Category: Tech

I’m working on a new ecourse/teleclass and figured I might as well invite my blog-folk! You’ve probably heard of RSS or news aggregators or any of the umpteen other inconsistent names for the idea of how to automate your websurfing. I like to think of RSS as having your own unpaid NYU intern chained in…

Continuing the migration to WordPress – moved the new folder into the main public directory. Flipped archives, links/blogroll and categories to their own links for a bit to see if I like that. I’m not sure if I do. I think a blogroll should be on the front page – it’s more polite: if someone…

Good God this is beautful. There’s no more CPU. http://www.apple.com/imac/

It may be due to the recent flux and chaos in my world that I feel like retreating to the precision of semantic XHTML. I know it makes me a huge geek but I sat here for a half hour re-planning my blog in full, compliant, semantically-constructed XHTML. Here’s what I have so far. DIVs…

Know any Zope-atistas? That is, developers that work on the Zope platform? I got the big-ass Zope Bible – barely used with CD still intact. You can buy it over at Amazon. It’s the cheapest used price out there.

The EFF is holding a patent busting contest Someone even tried to patent hyperlinks. (via Kottke)

The EFF is holding a patent busting contest Someone even tried to patent hyperlinks. (via Kottke)

Simmunity Corporation has created an interface to control a Game Boy Advance with only a tongue! Young quadriplegics are using it to play their favorite games. I think that this is too cool. (via Slashdot)

The therapy itself is a virus. The Lawrence professors created a virus altered to latch onto HIV and mute its ability to become AIDS. They’ve tested the theory in a computer model and in cells in a dish. The results have been promising, and if they continue in that vein, the researchers could begin animal…

I started wondering if there was some way to convert an Atom newsfeed into RSS on the fly. I really like my FeedReader aggregator and Newsmonster seems to always reboot my machine (actually it’s probably the Java). So between calls today I hacked together atom2rss.php. atom2rss.zip v0.1 super-alpha! It’s GPL, baby!