Phillip Pearson - web + electronics notes: Posts from 2003

Wednesday, January 1, 2003

Note to self

Thursday, January 2, 2003

nForce2 under Linux

Friday, January 3, 2003

New rdflib release

Sunday, January 5, 2003

New in Python 2.3

Sunday, January 5, 2003

Unnoticed RSS error

Monday, January 6, 2003

bzero 0.14 available

Wednesday, January 8, 2003

bzero 0.15 available now

Wednesday, January 8, 2003

RSS timezone issue when importing

Sunday, January 12, 2003

Python Desktop Server

Monday, January 13, 2003

New and improved

Tuesday, January 14, 2003

RSS to blog

Tuesday, January 14, 2003

Page design competition

Wednesday, January 15, 2003

LazyWeb update

Friday, January 17, 2003

New on the Topic Exchange

Sunday, January 19, 2003

Creative Commons explained

Sunday, January 19, 2003

Links to explore later

Sunday, January 19, 2003

Organised topics

Sunday, January 19, 2003

Comment tracking

Monday, January 20, 2003

You Know Me - tracking conversations

Monday, January 20, 2003

PyDS now has built-in Topic Exchange support

Monday, January 20, 2003

Note to self

Monday, January 20, 2003

Why Java?

Friday, January 24, 2003

Open Standards Architectures

Sunday, January 26, 2003

Interesting find

Tuesday, January 28, 2003

bzero version 0.16 available

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

More powerful blog editing via e-mail

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Heh

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Experimenting with Firebird

Thursday, January 30, 2003

Blawgistan Times

Friday, January 31, 2003

InterBase trivia

Friday, January 31, 2003

InterBase key lengths

Saturday, February 1, 2003

Julius Caesar

Sunday, February 2, 2003

Tuning InterBase

Sunday, February 2, 2003

E-mail experiment

Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Did you know?

Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Search engines

Thursday, February 6, 2003

Radio's direction?

Sunday, February 9, 2003

Odd

Sunday, February 9, 2003

First 'real' reference

Thursday, February 13, 2003

Extending Python

Saturday, February 15, 2003

Early search results

Saturday, February 15, 2003

<woah>

Sunday, February 16, 2003

Broadband Mechanics

Monday, February 17, 2003

Another topic exchange

Wednesday, February 19, 2003

100 Bloggers

Thursday, February 20, 2003

SocialText

Thursday, February 20, 2003

haha!

Friday, February 21, 2003

Auto-discoverability for topic servers

Saturday, February 22, 2003

distutils even better than expected

Saturday, February 22, 2003

Java impressions

Saturday, February 22, 2003

Need my own notebook PC

Sunday, February 23, 2003

Py Parlour Press becoming a bit of a Python portal

Sunday, February 23, 2003

distutils about-face

Monday, February 24, 2003

Semantic blogging tool?

Monday, February 24, 2003

Blosxom <-> PyCS

Monday, February 24, 2003

comp.lang.python rocks

Thursday, February 27, 2003

Quick news aggregation

Friday, February 28, 2003

PyCS is now searchable

Sunday, March 2, 2003

Scott Lewis is back!

Monday, March 3, 2003

The other ecosystem returns!

Tuesday, March 4, 2003

wxWorkshop

Wednesday, March 5, 2003

RFC: Easiest way to set up a secure home weblog?

Thursday, March 6, 2003

Frontier DLLs

Thursday, March 6, 2003

Google dance

Friday, March 7, 2003

FM Radio Station "Preview Edition" now available

Sunday, March 9, 2003

Calendars for the Topic Exchange

Sunday, March 9, 2003

timbot: more on regular expressions

Monday, March 10, 2003

Radio tip: Getting tools to use the default template

Monday, March 10, 2003

What happened to the BlogTalk site?

Monday, March 10, 2003

Link basket

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Server trashed?

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

We're getting somewhere ...

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Today's links

Thursday, March 13, 2003

Python: How to fork and return text from the child process

Thursday, March 13, 2003

htdig integration

Thursday, March 13, 2003

ht://Dig static member variables

Thursday, March 13, 2003

PyCS has better logs now

Thursday, March 13, 2003

Dan Sugalski has a blog

Friday, March 14, 2003

Towards structured blogging

Friday, March 14, 2003

Getting my CD writer working

Monday, March 17, 2003

Linux UDMA

Monday, March 17, 2003

MOO mailing lists --> RSS --> topic exchange

Monday, March 17, 2003

Perl, Java, Python

Thursday, March 20, 2003

Does Mozilla's HTML editor control work now?

Thursday, March 20, 2003

Eve of the war

Thursday, March 20, 2003

Goto statement considered useful

Sunday, March 23, 2003

One year blogging

Monday, March 24, 2003

PHP5

Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Busy

Saturday, March 29, 2003

Search engine nearly there

Saturday, March 29, 2003

E-mail broken

Sunday, March 30, 2003

PyCS ht://Dig code available

Monday, March 31, 2003

"Let's make a deal" gameshow explained

Wednesday, April 2, 2003

PyCS search, continued

Wednesday, April 2, 2003

Proper C++ macros?

