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I have been wanting to re-focus my blogging, and return to writing only about my woodworking. I’ve set up a wiki, and installed a new instance of WordPress, and tried all sorts of technical things, but just don’t seem to be able to get the flow of the thing, and actually get any writing done. [...]
[Keywords: Blogging, wordpress, workshop, Writing] [3 comments] [Permanent link]
Listening to Radio 5 Live on books and print-on-demand and whatnot.
I’m not actually all that enthusiastic about this silly address book plugin, y’know. I’d rather be back fiddling with a little idea I had a while ago for a distributed bibliography thing for WP. Something a bit like LibraryThing, except that all the book data is stored within one’s own database, and importing other people’s [...]
[Keywords: bibliography, books, LibraryThing, Reading, wordpress] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Monday morning. A weekend of much work and little writing, in which I thought (yet again) to chuck the blog, chuck the computer, and return to Moleskine and ink. I didn’t; I just went to work. And two comments on my last post, in as many days — I actually had no idea that anyone [...]
[Keywords: I.T., In support of I.T., luddism, technology, Wordsworth] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Tom M. Wilson » Prehensile Precursor: My brother, remembering the pepermint trees in the park near where we grew up. The trees are still there, with their crows-nests of safety, and they have grown: seemingly at the same rate as myself, so that when I stood below one recently, its branches felt just as excitingly [...]
[Keywords: childhood, Tom M. Wilson, trees] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Right. Well, Facebook’s a waste of time just like it used to be. What a suprise.
Back on Facebook, for some daft reason. Oh, I remember… I wanted to say hullo to someone… but can’t find them…
I had hoped to be able to post an announcement today about a new version of the Addressbook plugin, but unfortunately it’s not quite ready. I’ve done a bit of fiddling (this will only add 0.0.1 to the version after all), and have just a little more to do. Then I will get on with [...]
[Keywords: Addressbook plugin, coding, God, honesty, Quakerism] [2 comments] [Permanent link]
I have been reading Lessig’s Free Culture, specifically about the four different types of content-sharing that he identifies on p2p networks: sharing content that the user would otherwise buy (bad); sharing content as a precursor to buying it (good); sharing unavailable content (good); and sharing freely-available content (good; and the preceeding three were all about [...]
[Keywords: Duplication of content, Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig, Tropicana] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Right. There we go. What was I saying? Yes, Addressbook Plugin… Desiderata thus far (taken from comments and emails, and in order of proposed implementation): Export CSV; Import CSV; Photo upload (probably over-ride the Gravatar, but show a note that there is a Gravatar?); Custom fields; I’ll also be refactoring most of the code while [...]
[Keywords: Addressbook plugin] [Permanent link]
Thanks to all the modern things I have just this morning become aware of NaBloPoMo, which seems to be the alternative, for those lacking in ambition (like myself), to NaNoWriMo. The idea is to write one post per day for the whole month. Why? Well, I’m not quite sure, but it seems that lots of [...]
[Keywords: Blogging, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, NaBloPoMo, Public diary, Tim Brook-Taylor, Why I write] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Aha! Now I know who _beetlebeb is (but I’m not saying).
Who is _beetlebeb?
I am wondering what Twitter is all about. It seems rather silly to me, so far. In fact, I suspect it IS rather silly. Especially the word l
The documenting of how we live, where we live, what we do — that’s what I’m interested in. And it’s a waste of time, really, in that it doesn’t contribute to any of those things (oh, of course that’s simplifying it too much; oh well). It’s also necessary to live, to be of the world, [...]
[Keywords: community, dichotomy, documentation, Making, modernity, recording, Wikis] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have been working again this morning down at the Local History Collection at the library. The newspaper clippings’ catalogue is progressing — up to a hundred and thirty clippings so far — and proving to be quite an interesting project. This morning I got up to the end of 1953, the beginning of ’54, [...]
[Keywords: archiving, cataloguing, Fremantle, indexing, local history, newspapers, volunteering, wikisource, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I yearn for quiet (I’m a Quaker, after all, and feel silence to be a necessary precondition for hearing the ssvw). Especially when I’m reading. But public libraries are not silent. Libraries, you see, are meant to be fun. In the morning, there are creches that consist not of storytelling but percussion-accompanied singalongs. Foreign language [...]
