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Continue reading →: MovableType 3.0 Released: I'm so sad
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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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: Cool new utilities from Hack the Planet
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…
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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: Bloglines for Mozilla Firefox
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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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: Rich Tong's Livejournal
Rich’s Journal. Saw a bunch of entries on LiveJournal. Inspired me to create a site up there so I can be authenticated when commenting up there. A nice freeware application.




