Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.

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• http://wordpress.org/download/

install it.. it’s easy. if you need help, go to: http://www.wordpress.org/support/

go download these, mandatory… I mean, unless you like wasting time deleting spam from your comments. *I* don’t, so I use these:

• http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
• http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/

follow the installation instructions, but, typically, it’ll be “put these files in the /yourblog/wp-content/plugins folder, login to the admin area, and activate the plugins.”

you might want to download these:

• tiger-style administration panel
• Stickies makes posts sticky at the top of your blog.. handy for announcements
• Bsuite- stats tracking.. who’s visiting what page..
• a database backup for your blog
• add a search bar to the wordpress codex inside of your admin area that returns the results in an ajax window.. if you have questions about themes, this could be handy.. alternatively, you’re going to want to get to know http://codex.wordpress.org
• Add a poll to your blog.
• del.icio.us bookmarks
• audio scrobbler recently played listing
• postie is a really kick ass blog-by-email plugin, including sending photos and videos from your phone… capiche??
• there’s a headline-to-images plugin out there, too.. the developer’s ISP has cut him off for some reason. This definitely helps a site look cooler, imho.

ok, that’s it. You’ll find stuff you like. These are the ones I like.

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Anyway, this is my 1000th post. I started noticing the counter getting into this range for the past month or so, and it kind of freaked me out a bit.

“The 1000th post should be something witty. Something important. Something profound.”

But as I crept up on it, I got more and more wrapped up in the idea of the 1000th post.

“The 1000th post MUST be funny, important AND profound.”

So, in order to take my mind off this, I started up a music blog and I made a more serious effort to do something with my fine art blog… I figured, hey, I’ve had some guest bloggers here, but my guest bloggers don’t really post too much, so what I’ve posted on my other blogs probably makes up for the number of guests posts on my main blog. It’s not so much important that I have precisely 1000 posts (although the counter says so) so much as it is a “neighborhood milestone” . Now it’s more like this:

“Wow, I’m in the neighborhood of 1000 posts on my blog!! What a milestone, sort of!”

So, Maybe not the most witty, important, and profound thing I’ve ever posted, but thanks for visiting, read on.

I’ve figured out and turned on mod_rewrite and permalinks, so it will be interesting to see what happens to traffic post-google-dance… probably nothing spectacular, but, it’s always nice to be as searchable as possible.

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Thanks to the head geek over at economysizegeek.com, I can now post photos straight from my phone to my blogs using a plugin called “postie”. Thanks dude!

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Quality of blog entry coding?:



uh.. not really important to me, if it’s clear who’s speaking, and who’s being quoted. I think 2-deep blockquotes is one too many. There’s just got to be a better way to do threaded conversations on blogs. if you could register a conversation origination point, then have a system to distinguish comment points based on blockquote tags, and branch off from there visually, you could draw a pretty good tree diagram of the topic tangents.

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ok, now keep in mind, this traffic for the whole month, and I posted those articles at the end of the third week. This is what A-list mentions do: deliver a lot of traffic to you. If you’re new to my feed, welcome, I hope you continue to find something interesting occasionally.

Update : Somehow my links got posted around, apparently? Here’s the hit counter from the dotmac account:

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Sup Doodes,

Saw this pop up today, pretty cool:

http://mmanuel.typepad.com/media_guerrilla/2005/06/

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Cool. I wonder if we’ll see something similar… anytime… ever.

btw: jeez, it’s tough to attribute properly… time consuming.

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Premiere Podcast Party
What is podcasting and why should you care? Stick around for Apple’s Premiere Podcast Party, showcasing the emerging trend of podcasting and its impact on education. Outstanding examples of educational podcasts along with classroom integration strategies will be showcased. Come see for yourself how easy it is to use podcasting to impact learning! Since the event is late, food and drinks will be provided … bring your own iPod to throw into the party mix after the session.

Woot! I’ll be there!

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Grab whatever image you want to use for your favicon.ico file, open it in photoshop, the gimp, or whatever you have (uh… iphoto may work too?).

Reduce the imagesize to 16 pixels by 16 pixels and Save a copy.

