off.Root is a much cooler name for this blog, at least cooler than “newBlog.” The idea actually came from our friend Gecko, who in mentioning that he didn’t understand anything on this site said things were easier to follow over in root, which I thought was nifty. So this is now off.Root, because it looked better with the dot in there. Old URLs should redirect to their appropriate locations automagically, you’re welcome. Also worth noting, I upgraded to the final WP 1.5 release.
2/27/2005
2/23/2005
2/19/2005
The Beauty of Dvorak
So I’m actually trying to switch to Dvorak. My progress?
rvmiller89: and here i thought a Dvorak layout was supposed to increase your typing speed
2/16/2005
Server Restoration
The site’s back up, we were down yesterday during a server switch. Now we’re residing on a server with a nice 1GB of RAM (my PC has a quarter that) and more free space than the old one. So get back to not commenting.
BTW, WordPress 1.5 stable was released yesterday. No official announcement yet, but I guess I’ll be upgrading my other blog soon (and this one too, but still).
2/15/2005
Mozilla Goodness on your WinCE handheld
Mozilla’s developing a version of its mobile Minimo browser for Windows CE. This is very, very good news, especially because putting Linux on most Pocket PCs is (currently) impossible. Could it be, a decent web browsing experience coming to a handheld near you?
2/14/2005
Use a DS as a PIM?
Nintendo licensing PalmOS? So what’s it mean? I guess this idea throws a wrench in the idea of V-Pocket being for video or something. Though this does sort of remind me of other, slightly less successful titles.
In other DS news, someone’s made their own game for it. Already.
2/13/2005
Just in Case
Just in case you happen to be as much of a social reject as I am, here are some starter tips.
It’s the Implementation, Stupid
(Sidenote: I originally was going to title this entry “Nofollow: destroyer of the Intraweb…?” but decided the new title was more fitting.)
I’ve been (somewhat) on the fence about the whole rel=”nofollow” thing, as not-so-recently announced by Google and a couple friends. Here’s a draft spec, for the uninitiated. But a lot of people who are gung-ho about nofollow being the single worst thing to ever happen to the Internet need to reevaluate some of their views. Perhaps their conclusion (nofollow is more harm than good) isn’t necessarily inaccurate, but their assumptions most certainly are.
It’d seem to me that in order to declare using rel=”nofollow” on links that can’t be trusted officially “bad,” it would have to be proven that nofollow would actually worsen the current situation with comment and trackback spam. And few people have seemed to be able to make that argument. Most who say it’s a bad thing say so because it breaks the Internet, destroys the “web” of links within the blogosphere, or simply wouldn’t stop the efforts of spammers in the first place. And of course, there are those who swear that this is just another ploy by Google to get it closer to world-domination. I have my doubts about at least that last point, but the problem with these arguments is either that they’re untrue or don’t make nofollow “bad.” Ineffective, perhaps. Not “bad.”
2/12/2005
Don’t mind me
Just trying to pull off an upgrade to WordPress 1.5-gamma, now that they’re having upgrade parties and whatnot. Normally I’d be saying that it’s just an excuse for a geek to have a social life, but one can see that logic is flawed when one considers the fact that only other geeks would attend an upgrade party.
(Note to geeks: please take the above in jest.)
Update: Done, I think. Took maybe 20 minutes in all, now to play around with new settings.
Own any domain - in Firefox
News from the browser front: a cross-browser exploit that, for once, doesn’t affect IE. Well, not entirely:
Most mozilla-based browsers (Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, Mozilla 1.6, etc)
Safari 1.2.5
Opera 7.54
Omniweb 5
Some bazar versions of IE, or any version of IE with the I-nav plugin.
Full advisory, friendly demonstration, and a bit of background. It’s been fixed, of course, but you know.