Uncooked

Site changeover

Ok, I'm going to have a go at serving from the new host - redirecting everything from dannyayers.com to start, see how that goes. Apologies if it's broken. It might be slow, it seems slow to me but I'm no sure yet whether that's just my line or the limited memory on the virtual host.
Ok, this post is going *only* on the TypePad version, so should disappear very soon.

Libby Joins @semantics

Libby Miller Joins @semantics - congrats Libby! Congrats @semantics!!

But, no photo..?

Yahoo found an interesting assortment of pics I guess the 'A.' stands for 'airborne'...

Freedom (unless you're Iranian)

It seems US companies have started shutting Iranian Internet accounts at short notice. Following his stirring "freedom speech" I do hope President Bush will personally intervene and stop these attacks on liberty.
Hoder : US bans Internet for Iranians, almost

Link Condom

This is agonizing:

Stop the spread of Viral Link Skank today.

THE SOLUTION......wait for it.....

rel="nofollow"

(spotter: Jeremy)

Muddy logic

Journalists have a tiny vocabulary for expressing incredulity: "alleged," "reportedly," "claimed," "suspected." The rest of us have a rich rhetoric of semi-belief, starting with a simple "I think that..." and going all the way to "I find it really hard to believe anything that lying fathead says, but..."

Joho the Blog: Degrees of belief.

Another Book Milestone

Tonight I sent in the last chapter revision for Beginning RSS and Atom Programming. I now need to package up the code, then I'll need to do a final post-proof read-through check. But effectively the writing's done -

Woo-hoo!

If and when I get a bit of energy back I'll post on lessons learned, but overall I'm pretty happy. This last submission was slightly uncomfortable, the last opportunity to add material and there was still a lot more fringe stuff I would have liked to have got in. Part of the problem with writing about something so wide, deep and dynamic. But I still reckon I got in all the must-have and a lot of the nice-to-have. Anything else, well, what are blogs for after all...

Speaking of which, I've got this one to fix.

Temporary Uncoolness

I've now got the virtual host onto which I'm going to move this blog, but the most recent WordPress database dump I can find is a month or so old (I'm sure I've taken one much more recently, but can't find it). So I'm going to wipe a load of stuff off the old site in the hope that that'll allow me to get back into MySQL again there and get the latest data. I'll continue using TypePad until everything's ready on the new server, and I'll try and redirect as much as possible, but links to some of the static stuff on dannyayers.com may 404 in the interim.

The gentle path to feed subscription

I hope it's been clear from what I've posted recently that I consider the icon/browser based approach no more than a fallback from autodiscovery (using the HTML <link> element - not only for RSS autodiscovery, it can also be for FOAF autodiscovery etc).

But anyhow Ken MacLeod wraps it up neatly, getting rid of the link to machine-readable data but adding:

...have Bryan Bell design a graphic that conveys, "this page can be subscribed-to". This is a visual clue to those who are familiar with aggregation but, more importantly, it's a link to page on how to become familiar with aggregation.

What've you done now, Gmail?

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

someone@somewhere

Technical details of failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 10): 554 The IP Address of the sender (64.233.170.200) was found in a DNS blacklist database and was therefore refused.

[Brian S. - I was trying to mail you, nothing important]

Coincidentally yesterday I realised I hadn't heard back from someone I'd mailed a week ago, the original mail having been bounced a bit first through one of his colleagues. I went back to check and found it had gone out with the subject line "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)".

Searchlet

From Technorati, spotted over at Tantek's, here so I remember to plug it in when I get around to rebuilding this blog.

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