Well, I’ve been here, but my blog has not. An OS X update nuked my blog and I haven’t had the time or will to try to fix it. The problem? A config issue in my php.ini file. Why didn’t I think of that?! Ha. Just for my own future reference (because I know I will have to do this again), I had to add /tmp/mysql.sock to the mysql.default_socket parameter.
ZDNet has published odds on possible announcements at MacWorld.
Xoops is a PHP-based content management system. Looks like Mambo.
Sony may be coming out with a new e-book reader and I think that this may be the time for it. I have been thinking a lot about the relevancy of newspapers today and always come to the conclusion that there is no better source for information today, but that the delivery of that content is not what people want today. I have little interest in subscribing to my local newspaper (or any newspaper) and I don’t often take the time to visit their sites to read the stories.
Semi-frequent readers of my site have probably been annoyed by my constant empty “Links” posts. The problem causing this has been a script that I’ve had running every night to grab new bookmarks that I have posted to del.icio.us and list them on the site. This script creates a post whether there are new links or not. I have disabled this and will just run it manually now so that I don’t have this goofy thing posting all of the time.
2005 is over and 2006 is here. I haven’t posted for a while and I have a decent excuse. My wife Amanda and I had our first child on December 15. His name is Liam and he is doing very well and we have all enjoyed our time together these past couple of weeks. I’m starting back to work on Tuesday while Amanda has the rest of the month off. Babies have a way of attracting lots of family and friends and it’s been real nice seeing everybody.
Nuvvo Learning Management System A hosted, AJAX-based learning management system that offers free accounts.
Adobe is expected to announce tomorrow the completed acquisition of Macromedia.
Official Delicious Plug-In for Firefox Official Delicious Plug-In for Firefox A well-presented list of open source projects for the macintosh. A well-presented list of open source projects for the macintosh. The list is broken into two sections. The first section contains the most popular applications divided by type. The second section lists many more, less popular applications. The quality of
Mozilla hasn’t announced it yet, but it’s out there. You can get the final 1.5 for macintosh here.
Word on the net is that Firefox 1.5 final will be released today.
The photo to the right is a snapshot of the front page of the Journal Star web page (our local daily paper) today. I realize that they did $100,000 in damage and that’s pretty incredible, but really – is this front page news? DC had their beltway sniper, we have… “Get the whole story on their site”:www.journalstar.com/articles/…
This morning I worked with two students from Cambridge, Nebraska on web development topics. Here are the links and other resources that I mentioned during that time. h3. Downloadable Files "Completed _America_ Project":[www.brianfitz.net/america_f...](http://www.brianfitz.net/america_finished.zip) h3. Web Sites "CSS Zen Garden":[www.csszengarden.com](http://www.csszengarden.com/) This site show what's possible with CSS by inviting CSS designers to contribute stylesheets to style a common html file. "CSS Vault":[www.cssvault.com](http://www.cssvault.com/) A showcase of CSS sites "
Blind Access Journal The Blind Access Journal is a blog centered around the goal of making the web and the content delivered over it accessibile to everyone. InterLinc: City of Lincoln: 5 CITY-TV Program guide for Lincoln's Educational Channel 21 Steadman A fantastic british band that provides free downloads to their music
Google has a few new things out. First, in my right column, you see a link to download Firefox with the Google Toolbar. Clicking on this link AND installing the software earns me a dollar. Yep! Google is paying a buck to those that get people to switch to Firefox. Want to earn money? Sign up. How do you sign up? That's the second thing. You can click on the image right under the Firefox image to sign up for Google AdSense.
Today was my birthday and my wife got us tickets to see harry potter tonight. We thought that the line would be sick, so got there early and we were almost the first ones -- felt kinda dorky (but got great seats!!). Line was much worse for the movie after ours -- it reminded me of the star wars opening weekend. Anyway. If you like potter, see it. It's good. It's dark, but I think they toned parts of it down.
After last Sunday's incident in Pennsylvania, where both students were found to have "blogs"?which didn't seem to forecast anything about what happened?schools and parents seem to be giving blogs much more attention. I hope that this provides opportunity for parents, teachers, administrators and anybody working with youth to start visiting these sites and to become familiar with them. It is futile to try blocking these sites for the purposes of keeping children away from them (I'm all for blocking when it comes to instructional management -- keeping students on task).
I was talking with my friend Dan this morning and he’s giving a presentation tonight regarding Internet Safety based on the government’s iSafe program. He asked what I thought about sites like Xanga and MySpace. The real questions seem to be, “should these sites be blocked by schools and parents” and “should students be allowed to use these?”. The broader question that gets asked is “are blogs bad?" First of all, blogs are not bad.
Microsoft, yesterday, announced a new Web 2.0ish portal that they call live. It seems to be Microsoft's attempt to say, "Hey. We can do this stuff too." You can get a local weather forecast and aggregate numerous news feeds -- all in an interface that does not fully support Firefox yet. (Microsoft is probably still looking for some slimy way to hook Firefox into the OS since they can't seem to do anything without leveraging Windows in some way.
Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. This is the first release candidate of mozilla's next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to their developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback. Mozilla Firefox Project (Development Information)