Archive for May, 2007

Tumblr Gripe

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ryptide
on May 14, 2007
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It’s very annoying that while I can have my tumblelog pick up any rss feed I want, it doesn’t seem to like to pick up the embedded links or image tags within the posts in those feeds. For instance, everything I post here gets picked up, but there’s no way to really see what I’m talking about because the feed is munged. A reader has to click through the “via” link to get to this site, and read it here… Which completely defeats the purpose of an all-in-one “stream of concsiousness” type setup.

Emails to their staff get no response. I really like the concept, but don’t understand this unnecessary weakening of their product. Other feeds (Flickr, etc.,) seem to work… and attribution links can be automatically added to each incoming post… I just don’t understand the disconnect with reading a simple RSS feed.

/gripe.

Update from the fine folks over at Tumblr::

We apologize for the problem. The version of WordPress you’re using is sending two “description” fields in its RSS feed: a plaintext, summarized, tag-less standard version, and a full-HTML version in a custom <content:encoded> tag. Our RSS parser hadn’t yet implemented support for <content:encoded>.

I just added that support, and it will apply to all feed imports from now on.

Now that’s what I call service.

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The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers

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ryptide
on May 14, 2007
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Regina Lynn over at Wired has some thoughts about Geeks + Sex.

The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers

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I’ll be published soon!

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ryptide
on May 14, 2007
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Just got word that the paper I co-authored; “Reaching Maturity Level 2 / Capability Level 3 in 9 Months: Lessons Learned in Using Agile Methods for Process Improvement” has been tentatively selected for CrossTalk’s August 2007 issue.

Awesome!

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wordpress themes

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ryptide
on May 11, 2007
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I can’t find anything I’m absolutely in love with, though a couple are pretty close. I’m probably going to have to wind up developing my own. Good times. After a couple quick changes, I’ve gone back to a modified Hemmed.

Update: I’ve switched to K2, which appears to be quite a bit more flexible in terms of styling things, supports widgets, etc.

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Mike Gravel is really growing on me.

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ryptide
on May 10, 2007
in news, politics and religion
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It’s always refreshing to hear a political candidate come right out and give his honest beliefs on topics. It’s even better when those beliefs are pro-human rights of all people, are non-homophobic and make sense. When people think, everyone wins.

“If a couple of lesbians or gay men want to get married, and they love each other, they should have the right to do that and enjoy all the legalities in our society that go along with that. I have no problem with that at all.”

“I think that people who create these problems of homophobia and the likes of that do us a disservice,” Gravel continues. “We are all human beings and one of the things that should motivate us, most of all, is love.”

He blasts President Bush’s “faith-based leadership,” saying, “You can’t legislate morality.”

That last sentence is something I’ve been saying for a long, long time. You can’t legislate morality any more than you can depend on religion to teach it. I’ve long said that a person knows right from wrong. Sure, the Church can help guide people, and I don’t discount the value of faith-based community service and outreach to those in need, but folks seem to think that without religion, the world would be a mess… Well newsflash folks, the world is a mess, and it has a lot to do with religion. No, religion isn’t the only cause of violence and evil, but I’d probably argue that it is the most persuasive, and most harmful.

Anyway, enough rant for now. Link to video below.

PageOneQ | Mike Gravel, 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, says he has no problem with gay love.

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