Bye bye, so long ... (moving weblog)
I managed to import all my Radio content into a fresh installment of Movable Type, and will be doing my blogging from there from now on. Expect some tweaking and moving around in the next few weeks. Sorry, Dave, but your stuff wasn't stable enough, and I already waste time enough on blogging, let alone trying to debug my blog tool. It has been a fun ride, though, but Movable Type seems to be a bit more robust to me. Of course, I'll miss the news aggregator, but I'll find some way around. 115 blogs migrated, 15 second regeneration ...

All, please redirect your browsers/aggregators to http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/, feeds being available at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/index.rss (0.91) and http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/index.rdf (1.0), and also 2.0 once I got time to diveintomark.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

11:54:19 PM    comment []  

Escapism: migrating Radio to Movable Type
I'm trying to escape from the strangulation (and instability) of Radio Userland and move to Movable Type. Even better yet, I plan on migrating the content, too. My new installation of MT is already awaiting content at its new and cool URL, but unfortunately, most of the migration scripts and tools I found so far aren't really working - in particular with titles, which I have painstakenly added to most, if not all of my Radio blogs. Does anyone know of a script that preserves titles while migrating? Or does know a bit more about Python than me?
Update: I was looking in the wrong place - this did the trick :-)

10:02:08 PM    comment []  

Perception is reality, a visual proof
Look at this picture from Stefano's image gallery. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Andy!

3:27:22 PM    comment []  

Lounging on 1/Jan 2003
A lazy day. The boys are exploring the excellent Boowa & Kwala site, babydaughter is fast asleep upstairs, and we are trying to recover from our light hangover - too much wine yesterday evening...

Happy New Year!

2:55:16 PM    comment []  

TagSoup and the Academic Free License
John Cowan posted the first public release of TagSoup, a SAX HTML parser which corrects messy markup along the way. Apart from the actual implementation (I might as well use Andy's NekoHTML instead), John went at much length to pick a license for his open source project. He is using the Academic Free License, which has some special patent-aware clause in it:

Mutual Termination for Patent Action. This License shall terminate automatically and You may no longer exercise any of the rights granted to You by this License if You file a lawsuit in any court alleging that any OSI Certified open source software that is licensed under any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause infringes any patent claims that are essential to use that software.

Now that's a mean, but fine thing to add to a license - I assume this is an example of patent pooling.
2:16:41 PM    comment []  

POI year in review
A nice read by ACO liver - it's good to see he's actually making some money on POI. We are using it in xReporter.
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