I’ve been pretty behind on my photolog, but I’ve updated it now with pictures from my last trip in December and a couple of days from this trip. More photos to come! The pictures from Blarney Castle this time should be an interesting contrast, as in December the sky and weather was pretty chilly but yesterday we had beautiful and sunny weather.
Gallery: 5-8-2006
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Gallery: 5-7-2006
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Gallery: 5-6-2006
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Harvard Blogs WordPress
The Harvard Berkman Center blog server has been switched to WordPress. This means anyone with a .havard.edu email address can get a WordPress blog on theri domain in seconds. They’re using MU.
Gallery: 5-5-2006
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Driving on the Left
We’ve been driving all around the Dublin area, through Slane, Dunleek, Dowth, New Grange, and finally Drogheda and becoming accustomed to driving on the left has been an interesting experience. First in the rental car there are no fewer than 4 stickers throughout the driver area reminding you to be on the left, and there also seem to be signs to remind you about it around all the tourist areas. What I found difficult wasn’t driving on the left side, which was fairly easy to remember, but rather I found myself aligning myself as the driver with the part of the lane I would be in if I was driving on the right side. Needless to say, this can put you dangerously close to anything to the left of you. So my new mantra (oft-repeated by my sister) has become “Guide to the left.” Thank goodness for collapsible mirrors. On the bright side, left turns are easy.
Gallery: 5-4-2006
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To Ireland
I’m on my way back to Cork, Ireland once again to join the inimitable Donncha for his wedding. Posting may be light for a few days, or it may get heavier. One never knows.
Last Meals
Dead Man Eating is a weblog dedicated to documenting the last meals of death row inmates. Morbidly fascinating. There seems to be a lot of fried chicken. The weblog also includes things people have sent in as what they would have as their last meal, which generally seems to be enough food to feed a small village.
Conventional RSS
Alex from Textpattern has started putting thoughts down on what we’re calling “conventional RSS.” It’s not a spec, profile, or anything like that. It’s just a documentation of the things we do in our RSS 2.0 feeds. There are some minor differences with what WP currently does, but at least in the beginning WordPress and Textpattern will have a shared set of conventions and assumptions.
Thomas Dolby, Hot Air, and Southwest
Tons of people have been writing in about some new WordPress blogs, so to roll them into one post: Thomas Dolby the noted musician has a new WP blog, a new conservative video blog from Michelle Malkin called Hot Air, and finally closest to my heart is Southwest Airlines new one.
CNET Buzz Out Loud
Thanks to Michael Pate and Josh Jarmin who wrote in about Akismet and WordPress being mentioned on CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast on 4/26, I got in contact with the Buzz folks and they invited me in to the studio today for a brief chat. (I still live a block away from CNET.) Molly Wood and Veronica Belmont were fantastic hosts and hopefully Molly can get her firewall sorted out. It should be up on their site later today. Update: I snapped two photos to Flickr during the podcast.
Cross-Datacenter File Replication
Anyone have any favorite tricks for geographically diverse real-time file replication on Linux? It seems like most information is pretty dispersed, and suggestions range from every-30-seconds rsync to putting all files as BLOBs in MySQL and replicating that. There has to be a better way. (The scariest part is Microsoft seems to show up first for most Googles I can think of, but Windows is not an option.)
ComicPress
ComicPress is a theme for publishing web-comics with WordPress.
Staff Must Wash Hands
Staff Must Wash Hands and a story of propietary soap.
Weblog to CMS
O’Reilly: From Weblog to CMS with WordPress.
Daring Jump
Mr Gruber has left Joyent to focus on Daring Fireball full-time, and for all the right reasons. I finally got to meet him a few times this year, and I have every confidence he will be very successful in this endeavor.
One-Way LinkedIn
As much as I dig it seems on LinkedIn you can add connections with amazing ease, but I have not been able to find any place in the interface to remove a connection.