Thursday, July 31, 2008
Posted on July 31, 2008
Filed Under All, Taking Faith, Weblogging, Technology, Context |
So, today we’re blogging in the mode that once was the norm for gulker.com, back when we used Radio as our blogging tool (and before that, a collection of hacks in Userland Frontier). For a while, in the mid-late 90s, the blog was served from the Frontier database, a primitive (in the case of my code, anyway) harbinger of tools like WordPress that also serve from a database using scripts to unite text, pictures and templates into a whole.
Most templates for tools like WordPress (which you’re looking at now) emphasize the post: there is a headline, followed by text and possibly photos, graphics or other rich media. Radio emphasized the date, and let you assemble multiple snippets (and timestamped each one). Today, I’m in a multiple snippets mood. So here we go… (9:21 AM)
Here’s a very typical Radio-style page from five years ago. Lots of links and short items… (9:36 AM)
New Scientist this week has a special section on Reason, with essays authored by everybody from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to Roger Penrose. Faith, PR firms and quantum theorists are all ganging up on Reason. Very interesting stuff… (9:41 AM… update 10:32)
While browsing old stuff on Google Docs, I found this secret blog post from last July. . What a difference a year, and expert rehabilitation therapy, makes… (10:14 AM)
Scott, Tiger Lily and I just walked 2.4 miles, a new record for our threesome. It took 1:25, for a ’speed’ of 1.7 mph. Scott and Lily are my ‘rabbits’… (3:59 PM)
Comcast ’support’: I’ve spent a very frustrating day trying to contact Comcast support. I dutifully waded through all the FAQs and the support robot, to no avail. Every time I try to get a live chat connection to a support person, the site makes me fill out a form with all my contact info (even though I’m logged in and they have all this info) before giving me a ‘Queue unavailable’ error. Clearly, the form is meant to deter users, as is the error message: after 4 attempts I’m deterred. And really pissed off. Congressperson, please get on the FCC’s case about stupid cable monopoly policies… (4:13 PM)
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You’ll be glad you never got Comca$t support & had to pay the $75 to fix their own sabotage. But be happy about it. Corporations are good. I saw it on Google.