For anyone and everyone who was interested in the , there's a WYSIWYG HTML widget called Midas in the Mozilla tree. So it's getting closer.
Scoble on Microsoft's antagonism toward communities. Microsoft pretty much has to hate communities, even pro-Microsoft ones, because the one thing Microsoft can't control is people. People will do whatever they like with Microsoft products, including (and, to some extent, especially) make Microsoft's business less viable.
I'm going to install phpBB somewhere I run a forum. Right now it runs an old version of YaBB, and I'll be happy to watch the fucker burn. Maybe the new version is better; they even moved from yabb.xnull.com to yabbforum.com, which shows an increase in professionalism that I hope made it to their product. But I hear good things about phpBB anyway.
Did I mention I'm using Adam Kalsey's SimpleComments here? I'm using SimpleComments here. Meanwhile John Gruber's SmartyPants 1.1 is available. It makes a change I made in my copy manually, namely turning just dash-dash and not space dash-dash space into an em-dash. He added <kbd/> to the list of tags not to "educate," but I had to add <script/> myself, as I discovered when making the ins/del frobber in my PyFunk functional spec entry.
A local woman killed herself with a train. If you didn't read the Wired News series on alt.suicide.holiday, you might.
While folks are pointing out friends who have weblogs now, I didn't notice Brian McGroarty started writing in his weblog Wednesday. (I had to help thwack his template, but that was a week or two ago.) This story (actually a rerun from his LiveJournal, but you didn't hear that from me) made me quip about the folk/children's song lyric. Then I Googled "ain't what it used to be," half to remember the actual rest of the lyric. Of course, even without Google's help, we eventually remembered it's "old grey mare" that ain't what it used to be.
Or at least, it was. What "ain't what it used to be" ain't what it used to be. Google told me so.
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I owe you a good many thanks for helping to thwack the CSS template; also for pointing me at MovableType. I’m impressed with it; I’d fully intended to cobble something out of C and shell scripts, but this is much, much nicer.
HTML validators everywhere will thank you by the time this is through.
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I’m extremely simple, and I write comments. Does that count?
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Perhaps! It very well may count!