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It has come to my attention
A friend pointed out to me that a link was dead in one of my posts. Turns out, it's a whole lot more than one of them and comments and pings got turned off for some of the resent posts too. In any case, I'm going back through them and at this point I can, for the most part, blame the current version of WordPress for the issue. It appears that it is adding extra \ characters to all occurances of " and ' characters, which when combined with hyperlinks makes for all sorts of broken crap.
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Share and share alike
I ran across a reference to [Share Your OPML](http://share.opml.org/) yesterday, and thought I would link to it since I think it's an interesting site. I found quite a few new blogs to read as a result.
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Little changes
WordPress 2.0.3 has some kind of wacky issues, so I'm giving the [WordPress 2.0.3 Tuneup plugin](http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/wordpress-203-tuneup/) a try. Hopefully it will fix a couple of those weird issues.
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A primer for the rest of us
Lor Sj�berg gives some great advice for LiveJournal users, and really for all of us with personal blogs.
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No more old and moldy?
Gizmodo has a neat entry about “smart labels” that allow simple dating of items in the fridge. Cool idea, though I have suspicions about how well it will be picked up.
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Of stadiums and suckers…
I saw a lovely item in the Star Tribune this morning: Minneapolis to cover Target Center losses What makes this headline so particularly ironic is that not even a month ago the local Major League Baseball team successfully lobbied the state legislature to build them a new stadium. How is it that in the clamor to give some millionaires a new toy things like the status of the old toys somehow gets shuffled under the rug?
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No matter how much you AIM…
I have a great idea! Let’s take a hugely popular service on the net, produce an SDK for it that finally lets external developers do things they have had to hack together for years, and then put restrictions in place that entirely cancel the most useful purpose for creating an “open” service in the first place! Great job AOL! You’ve successfully proved, once again, that you still just don’t get the net.
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Over the desert and through the hills…
I saw Pixar’s new movie, Cars last night. Short version: Amazingly beautiful and hilariously funny, but more shallow and less original than I normally expect from this source. Every time that Pixar puts out a new movie, it is more beautiful than the one that ran before it. Comparing Toy Story to Toy Story 2 is an education in itself in the way that computer animation has grown by leaps and bounds in the few years between those productions.
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Whittling away to nothing
I took some time at work today to give a pretty thorough run through to InstallShield 12 Professional. I have to say: I’m pretty annoyed. The last couple of releases under the new Macrovision brand have really been fairly telling about the focus of the parent company. In particular with InstallShield 12 is the removal of the stand alone build engine from the Professional edition. Now it’s only available if I spend another $1199.
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I feel like dancing!
Pharyngula: ["Actually, I use the Nernst equation to justify my immoral behavior. I reserve Darwinism for those nights I need an excuse to go dancing."](http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/06/ann_coulter_fills_me_with_anti.php)