Thursday, April 3, 2003

"I really must learn that language"

Tuesday, April 8, 2003

PyCS search

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

chrooted Debian install (on Red Hat)

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

Getting PuTTY to work well with FreeBSD

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

Philip Greenspun

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

Wow

Thursday, April 10, 2003

PyCS search - fixed?

Friday, April 11, 2003

About the Python Community Server (and how to move a blog onto it)

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

New RSS features on topicexchange.com

Thursday, April 17, 2003

One year ago ...

Saturday, April 19, 2003

OPML directory browser (for .Net)

Friday, April 25, 2003

Backing up with tar and ssh

Saturday, April 26, 2003

Eclipse

Saturday, April 26, 2003

Back on this search engine

Saturday, April 26, 2003

Integers in Java

Saturday, April 26, 2003

TrackBack in Radio and community servers

Sunday, April 27, 2003

Milestone

Sunday, April 27, 2003

Cutlery

Monday, April 28, 2003

OPML directory browser now open source

Monday, April 28, 2003

RSS + ENT aggregator

Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Search progress

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Eclipse vs IDEA

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

GeoBlog

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

PYCS.NET one year old?

Thursday, May 1, 2003

mpt on blogging software

Friday, May 2, 2003

OPML directory browser: activity

Sunday, May 4, 2003

Weirdness in the referrer log

Wednesday, May 7, 2003

Handling authentication in Lucene

Wednesday, May 7, 2003

CVS and SourceSafe

Thursday, May 8, 2003

Writing a custom Query object in Lucene

Monday, May 12, 2003

JavaLobby Community Platform

Monday, May 12, 2003

Need more RAM

Monday, May 12, 2003

CornSharp

Monday, May 12, 2003

Technorati/Python

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Technorati/Python v0.02

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Project website generator?

Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Mac OS X SSH configuration

Thursday, May 15, 2003

User-supplied access restrictions

Sunday, May 18, 2003

The Matrix on the Topic Exchange

Tuesday, May 20, 2003

C++ default copy constructor considered harmful

Wednesday, May 21, 2003

eVectors @ BlogTalk

Wednesday, May 21, 2003

A Socio-Technological Approach to Sharing Knowledge Across Disciplines

Sunday, May 25, 2003

Minor change to the comment monitor

Monday, May 26, 2003

Handling dates and times in Python

Monday, May 26, 2003

k-collector backend

Monday, May 26, 2003

bzero 0.17 released

Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Free cross-browser rich text editor code

Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Finally saw Matrix: Reloaded

Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Blogging tool feature requests

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Is anyone using XFML?

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

BlogCount counts blogs

Monday, June 2, 2003

Downhill: Finding paths between blogs

Monday, June 2, 2003

Lucene note: build your index all at once

Monday, June 2, 2003

Afternoon coffee notes

Tuesday, June 3, 2003

Downhill (and the blogging ecosystem, sorta) has an API

Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Random links

Thursday, June 5, 2003

Getting search to go

Friday, June 6, 2003

TWIKI

Sunday, June 8, 2003

Marketing

Monday, June 9, 2003

Calendars for weblogs

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

xfmllib

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

POST a form without changing the current browser page

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

SourceGear Vault

Thursday, June 12, 2003

Search engine fixed

Thursday, June 12, 2003

Authenticating weblog comments

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

favicons for pycs.net

Wednesday, June 18, 2003

New Py issue coming soon?

Thursday, June 19, 2003

Radio post indices

Thursday, June 19, 2003

ISM band specs (unlicensed radio transmission)

Friday, June 20, 2003

wxWindows has a multi-column tree control

Sunday, June 22, 2003

Delphi question (is there a TTreeView.BeginEdit?)

Monday, June 23, 2003

Replacing RSS?

Thursday, June 26, 2003

Permalinks in RSS: store as 'guid' or 'link'?

Sunday, June 29, 2003

Faces in RSS

Sunday, June 29, 2003

RSS not dead

Monday, June 30, 2003

Funky

Tuesday, July 1, 2003

Invalid XML-RPC from Radio / Frontier

Tuesday, July 1, 2003

Google ads

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Remotely stored subscription list

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Peace in the syndication world

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

FUD

Thursday, July 3, 2003

Subscriptions Harmonization: you choose the server

Thursday, July 3, 2003

Ministry of Benefits to Developers and Users

Friday, July 4, 2003

Coincidence

Saturday, July 5, 2003

JY on XML-RPC

Sunday, July 6, 2003

Single sign-on infrastructure

Monday, July 7, 2003

Investigating the Liberty Alliance

Monday, July 7, 2003

Subs Harmonizers: interop report

Tuesday, July 8, 2003

subsHarmonizer interop update

Friday, July 11, 2003

Interview with a Coffinfish

Saturday, July 12, 2003

FOAF

Monday, July 14, 2003

Do Not Underestimate The Power Of C

Friday, July 18, 2003

RSS 2.0, generated by AOL Journal 1.0

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Miniature Java template compiler

Thursday, July 24, 2003

Stupid question

Friday, July 25, 2003

"despite what 2001 told you"

Monday, July 28, 2003

Happy first birthday to Salon Blogs

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Blogging Ecosystem one year old!

