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Okay, let's see if we can't get this thing going: a DropCash campaign for a polling plugin for MovableType. Here are the specifics as discussed here. The polling plugin for MovableType should: integrate with the blog as a standard MovableType entry, allowing for comments and TrackBacks as normal. assume that MySQL and PHP are available […]

Six Apart has heard my request for MT-compatible polling and come up with a possible solution: setting up a DropCash campaign to raise money for polling. I'd like to do so, but first of course we'd need to agree on specifications. My list, off the top of my head, is as follows. The polling plugin […]

Does anyone know of any decent polling software for MovableType? One that can keep track of results (i.e. 43% say this, 35% say this, and 22% say this) and then allow for normal commenting through standard MovableType means? I'd like to get surveys going on that golf blog I'm working on - a weekly survey […]

Today I had a cheese sandwich for lunch. It was really good. Do you like cheese? 0 Comments

Is it possible? The only options I see are "Publish" and "Draft." Where's "Future?" Hrm…

Currently, the individual pages on this blog do not validate. I blame MovableType for a lot of it. I'm trying to use XHTML 1.1 (and the MathML specs because MT insists on using "target="). I'm sure I could fix a few things here and there, but I'll never get rid of, say, the "valign" crap. […]

The chevrons (») seen in the titles on the main and individual pages here now function as "email a friend this article" links. Click them and you'll see what I mean. Here's the very simple code. The trickiest part was the "%0D" for carriage returns. <a href="mailto:?subject=<?=str_replace(" ", "%20", "<MTEntryTitle>");?> &amp;body=Hi,%0D%0DI%20thought%20you%20might%20find%20this%20interesting!%0D%0D &lt;<MTEntryPermalink>&gt;%0D%0D" title="Email <MTEntryTitle> to […]

Steve Rubel wonders why there aren't more Apple bloggers. It's a fairly deep question, and one with which I am uniquely familiar having been almost fired for penning this post at 8:04am when the official announcement didn't come until 11am or so. Never mind that the store had been announced in Billboard, the LA Times, […]

Josh says that my TrackBacks aren't working. I recently updated the blog to MT 3.0.1D, and if TrackBacks aren't working, well that's just disappointing. I'm also using MT-Blacklist, so, perhaps the issue is a compounding one. Please attempt to TrackBack this article (feel free to TrackBack asking or ruminating about MT-Blacklist if you'd like) so […]

Chris' entry at decaffeinated.org led me to create this, my own blogging output infographic: Can you guess which entry accounted for that large spike in early June, 2004? 😛 I've got 1895 entries totalling 345,307 words so far. The template used to generate this for importing into Excel is quite simple: <pre><MTEntries lastn="10000"> <MTEntryDate format="%Y-%m-%d"> […]

John is doing something daring indeed with Daring Fireball: asking for you to support his efforts. Even though I was given a key awhile ago (I purposely changed some details and flipped them around so as not to give any hints away), today I bought the t-shirt. The color grey, it's just so hot! 🙂 […]

My blog is a bit less colorful today. I felt like a change. That is all. 🙂

Jon Rentzsch writes about the signal to noise ratio found on blogs. He links to one of my older OneWord entries, in fact, which starts out using the one word "specific" in the sentence "I have nothing specific to say." This he considers noise. So did I, which is why I later stopped doing the […]

What do you see when you visit http://nslog.com/index.rdf? A week or so ago I moved solely to index.rss and comment.rss feeds. My 404 page triggers a search, and my MovableType activity log has, since I replaced index.rdf with a very generic "Please use a different feed" stub you should see when you visit index.rdf, "index.rdf" […]

I bought MovableType today. I wasn't going to - not until 3.0 (minus the "D") at the very least - because the only blog I run is this one. One author, one blog, non-commercial. I purchased the software because, in the end, it cost me $12.48. I'd previously contributed $50, which got me two "recently […]