Proposed schedule for this year’s NakedJen Film Festival in SF.
8:30AM — Breakfast at Mel’s Drive-In restaurant, 801 Mission Street (415) 227-4477.
10AM — Sherlock Holmes at Century San Francisco Centre, 835 Market Street (2hr 14 min).
12:30 — 1:30 — Lunch nearby, Apple store visit, get some air.
1:45PM — Precious at Century San Francisco Centre (1 hr, [...]
Archive for December, 2009
23 Dec
NJFF — San Francisco — 2009
22 Dec
Podcasting and WordPress
Imho there should be a field in the post editor where I enter the URL of the item enclosure.
If there’s nothing there, no enclosure.
Scraping the HTML gives unpredictable results.
Apparently it misses the MP3 sometimes, as in this post:
http://rebootnews.com/2009/12/17/rebooting-the-news-37/
A Google search shows the problem has been reported.
http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+podcast+enclosure
18 Dec
Quick review of Avatar
For the first hour and a half I was riveted.
Watching every nuance, carefully listening to every line of dialog. Delighting in all the delightful visuals.
Then the movie turned into Star Wars. A great movie in 1977. And since then there have been two types of scifi movies — originals like The Matrix — which [...]
12 Dec
WordPress.com implements the Twitter API
I just got an email from Matt Mullenweg over at Automattic saying they’ve implemented the Twitter API on wordpress.com. This means you can use any configurable Twitter client to post to and read from wordpress.com blogs.
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/twitter-api/
I haven’t tried it out yet, but I plan to.
It’s a beautiful move. As I said to Matt in [...]
7 Dec
EZTV’s RSS gets guid, comments and category elements
A bit of progress to report.
NovaKing reports in a comment on Unberkeley that they have added support for guids and links to comments to their feeds.
An example:
http://ezrss.it/feed/
They also have a category element for each item, which for them of course is always TV Show. Perhaps you guys could come up with a [...]
6 Dec
Cross-platform issue in Frontier kernel
Just spent about an hour chasing down a bug that was caused by a cross-platform difference in how the kernel converts dates to strings on Mac and Windows.
On Mac if you convert a date to a string, the year is expressed in two characters, on Windows in four characters.
For example, on Windows:
string (clock.now ()) == [...]
3 Dec
Ideas for a BitTorrent namespace
Background: On Friday, I started reviewing the RSS produced by some of the BitTorrent sites. What I found was pretty great. There were some problems, but nothing that can’t be easily sorted out. What was really exciting was that through Twitter, some of the developers of the feeds and apps that use them, got in [...]
2 Dec
Do you use Hotwire for NY travel?
Hotwire has been hassling me. Somehow they figured out that I’m planning a trip to NY (I guess some of the sites I’ve been using share data with them) and they keep sending me offers that get better and better.
However, I once had very bad experience with Hotwire that resulted in me not even [...]
1 Dec
Teen tweeter cashes-in on SUL placement
BBC: “A Twitter feed set up by a Dutch teenager as a hobby has been taken over by Microsoft news channel MSNBC.com.”
The report emphasizes the rate that the feed is growing, by 3000 to 4000 followers per day. What it doesn’t say is that the feed is on Twitter’s Suggested Users List, and that growth [...]
1 Dec
Testing some new lifeliner features
It should now automatically turn a side-smiley into an image:
