• Teal Sunglasses: Movable Type 3.0. Smart words from chuqui. More about what’s happened with MT. Main points are you have to be careful about the loyalty in your customer base. While you can say its no big deal to leave the first blogging community behind, from my own experience, you…

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  • Well, all good things have to come to an end. MoveableType will now “cost”:http://secure.sixapart.com are essentially $150-$900 for the personal weblogs that I manage right now (this site, Geekfishing.net and the related sites). The real issue here is whether they should charge or not, but they are making a classic…

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  • Creating a private blog

    Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- intro. Well, blogs are designed to be public, but what if you want a private one that no one else can see. There are a bunch of methods, but the .htaccess file is the easiest I’ve found for Apache on Linux (what my hoster uses).

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  • Learning about Longhorn

    Longhorn Developer Center Home: Conference In A Box. Smart idea with a hat tip to Scoble, this is a complete information in box about Longhorn. Lots to go through, but worthwhile.

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  • Webby Awards

    The Webby Awards: 2004 Nominees & Winners. Always cool to see who is doing cutting edge web stuff. The Webby’s are one place to look. Some are not surprising (ituns for ecommerce, google for best practices). Others were new and interesting: * “Tolerance.org”:http://tolerance.org. Won for activism. * “POV Borders”:http://www.pbs.org/pov/borders/index_flash.html. This…

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  • Bloglines is cool

    Bloglines | Most Popular Blogs. This thing is a combination RSS reader in the sky and a blogrolling application. YOu can find the top blogs for instance. YOu can also see when there is an update. THey have a notifier that runs in OSX, Windows or within Firefox. Interesting to…

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  • Wes Felter’s Hack the Planet Weblog. Wow, is guy prolific, some great pointers to links: * “Hymn”:http://hymn-project.org/. This enables you to play songs out side of the itunes environment (e.g., Unix). * “Dothan Overclocking”:http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/cpu/dothan/dothan-7.htm. It’s in French, but the gist of it is that the new mobile Pentium can be…

    Continue reading →: Cool new utilities from Hack the Planet
  • Playing with Blogger

    OK, I just realized I’ve been blogging since 2002. Amamazing its been two years. My early posts were stuck on blogger, so here they are: * Tongfamily. A small site * “Rich Tong”:http://richtong.blogspot.com. The old main site * “Connie Mao”:http://conniemao.blogspot.com. Connie nascent site. More up there as I play with…

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  • Don’t Back Down: Extending Mozilla. I’m beginning to really love this browser. The CSS edit is really cool way to understand CSS and the RSS Reader extension is amazing. “Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com/. Now check out bloglines which add blog support for it. Very cool. This is a free utility that keeps track…

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  • Lense Lust

    A Long March To Revolution: AFS 70-200 mm f/2.8 G ED IF Nikkor Reviewed. Well, this is the top of the line lense from Nikon. Just shipped, this is Vibration REduction and costs a cool $1,600 from B and H with $150 cash back offer, so its about $1,350. Something…

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