an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly chain of events leading to this aquarium that makes me like it more. And we still dump the water changes on the herb garden.
Utopian.net Invoice: Hosting Subscription <- notice the clever use of a series!
Summary Notice to Cease and Desist Libelous Publication
You get the idea. It’s not like this hasn’t been coveredatlength. It’s in the RFC, from 1983:
The Subject line … should be suggestive enough of the contents of the article to enable a reader to make a decision whether to read the article based on the subject alone. - RFC 850, Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages
