Rodent Regatta

According to Six Log, something called RSS Winterfest is happening on line.

Don’t miss this interview with Nick Bradbury. Nick is a software developer who has great influence over the future of the web and weblogs by providing tools such as FeedDemon, TopStyle Pro and Homesite.

At Robert Scoble’s weblog I read that Nick uses a product/tool called Delphi to develop his software. That’s just another example of how each professional selects the tools that are right for their work. Artists pick water, oil, acrylic or other tools. Writers pick text or word processing software that suits them. Weblog writers pick from a variety of tools. Programmers are no different. From Java to Flash to .NET to Delphi and beyond, tools abound.

There’s a future book out there somewhere that describes how professionals from all walks of life selected and grew comfortable with the tools they use every day.

Good morning. Good coffee.

Sometime in 2004 I’m going to learn how CSS and PHP and standards and well-formed and valid and all of the other ”buzzwords” surrounding web design fit together.

For now, I think I’m supposed to be wowed by this. Click around on the links and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Now visualize that kind of technology applied to an entire web site. Ignorance of what it took to acoomplish it is the only thing stopping me from being wowed. Here’s the explanation page.

Here’s what I think you’re looking at. I think you’re looking at something that would make you think you’re seeing a photograph. Instead, I think you’re seeing a web page that was created using CSS and XHMTL.

As an executive who is very unlikely to ever be able to apply this stuff myself, I’m betting that the ”takeaway message” is, ”Be aware and insist on this sort of flexibility for every future web site you influence!” [originally discovered at redemption through standards]

Check the update at the end of this entry and you’ll learn that Movable Type 2.661 (a bugfix update) can now be downloaded.

Here’s a very non-technical view of upgrading to Movable Type 2.66.

Follow the prescribed steps for upgrading your particular installation of MT. If you are a user of MT-Blacklist, you should also go through the ”configure” option after upgrading your version of MT. Otherwise, I think you’ll see that you are not getting comment spam protection and/or you won’t be getting email notifications when comments are left.