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Re: Google Personalized Results – Ego Search Conundrum

Andy Skelton — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:51:17 -0000

Wow, I didn't know my blogs were noindex until your post showed up in my own "ego Google Blogsearch feed". Thanks!!

Re: Google Personalized Results – Ego Search Conundrum

Andy Skelton — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:51:17 -0000

Wow, I didn't know my blogs were noindex until your post showed up in my own "ego Google Blogsearch feed". Thanks!!

Re: Short URLs Equals Expanded Browsers?

Andy Skelton — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:46:53 -0000

I devoted half of my last tweet to a URL. If 140 characters is a good limit, 70 can be better.

Re: New Microsoft Ad: Macs are “so sexy” but…

Andy Skelton — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:17:19 -0000

Silverlight plugin required to watch video? No thanks.

Re: WPW - Linkslist

Andy Skelton — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:32:55 -0000

Hey there! Nice work on this plugin/widget code. However, it won't work on future versions of WordPress because you've queried a table that will no longer be available. Links are tricky business these days... :-)

Re: WPW - Linkslist

Andy Skelton — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:43:14 -0000

You can use common API (it exists) or check for newer API functions and fork your code accordingly. That's really all I can offer for help. It's not all for naught to write a link-related plugin. It's just a good idea to keep up with core development.

Re: Art or Design?

Andy Skelton — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:23:30 -0000

Tricky set, Adam. Thank you for the opportunity to display my ignorance. I see Ugly Art, Beautiful Design, Art About Design, Design, Design.

I think the trick in your question is that there is a distinction between Art and Design but when an item bears qualities of both categories, the subjective is called upon in order to call the A-B blend A or B.

This is coming from someone whose last attempt at art was to tear up an O'Keefe print to make a portrait of a friend who hates O'Keefe.

I used the term CSS Artists for several reasons. Not all of them bear discussion but I think you could have guessed that exaggeration was intended.

Still, just as Joshua Davis can use elements of a design to create artistic expressions and Frank Ghery can integrate art into his design, a WordPress theme can be artistic. By providing the markup pattern as a sort of canvas, I hope a 'designer' will create an artistic canvas for the words of a blog.

Re: Art or Design?

Andy Skelton — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:41:31 -0000

The meaning of CSS Artist is lost on you as long as you insist on fitting it within the academic strictures of Fine Art and Design that you have learned so well. Academia has no place meddling in what is essentially promotional copy.

Re: Art or Design?

Andy Skelton — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:57:40 -0000

Adam, perhaps it is better to say CSS Designers for all of the reasonable reasons that you give. If it pains you every time I write "CSS Artist" then consider this discussion my apology for offending your sensibilities.

I also thank you for bringing fine examples to light so that we can learn by exploring. That was a good exercise.

What remains is that I will continue to regard some designers as artists in much the same way that I regard some coders as poets. Perhaps you will learn to see the human expression, however square, that qualifies these things as art in my mind. Cheers, mate.

Re: from self conscious to self devouring

Andy Skelton — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:09:45 -0000

I don't think the Stats plugin has anything to do with that sidebar link. Are you running WP from svn?

Re: This is the last time, I swear

Andy Skelton — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:41:56 -0000

Over the top, yes, you are. There is nothing logical about your extremes. You went right off into terra incognita. Please come back to reality.

You totally missed the word "gratuitous" which means "not called for by the circumstances" and implies that reasonable amounts of nudity and profanity are acceptable. Please use a dictionary.

To say that we designed the departments for increased ad revenue is way off the mark and totally irresponsible. We don't even put ads on pages reached via the front page. Please do your research.

One category per post? Pure hyperbole. I never said anything of the sort. Please stop reporting lies.

And the "censorship" tag? You have no idea what censorship is. Again, use a dictionary. Those guidelines are not preventing anybody from publishing. You aren't required to publish unwelcome links or commentary on your blog. If I publish a "Featured Blogs" list, don't expect me to publish what I consider unwelcome. Please curb your overgrown sense of entitlement.

The hot sex you had last night has no place being featured in any list I publish. Please stop acting so dignified.

When it comes down to cases, the News Departments are causing more and smaller blogs to get featured, not some conspiratorial A-list. Please quit provoking hostility.

I've seen you ride the soapbox before but this is just too much. Please make good on the oath in this post's title.

And FFS, chill out! :mrgreen:

"And this isn't my nose. It's a false one."---Witch

Re: Brevity And Programming Languages

Andy Skelton — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:57:01 -0000

In Erlang you can import modules to save typing them every time. However it's pretty common to see functions with the same name in different modules (especially in ejabberd) so I've never found it useful.

Re: Getting Attached To Strophe

Andy Skelton — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:40:12 -0000

The attach method is very easy to use! What troubled me was starting the session from the web server (PHP).

We only store hashed passwords, so I have to authenticate without knowing the user's password. It helps that I am using a custom extauth module. For speed and simplicity, I wanted to create the session in a single HTTP GET from the web server, authenticating as a system user. A bespoke ejabberd module I'm calling http_prebind provides this by internally calling ejabberd_http_bind:process_request() a bunch of times and returning the JID, SID, and RID in the response body.

Now I have to figure out a good way to pass the session to the next page whenever the user navigates away. Domain cookies seem like a convenient way to go.

Re: The Blogging Enterprise - Continuing the Conversation

Andy Skelton — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:20:07 -0000

Hi Scott, I was pleased to get to know you at and around the conference. I live right around the corner or Gracy Farms, so drop me a line if you want to have lunch sometime. Cheers!

Re: The Blogging Enterprise - Continuing the Conversation

Andy Skelton — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:21:12 -0000

p.s. Your spam plugins are throwing warnings all over the place. Check it out ;-)

Re: #44: My business card starts conversations

Andy Skelton — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:57:01 -0000

Robert, I like that black, rubbery card you gave me at the Seattle WP meetup. Very cool card!

Re: New blogs, best man, and Xbox 360s

Andy Skelton — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:32:45 -0000

Oblivion is high voltage. Once you get your hands on it, you can't let go until somebody hits you very hard with a heavy piece of wood.

If you value your other commitments, have your wife or son standing by with a 2x4 while you play.

Re: Linux’ achilles heel: fonts

Andy Skelton — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:47:40 -0000

Fonts are exactly the weakness that forced me to make Windows my default boot OS in grub.

Re: First girlfriend finds me through Google

Andy Skelton — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:45:49 -0000

One high school friend googled me and made contact last year. I'm surprised more old friends haven't found me via Google. Earlier this year my sister told me I had to get a MySpace account because old friends were sending her messages to ask about me. They couldn't find me, though I'm the top several results for my name in Google. I guess people don't know about the power that waits at their fingertips.

Re: Bloglines sucks

Andy Skelton — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:48:05 -0000

Sorry everyone, we were working on some new stats features and the Bloglines effect was unforseen. We just fixed it by removing the element that caused Bloglines subscribers to see unchanged posts appear as updated items.