Author Archives: dlatureFB
Web Development Work for my own sake
It’s “for my own sake” cuz I’m not making any money. I gotta do that. Like yesterday. A short list of “projects” that I want to expand upon in the upcoming hours and days:
Unemployed at Birthday Time
Today marks 6 months of unemployment. Tomorrow, I turn 47. Those two facts together are spawning questions about how much longer it will take to reach some personal goals, like doing a job I feel called to do. Since around the year 2000, right about the start of summer, I was extremely frustrated with the job I had (which spanned Continue Reading
Google Hacks
an O’Reilly book describing the various “functions” (usually parameters) that can be employed to spawn certain Google behaviors and activities, for use on one’s own Web page or application. Click the picture to be taken to Amazon.com’s page on the book: Google Hacks
Upload file denied
I tried to do my first MT “Upload Image” today, but I get this when I try to upload the file: Got an error: CGI open of tmpfile: Permission denied I can upload stuff via FTP, but apparently the MT app (the CGI function) does not have permission to upload. Any ideas?
Movable Type Notice?
I have had a blog, using Radio, since June 2002. and have just started an almost “mirror” blog in Movable Type (I just LOVE the Trackback feature, at least what it represents). Is there a “listing” of Movable Type blogs to which I should submit my listing (other than the one MT automtically updates when I create a new entry?
World Class Theo(b)logical Stuff
AKMA blogs a review of tech-talks at Seabury in World [Class] Series:
Theses 8 to 10
In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked employees, people are speaking to each other in a powerful new way. These networked conversations are enabling powerful new forms of social organization and knowledge exchange to emerge. As a result, markets are getting smarter, more informed, more organized. Participation in a networked market changes people fundamentally. Second, powerful new forms of social Continue Reading
Talk amongst yourselves
Cluetrain theses 8 thru 10 In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked employees, people are speaking to each other in a powerful new way. These networked conversations are enabling powerful new forms of social organization and knowledge exchange to emerge. As a result, markets are getting smarter, more informed, more organized. Participation in a networked market changes people fundamentally.
AKMA on Weinberger in AKMA-land
AKMA, in blogging the presentation Weinberger gave at Seabury-Western A global recommendation system has sprung up, making us interested in things we never knew we would be interested in. While there’s value to straining toward objectivity, the Web provides a massively interlinked intersubjective network, giving some of the weight that objectivity always used to have. For me, this is the Continue Reading
God’s web developers?
I see Church publishers and organizations providing us with plenty of “religious versions” of “marketer-speak’; phrases and lingo that does not quite ring true. Absent, are the “testimonies”, the expressions; the passion. CHurches and their “communication” agencies have been mysteriiously absent from any discussions , say for instance, in the “Social Software” arena. The Pope’s Astrophysicist article in WIRED back Continue Reading
Bridging the Gap and Enabling Voice
Commerce is a natural part of human life, but it has become increasingly unnatural over the intervening centuries, incrementally divorcing itself from the people on whom it most depends, whether workers or customers. While this change is in many ways understandable — huge factories took the place of village shops; the marketplace moved from the center of the town and Continue Reading
Restoring old links. Suggestions?
I was able to export a tab delimited text file and import it into an Access table, which gives me all of my old Rdio Shortcut names (articles and stories), and the URLs. If I wanted to do a batch search and replace of all the text in the MT database where the string “” (, in quotes) , and Continue Reading
IE6 problem with Movable Type 2.6.3?
My text in the main body area on the home index page does not wrap, and this seems to be a problem unique to IE6. Is this the case? (It is also NOT the case with the index pages below the main index (like Individual, Monthly, and Category index pages) It’s SOOOO irritating! What gives? I have several comments back Continue Reading
Searching for Weblog Host Software
I am looking for ASP.Net Weblogs (not Weblogs about ASP.Net, but Weblog systems written for the .Net platform.) Also I want one in Cold Fusion and in PHP/MySQL. These three platforms: ASP.Net, Cold Fusion, and PHP, all are platforms I want to learn to wite to, and playing with installing Weblog systems and “monkeying” with these is a good way Continue Reading