(optional: Undo the downsizing, and re-resize the image down to 32 x 32 pixels, and save another copy. Undo the resizing again and re-re-resize the image down to 48×48, and save a third copy)

Open up Takeshi’s excellent program and select “File -> new document”. A small multi-paned window will appear with six small windows.

select “File -> Include Image…” and navigate to where your copy (or copies) are. Choose the 16 x 16 pixel copy. A dialog box will appear giving you the option to reduce the colors down to 16 colors (or just hit “ok” to leave it in as many colors as your image was in, up to 256). Depending on what you chose to do, one of the six small windows will now be populated with your image.

repeat as necessary for the other open slots, depending on how thorough you want your favicon file to be. (I just did the 16×16 @ 16 colors window, and the 32×32 @ 256 colors window.. should be good enough, I figure)

Save the file as “favicon.ico” and drop it in an accessible place for your webserver, most probably at the root level of your webserver’s documents directory. (on the Mac OS X and OS X Server, using stock Apache 1.3, it will be: /Library/Webserver/Documents/ … on apache 2.x, I believe it would be /Library/apache2/htdocs/ … If you’ve come this far, it’s probably time for you to learn where the root documents directory is on your webserver.

the last step is to put the following code in your <head> tag of your web page:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
that’s it, folks!

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http://accessexcellence.blogspot.com/2005/05/bloggers-corner-deeje-cooley-and-steve.html

nice!

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* Roll in the Multi-blog code. I know I’ve just turned your attention off.

* Take a cue from MySQL and dual-license wordpress. Commercial / non-commercial. I don’t know what the difference would be other than a karmic one. I regularly register and pay for shareware. I’m not alone in the world. People will register.

* Take a cue from Apple’s server software pricing and have two tiers of commercial license: 1-10 for cheap, 11-unlimited for (cheap * 2). If the MU code were rolled in, we’d probably pop for a $500 unlimited license at work… probably.

Right now I have half a dozen people starting blogs at work. There’s another half a dozen that are starting up that I’m not even responsible for. That’s 12 installs, 12 databases, 12 headaches when anything changes. We’d pay for that manageability of a unified code base. The problem here is that blogs are turning into the new email list, only tons better. We can talk to our customers better and we can communicate internally better with blogs than we can with email lists. Blogs are increasingly like the fax, cell phone, and computer… essential business tools. Your solution would be the end-all solution with multi-blog support at the main development level. Donncha has carried the ball a long way, so I understand the complexities of charging for service on projects that were previously free… everyone wants to get a piece of the pie, I’m sure… rightly so in some cases.

The differentiation that wordpress has over the other major players are:
* written in PHP (versus java, perl, web objects) so the syntax is reasonable enough to modify without too much hassle.
* server on your own server (versus blogger, et al)
* smart extensible structure. Just look at the number of plugins to validate that.
* easy install. REALLY easy.
* flexible content display architecture, just look at the number of themes to validate that.
* easy to use
* easy to maintain (a reasonable number of installs, anyway)
* xmlrpc in and out without too many problems
* blog by mail (with photo support with a drop-in code replacement)
* satisfying DIY feelings abounding everywhere. DIY is the new black.


I just wish MU support were there in the famous 2 minute install. We’d probably be willing to pay for it. With a dual license structure, single users still get it for free, and you get what you deserve from your corporate users and service providers. Price it reasonably, and you’d be able to do business with small teams like mine, and larger companies like mine if/when they adopted a pro-blogging policy.

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Comic Life, make your own comics: “Comic Life from Plasq might just be the coolest Mac applications that made me go ‘no way!’ since Delicious Library. In MAKE we feature comics from Howtoons.org and I love the idea of using an photos I have around here to my own comics. Here’s the first one I made called ‘IT CAME FROM MAKE’ (click here to view). It’s a one page comic with stuff I posted to my photo site. Speaking of– on a MAKE-mash up note, wouldn’t it be cool if this app ‘slurped’ in your Flickr photos so you could make (and share) comics from all your Flickr photos? Might make a cool web app.”

(Via MAKE: Blog.)

These are the Musolomo guys! This app is insane! With a 30 day trial!

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