A few years ago, I got a laptop for Susan. It was pretty low-powered, even for its time — a 133MHz Pentium system. But even though it wasn’t terribly powerful, we got some use out of it, mainly for the kids go play games on, or for us to do some late-night web surfing from the comfort of our bedroom. That’s what we were going to do this weekend. I was going to do some … Continue reading
Announcing… Ping-o-matic! Now, my Blog Service Pinger has its own domain name. Together with Matt Mullenweg, I’ll be adding new features to the pinger over time. Major enhancements in the current version: Your blog name and uri are stored in cookies, and automagically filled in for you when you return. The pinger output dynamically appears in your browser as each ping completes. You no longer have to wait for all of the pings to complete … Continue reading
Lost 0.8 lbs since last Monday. Current weight: 262.6 lbs
Just ran across some good press for PHP and MySQL. The GAO needed a way to upgrade a lot of their surveys and move them on the web. They chose PHP as the main technology. “Java had some security issues for us, so that was off the table. PHP was just a better fit for us because of its ability to embed things with HTML pages,” says Kevin Dooley, senior IT specialist at the GAO … Continue reading
I just noticed that Tantek Çelik found my pinger, and had some nice comments about it. Maybe he’ll come back and see the new updates next week 🙂 Nifty how he’s using Technorati as a sort of outsourced trackback. I’ve seen a couple of people doing that lately, and I’ve been thinking about doing something similar. But I’ll probably wait until after we release WordPress 1.2, and I upgrade this site to the new code.
I’m putting the final touches on a new incarnation of my Blog Service Pinger, in coordination with fellow WordPress developer, Matt Mullenweg. This will be the first step of a completely new evolution of the pinger. We’ll be taking the covers off on Tuesday, April 20. Check back then for the big news!
I forgot to post this on Monday. I usually back-date the entry when that happens, but I won’t bother this time. I gained 0.2 pounds of muscle-mass since the previous Monday. Yay me! Either that, or I ate too much at Easter dinner, and I gained 0.2 pounds of fat. Boo me. Weight as of Monday, April 12: 263.4 lbs.
I was checking my stats and saw that my traffic was roughly twice as high as usual over the last few days. After some investigation of my referrer logs, I found out why: My Blog Service Pinger got linked by Anil Dash and waxy.org, and is currently at number 13 on Blogdex. For those of you who actually went beyond the pinger and are looking at my blog, Welcome! Come back soon. I’ve got some … Continue reading
I had some sort of unexplained jump in my weight early last week, so I’m actually up a half pound since last Monday. 😕 I really don’t know what happened. Oh well. I’m restocked on soups and other lo-cal meals and snacks at work. And Susan and I are planning to start getting up and exercising before work. That should fix things up. Current weight: 263.2 (my weight was 270.8 on January 5, which is … Continue reading
I apologize for the slow week. I’ve been quite busy at work, so not much time for outside projects. I usually spend part of my lunch hour on WordPress or other personal stuff, but I spent my lunches this week with coworkers, or debugging problems on a server. Plus, my wife was finalizing a big project of her own, so she needed the computer at home a lot more than I did. Oh yeah, and … Continue reading