Adam Kalsey figured out the Remember Me, Movable Type comments problem sometime this summer, and provides a crystal-clear fix. I haven’t implemented this today (or even checked to see if MT integrated the fix into later releases) but for those of you who have wondered why MT sometimes knows ya and sometimes don’t, you may now sleep even more soundly than when you learned that the G5 to PC thing was a hoax.
G5 to PC mod: hoax
How I PC’d an Apple G5 turns out to be a practical joke spun out of control, says the 1/27/04 update to the original cringe-inducing post.
Rest easy, America. It will be at least a few years before someone does something like this for real.
I still think duct taping a laptop drive to a transistor battery inside a cheese grater with a circuit board and illuminated flashlight bulb would make a swell mod. You could even cut off the bottom of the grater and made a down-market G5 Cube.
Trying to get to Laundry
But distracted by this project.
On my way to scrounge the MT fora, I saw a call for testers on MT3.0 dated January 30. I guess they might be full up, but I imagine I’ll drop a line.
This forum post appears to have detailed instructions on setting up a PDA-friendly submission form.
My socks are calling.
Talk through the Palm
Well, this is being entered offline via AvantGo.
Aggravatingly, the form’s text-entry box is six characters wide by six lines high, rendering it rahtha poor from a usability perspective.
More research needed. But first, a vsnture into the exciting world of laundry.
UPDATE: hmmmm. Posting via that form appears to skip some of the formatting steps that happen when posting via the web-based forms. The original entry appeared sans line breaks. The form also included the extended field and did not offer the ‘preserve lline breaks option’ that I noticed.
More research indeed.
poking around AvantGo blogging
meryl.net articles: PDA Posting to MT (From Feb. 2002)
Once I got AvantGo set up to sync under OS X, the next step was finding the tools to post to the blog from the PDA.
I ended up using MAL Conduit which is both a true Palm conduit and has a decent readme in the distro, so no futzing around to set up the install, thankfully. I’m still poking around with the content settings.
I’m beginning this entry prior to completing the setup of the AvantGo bookmarklet, and I expect I’ll have to tweak things a bit.
The AG sync process takes a reallly long time.
blogmarks
Linkblog?, wonders Eric S. at Wiredfool. He wants a centralized online bookmark storage facility that he administers and hosts so that the data is non-dependent on the vagaries of free web services.
I knew I’d just seen an extensive discussion of varieties of solutions to this problem; naturally I hadn’t linked to it in a way that was accessible to me.
The discussions were on Ask Metafilter, but site-googling was unproductive because the key words – ‘bookmark,’ ‘link,’ etc., – are too meta, even (or perhaps especially) on MeFi, to produce a parsable result set.
To summarize the discussion, there are a variety of open-source tools and projects underway to provide this functionality, using everything from Perl to PHP/MySQL.
Another Eric pointed out that a paid .Mac subscription provides seamless virtual desktop integration, which leads to the same bookmarks appearing in-browser for Safari users when roaming.
Like a puppet on a string
We are only just beginning…: Jason Webley announces new CD with release party, May 11 and April 30, respectively.
Does it have to do with the open-heart surgery?