http://grdurand.com/blogger/ Charter member of the lunatic fringe. en-us 12 Mar 2010 16:23:38 GMT 12 Mar 2010 16:23:38 GMT http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Zeta Woof's BlogWare grdurand@yahoo.com grdurand@yahoo.com http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/hands-off.html The Mail Tribune. [David J.] Pyles came forward Thursday to reclaim his legally purchased weapons, publicly identifying himself in an e-mail sent to Medford police and forwarded to state legislators and selected media outlets. He also said he has contacted the Oregon Firearms Federation for possible legal assistance. Pyles directed questions to that group and said he would make only limited statements until he had consulted with an attorney. Kevin Starrett, director of the Canby-based 12 Mar 2010 16:23:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/hands-off.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/rss-update.html The new Zeta Woof BlogWare publishing system no longer supports the Atom syndication format. Henceforth we only publish a standard RSS 2.0 compatible feed bag. Glom the sidebar for the linky-doo. If you know what an RSS (really simple syndication) feed is, you probably know what I'm talking about. If you don't, big never mind. You're not missing much. 12 Mar 2010 06:18:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/rss-update.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/blogware-exposed.html Here's the promised screenshot of my new post editor. (Click to embiggen.) Told ya it was oogly. But the point is it works. And it's all mine. I own the code and I own the server. A few more obvious points. I edit in HTML mode, not in a WYSIWYG mode. It's just easier for me that way. When I click the preview button it writes the html files to a temp directory on my hard drive. I then view the files in Firefox. What I see there is really what I'll get. There are a lot of missing features yet. 11 Mar 2010 18:11:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/blogware-exposed.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/blogware-update.html If you can read this, my blog editor can now publish new posts to this blog all by its lonesome. Tomorrow: screenshots! It's ugly as sin, but it works. 11 Mar 2010 05:14:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/blogware-update.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/do-you-miss-him-yet.html Another amazing column by Stanley Fish, last noticed here reviewing a book by Sarah Palin. I assume he's a liberal since he writes for The New York Times, but, if so, he's that rare commodity, a liberal with a clue. 10 Mar 2010 03:20:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/do-you-miss-him-yet.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/nationwide-tax-day-tea-party.html Join the revolt. It's kind of cute, really. They're using Google maps to create a virtual march on Washington. You enter your name, email, zip code, choose a persona (I'm a Working Professional, portrayed as a guy in shorts and a T-shirt), and select a team (I joined the Reagan Tax Revolt Team), and click the Submit button (ooh, that's rather poorly named). Your personal appears on the map at a location corresponding to your zip code. Hover over it and your name appears: Gordon from Gold Hill, 10 Mar 2010 03:01:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/nationwide-tax-day-tea-party.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/the-blogware-struggle-continues.html I wasted an hour this evening twiddling with the libraries from Apache Commons. FTP works fine, but my server doesn't support FTPS (FTP over SSL). Plain old FTP is dangerous because the bad guys can intercept your transmissions, steal your passwords, and load nasty stuff onto your server. You don't want to use it unless you change your password on a daily basis, which of course makes it a nuisance. SFTP is different from FTPS but I can't find an open source for it. SCP, or Secure Copy, is what 9 Mar 2010 07:09:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/the-blogware-struggle-continues.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/rosemary-skewered-shrimp.html You might think of The Wall Street Journal as a business paper with a conservative editorial slant. It's more than that. The Weekend Journal, a special section of the Saturday issue, has Arts and Entertainment, Books, Style, Sports, and even Food and Drink. I especially like the last part. 8 Mar 2010 02:51:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/rosemary-skewered-shrimp.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/the-woof-is-back.html As I said last month, the charming folks at Blogger informed those who keep blogs on their own servers that they had until March 27th to move their blogs to the Google server farm, or else. I chose else. I figured I had until mid-March to cobble together some sort of publishing system of my own, at which point I could toss Blogger over the transom. I was right about the system but wrong about the deadline. Starting last week Blogger became increasingly reluctant to publish by FTP. It got to 7 Mar 2010 22:20:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/the-woof-is-back.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/temple-grandin.html By way of Are We Lumberjacks?, by way of Oregon Guy, an interesting TED talk by Temple Grandin, who was featured in the Weekend Interview Saturday before last. I understand HBO has also released a biopic. Wonder if it's on Netflix? 3 Mar 2010 03:32:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2010/03/temple-grandin.html