{"id":88,"date":"2002-10-31T23:58:16-05:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T07:58:16+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=88"},"modified":"2002-10-31T23:58:16-05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T07:58:16+00:00","slug":"clearing-some-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/10\/31\/clearing-some-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing some&nbsp;backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>I&#8217;ve had 16 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/start\/1.0\/faq\/browser.html#2.3\">tabs<\/a> open in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/phoenix\/\">Phoenix<\/a> for several days now, full of good links (mostly discovered through blogs) that I need to get around to reading.  Tonight I finally made it to Joe Clark&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contenu.nu\/article.htm?id=1229\">In-Valids<\/a>, and the rest of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contenu.nu\/nublog.html\">NUblog<\/a> site.  (Oddly, his <q>editorial we<\/q> doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2002\/10\/12\/the_diurnal_record.html\">bother me<\/a> as much as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/\">Zeldman&#8217;s<\/a> does.  Go figure.  [I do like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/daily\/1002d.shtml#startingover\">new design<\/a> of the Daily Report, and he&#8217;s always got interesting links&#8230; except, again oddly, recently while he&#8217;s been focused on the redesign.])  Still outstanding: the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2002\/10\/06\/MN95697.DTL\">ChronicleWatch<\/a> and The Pragmatic Programmers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pragmaticprogrammer.com\/ppbook\/extracts\/no_broken_windows.html\">Software Entropy<\/a> (both from a single site that I neglected to record), Web Nouveau&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meryl.net\/css\/\">CSS Tableless Sites<\/a> (linked from various sources previously mentioned that I don&#8217;t want to list yet again), an SF Chronicle <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/object.cgi?object=\/chronicle\/pictures\/2002\/10\/21\/sp_swinggrf.jpg&amp;paper=chronicle&amp;file=SP68726.DTL&amp;directory=\/c\/a\/2002\/10\/21&amp;type=science\">infographic<\/a> showing why it&#8217;s <q>clearly impossible<\/q> to hit a baseball and (Michael) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palinstravels.co.uk\/\">Palin&#8217;s Travels<\/a> (both via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccablood.net\/archive\/2002\/10.html#27baseball\">Rebecca&#8217;s Pocket<\/a>), and a bunch of others.<\/p>\n\n<p>Also having trouble with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disobey.com\/amphetadesk\/\">AmphetaDesk<\/a> which may be related to my web proxy&#8211;it doesn&#8217;t actually <em>retrieve<\/em> channels that are updated, even when I kill it and restart, so I have to physically delete its cache.  After I <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2002\/10\/24\/linux_rss_aggregator_search.html\">dissed it<\/a> (more than I intended, upon re-reading the post) and got a nice response to the post from Morbus Iff, I&#8217;m hoping to figure out the problem and contribute it back instead of just complaining.  (Had it worked, though, I would have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2002\/10\/31.html#amphetadesk_0931_is_out\">Mark&#8217;s<\/a> post that a new version is available or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disobey.com\/dnn\/2002\/10\/index.shtml#1402\">the announcement itself<\/a>.  Ironic, no?)<\/p>\n\n<p>Finally, yesterday I delivered 50 copies of a CD project that I&#8217;ve been working on for a few weeks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sirens3.com\/\">Sirens<\/a>&#8230; and promptly discovered that it doesn&#8217;t work properly on Windows XP (even though it did on Windows 2000).  As a quality assurance person by day, you&#8217;d think I might be smart enough to actually <em>test<\/em> the thing before burning tons of copies and releasing it into the wild.  <em>Sigh.<\/em>  Donna discovered the error while showing it to Amber, and we determined a workaround that they can tell people to use, but I&#8217;m more than a little embarrassed that it&#8217;s there in the first place.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve had 16 tabs open in Phoenix for several days now, full of good links (mostly discovered through blogs) that I need to get around to reading. Tonight I finally made it to Joe Clark&#8217;s In-Valids, and the rest of his NUblog site. 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