My new home:
[Keywords: Edmund Street, sheds] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I have arrived at long last! I’ve been in WA for two weeks already, and I have only in the last couple of days a) been for a swim, and b) unpacked my tools and started to think (once again) about wood. I’ve been more concerned, for some reason, about getting a job, or working [...]
[Keywords: personal email archiver, saw horses, saw stools, workbench, workshop] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have been playing around with a different form for this website for the last couple of weeks. Because I don’t particularly care if people don’t have access to it all the time, I made the changes to the live site, and so it’s looked pretty bad lately. Lots of changes behind the scenes, though, [...]
[Keywords: Brindabellas, IBM, MacKennal Street, moving, samwilson.id.au, software, storage, tuggeranong, website, White Gum Valley] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I really shouldn’t have bothered with that last post; siting in that office, my brain confuddled with fluro lights, cake, and the ‘net, I can never think well enough to write anything. I should get that by now. So I’ve left the place, earlier than I should’ve, walked across town towards the dam wall, and [...]
[Keywords: escape, exploration, Exploring, tuggeranong, urbex] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Right. Well then. My idea, this week, is to write more. So far, I have failed. I have nothing to say. There is nothing going on, nothing worth talking about. But I want to write. * * * I have six weeks and two days to go at IBM. I’ve bought my train ticket, and [...]
[Keywords: Blathering, Blogging, IBM, Leaving Canberra, Nikon D60, tuggeranong, Writing, Writing in public view] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’ve come up the east hill today, just to see where it goes, what’s up here, and what I can see. I can’t believe I’ve been this way before. It’s such an obvious high point, from which I can see all of (tiny) Tuggeranong spread out along the valley, and the scrub and the hills [...]
[Keywords: Exploring, leaving the office, scenery, tuggeranong, Urban Exploration] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Reading history is a bit like reading fantasy or sci-fi; it’s just that the fanfic of history is generally more consistent than that of fantasy. I have been reading history lately (Victoria and Disraeli by Theo Aronson, the last couple of days, to be precise; history about personal relationships) and it is the story that [...]
[Keywords: Alternate world, Darkover, fanfic, fantasy, History, Marrion Zimmer Bradley, Reading, Theo Aronson, Victoria and Disraeli] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Last night I went to an ACS talk about teleworking. Against my expectations, I actually really enjoyed it. Within five minutes the presenter — Bevis England: a neat, friendly, almost English-sounding Kiwi — had mentioned peak oil and the way in which biofuel production is pushing up food prices. The environmental benefits of teleworking have [...]
[Keywords: ACS, Australian Computer Society, Food shortages, IBM, Peak oil, Telecottage, Telework, Working from home] [4 comments] [Permanent link]
Bugfix release 1.1 for Addressbook is now available from the WP plugin repository. I’ll get to the outstanding feature requests soon, I promise (feel free to hassle me here though — and don’t email me, it doesn’t work).
[Keywords: Addressbook plugin] [11 comments] [Permanent link]
I have finally gotten around to fixing the most major bug that’s been festering in the Image Flicker documentation. Sorry for my laxity in this. To make up for being slow, I’ve added a widget, to make it easier to use the thing. Isn’t that jolly exciting? Leave comments, bugs, and feature requests below.
[Keywords: Image Flicker plugin] [22 comments] [Permanent link]
[This post was about version 0.9, but I've sorted out a major bug, and added Gravatars, and because my daft consecutive version numbering system was up to it, I've had to release Version One twenty minutes after 0.9; I didn't see the point of writing a whole new post.] I’ve added support for the hCard [...]
[Keywords: address book, Addressbook plugin, gravatars, hcard, microformats, plugins, wordpress] [8 comments] [Permanent link]
A 'New' Way to Read and Write — January 16th, 2008, 12PM
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I have been reading, lately, about writers’ relationships with computers, specifically the idea that the technology used to write (pen versus keyboard, etc.) affects what’s written. Nothing new in that discussion, but I have noticed one thing: that whilst most writers say that their work is different depending upon what it’s written with, and that [...]
[Keywords: Arts and Crafts (movement), books, cartography, how I write, keyboard vs. pen] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Image-Flicker v.0.2 — January 2nd, 2008, 9AM
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The second version of Image-Flicker now available. This release fixes a problem with quoting and entities in the description field. If there’s anything I’ve missed, please let me know in a comment to this post. Thanks!
[Keywords: coding, development, Image Flicker plugin, images, slideshows, wordpress, wordpress plugins] [13 comments] [Permanent link]
