January 2004 Ninety-six posts

• 28-Jan-2004
  Nifty UG The South Eastern Michigan PHP Users Group seems particularly active. And no, I’m not going to Michigan. 🙂

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• 28-Jan-2004
  Taxes Hey, I just ordered TurboTax for Mac. With luck I should have my taxes done in a few weeks, though I’m still waiting on my W-2 from one of my employers. The TurboTax (formerly MacinTax) product is really good. Painless, and easy.

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• 28-Jan-2004
  Silly Social Networks Brian Dear sent me this latest silliness of his: Denounce Newswire: Amazon Launches New Social Network Called “Pricekut”: “Customers Can Now See and Comment on the Contents of Other Customers’ Shopping Carts” I guess you have to be pretty geeky to get it though.

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• 28-Jan-2004
  Here’s an outrage… Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: Press Release: “Writing Instructor Loses Job for Discussing Iraq War in Class”

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• 28-Jan-2004
  Shirky on online community and the gap between the enthusiasm and action Check this, on Many-to-Many — Is Social Software Bad for the Dean Campaign? A quote: The Dean campaign has brilliantly conveyed a message to its supporters, particularly its young ones, that their energy and enthusiasm can change the world. Some of this was by design, but much of it was a function of people looking...

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• 27-Jan-2004
  Duh, the URL for my Atom Feed… …is https://artlung.com/blog/atom/

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• 27-Jan-2004
  Okay, Atom is ON Blogger added support for Atom feeds — read more at AtomEnabled.org — it’s not got the same content as the RSS feed, but hey, it’s simple enough. I’m using PHP code to add Etag and Last-Modified code: header(“Last-Modified: $myDate”); header(“Etag: “$myDate””); header(“Content-Type: text/xml”); I also added this code in the html of my page: <link...

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• 27-Jan-2004
  Atom Testing of publishing of an Atom Feed. You won’t see anything yet. Sorry.

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• 27-Jan-2004
  Aiiiiiigh! Sander pointed out to me that the index page of websandiego.org was showing a directory listing. It has now been fixed. The title of this post is the only proper response to the fact that the front of websandiego.org was a directory listing for about 20 hours. Thanks for the QA, Sander!

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• 27-Jan-2004
  New Business Cards Tease, tease, tease. I just ordered some new business cards from iPrint and they should arrive soon. I’m excited about my new venture. I’m thinking about doing a press release and everything. Something I can send to the likes of freshnews and the t sector — or would that be worthwhile? I’m still formulating my...

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