Thursday April 17, 2003
Thursday April 17, 2003
Re: New Roller Themes Redux
This has been a thorn in my side for some time, I'd really like to get some new Roller themes. Several people on FreeRoller have created some nice looking blogs. I'm going to name names, and hope they voluntarily submit their designs for the benefit of all Roller users.
- atog News: atog's template is now in cvs as "clean".
- and so it begins...
- Jeff Duska's old blog
- Absurdities and nonsenses
- grubbel
Would the owners of these fine blogs please submit their Weblog pages and any supporting material to their nearest Roller developer? Thank you. If you'd like to suggest a name for the Theme, and include attribution somewhere in the page, please do so.
Update: Werner Ramaeker has agreed to donate his theme.
Even Later: I've heard from atog & Jeff, both agreed to submit their designs. Thanks guys!
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Apr 17 2003, 03:23:36 PM
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Re: Whoopee!
My congratulations to Rickard, may the two of you have a long and happy life.
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Apr 17 2003, 01:28:46 PM
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The value of an RSS aggregator
I resisted the trend towards RSS aggregators for a long time, but finally setup nntp//rss last week. It did reduce the amount of time I spent reading blogs: I didn't have to click through to every site to see if something changed and I didn't have to wait for the whole graphical-interface to load. But recently I found another use, one that had become vital enough that I was peeved when nntp//rss decided to stop polling my subscriptions for some reason: printing.
You see, I like reading Ted Neward's blog, he provides a great deal of useful information. But some of his longer posts are trying, that is, I have difficulting focussing on the monitor while reading, and scrolling makes it all that more difficult. So I started printing them (ah, paper). But I got all those graphics and links and other posts and whatnot associated with the weblog presentation. Enter nntp//rss: since each post is presented to me as a discreet item, without all the decorations. This makes it much cleaner to read on the monitor, but also makes for a much less encumbered printout. The only downfall is that blog posts with graphics usually don't display (the infamous "relative url" problem?) - but since Ted hasn't made (much?) use of graphics I haven't noticed the loss.
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Apr 17 2003, 10:56:22 AM
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Wednesday April 16, 2003
Compress your data
Bill Kearney wants us to Use compression on your web server. I couldn't agree more, and posted a comment:
It's about time someone stood up and said this. As one of the committers on Roller (http://www.rollerweblogger.com) I've added gzip compression for both the web pages and the RSS feed - it'll be coming in version 0.9.7.
I don't think Dave has this in the README for the next release, guess that means I should put it in there ;-)
Later: there was some bugs with the implementation I *cough* borrowed *cough* from Marty Hall © 2002 Marty Hall; may be freely used or adapted, but I fixed them.
More to the point, my test page went from 34028 bytes to 7939: 23.33% of the original size!
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Apr 16 2003, 03:33:44 PM
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Re: But what do you mean? Or "Re: I am sorry"
I honestly believe you; that you weren't *trying* to be patronizing, Chiara. I think perhaps blogs are too much like email or IM, where it is difficult to express emotions clearly. I read too much into the phrases "You are so adorable but utterly helpless" and "How should i write dearest Lance?". I've seen you use "dearest" before, so I shouldn't have taken it personally.
Perhaps it was calling me a "typical male geek" that set me off. I hate to think of myself as typical in any way, whether I am or not.
I likewise appreciate that you've been reading my blog, though I must confess that I suspect my content to be less compelling than your own ;-)
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Apr 16 2003, 03:04:12 PM
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Re: But what do you mean?
Chiara responded to my non-understanding. Now that she has stated clearly what she was saying, I still don't see it in the previous ramble. Chiara states that she wants to be understood, and the only advice I can give is: get those run-on sentences under control.
Oh, and "dearest" Chiara, please don't patronize me.
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Apr 16 2003, 08:21:53 AM
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Tuesday April 15, 2003
I need a Fix
Erik's site has been down for more than a day now, and I think I'm going through withdrawal! Where else will I turn for linking goodness? Erik is the best aggregator I've found yet!
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Apr 15 2003, 08:38:24 AM
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Monday April 14, 2003
But what do you mean?
I enjoy reading Chiara as much as the next guy (okay, maybe not), but as often as not I'm not sure what she is saying. Today's response to Matt's obsession with productivity is one such example: I read the whole thing, and I don't know what she is saying.
Is Chiara saying Matt's whole attitude is wrong? That he is wrong to blame his obsession on the "American work ethic"? Or is she agreeing with him? That she feels the same thing but doesn't let it paralyze her? Or that it does? I cannot tell.
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Apr 14 2003, 04:04:41 PM
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