Monday, August 11, 2003

Back home

Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Cold

Tuesday, August 12, 2003

PyCS RSS comment feed help

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Looking for MP3 player recommendations

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Radio TrackBack on Python Community Server

Monday, August 18, 2003

You can now monitor TrackBacks too

Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Boring day

Friday, August 22, 2003

Bureaucracy

Friday, August 22, 2003

GeoBlog after a day or so

Monday, August 25, 2003

GeoBlog after several days

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Cellphones in America

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Flash adventure game -- lost URL

Thursday, August 28, 2003

New Zealand English

Thursday, August 28, 2003

May pre house the seamy side violation!!!

Friday, August 29, 2003

Sound Blaster Live! Value Digital Manual

Friday, August 29, 2003

Weather in Christchurch, New Zealand

Saturday, August 30, 2003

Eigenradio

Monday, September 1, 2003

Upgrading server

Monday, September 1, 2003

Two ways to find things out

Thursday, September 4, 2003

What do you call links into the middle of HTML documents?

Thursday, September 4, 2003

The Topic Exchange does blogrolls and images now

Thursday, September 4, 2003

I can't resist a challenge

Friday, September 5, 2003

Experiment: constructing blogrolls from RSS

Friday, September 5, 2003

Authenticated TrackBack?

Saturday, September 6, 2003

Combined RSS with OPML output

Tuesday, September 9, 2003

ATTENTION: WORLD WIDE CALL OUT!

Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Topic Exchange now compatible with Radio's TrackBack implementation

Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Publisher of Indie Tech Rag Stricken!

Monday, September 15, 2003

Linkdump

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Microcontent

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Linkdump

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Moral dilemma

Thursday, September 18, 2003

parsing html, many2many, ice cream, foaf, fame, elingsh, software, servers, parents

Friday, September 19, 2003

Mikel on aggregators

Monday, September 22, 2003

Planned outage

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Conservation of pain

Sunday, September 28, 2003

Outage over

Sunday, September 28, 2003

Restaurant reviews

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Topic Exchange client development

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

How do you send blog posts with complicated RSS over the metaWeblog API?

Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Topic Exchange mailing list (for users)

Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Watch TCP sessions with this Windows build of tcpconndbg ...

Thursday, October 2, 2003

The tools will save us!

Thursday, October 2, 2003

Topics: flat or hierarchical?

Friday, October 3, 2003

Parsing RSS-Data

Friday, October 3, 2003

Parsing namespaced RSS extensions

Friday, October 3, 2003

Post-parsing thoughts

Friday, October 3, 2003

By the way

Saturday, October 4, 2003

Topic Exchange client: first test release

Monday, October 6, 2003

Repairing MetaKit databases

Monday, October 6, 2003

Invoking qmail-inject from Python on FreeBSD without hanging

Tuesday, October 7, 2003

High performance XML-RPC

Tuesday, October 7, 2003

MetaKit crash

Thursday, October 9, 2003

Linux ext3fs file write performance

Friday, October 10, 2003

Movable Type does invalid XML-RPC?

Sunday, October 12, 2003

pycs.net, still broken

Sunday, October 12, 2003

C++ tip: always use std::list, not std::deque or std::vector, if you like storing pointers or iterators

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

NewsBruiser + Topic Exchange integration, Python bindings

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Python Community Server has a new search engine

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

bzero now talks to the Topic Exchange

Thursday, October 23, 2003

Topic Exchange <--> WebOutliner

Saturday, October 25, 2003

PyCS updates

Monday, October 27, 2003

Longhorn

Monday, November 3, 2003

blo.gs weblogUpdates syndication

Tuesday, November 4, 2003

The things you can spell with domain names ...

Thursday, November 6, 2003

Haven't seen Matrix Revolutions yet

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

bzero 0.18 out; now works with Python 2.3

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Looking for a replacement ABIT KT7A chipset fan

Thursday, November 20, 2003

Introducing Rune Hansen

Thursday, November 20, 2003

Colourful console output from Python on Windows

Thursday, November 20, 2003

Wanted: A serverless group blogging tool

Monday, November 24, 2003

I have Longhorn

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Longhorn up and running

Monday, December 1, 2003

UNIX hackery: passing file descriptors

Tuesday, December 2, 2003

UNIX hackery: Modifying lukemftpd for ftp hosting that doesn't suck

Thursday, December 4, 2003

Radio Comment Monitor improvement

Thursday, December 4, 2003

Bootstrapping a web hosting service

Friday, December 5, 2003

Feed Normalizer

Tuesday, December 9, 2003

myelin.scripting.com

Thursday, December 11, 2003

OK, myelin.scripting.com is here to stay.

Thursday, December 11, 2003

LUFS-Python / pythonfs

Thursday, December 11, 2003

Feedback on SourceGear Vault

Friday, December 12, 2003

PyDS does BlogMarks

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Prototype of a way to make weblog polling way more efficient

Thursday, December 18, 2003

SourceGear responds

Monday, December 22, 2003

All-RSS-within-one-click finder

Thursday, December 25, 2003