Posted on August 12, 2008 by Mike
Since moving my personal blog to WordPress, I’ve found that is (2.5-2.6) is the first release of WordPress or MovableType that I’ve been really happy with…except for the commenting system. It was boring, and had really no features and was a bitch to edit or play with because of the crazy WordPress code (that and the whole freaking reason I’m using WordPress is because I want to come home and NOT have to code a blogging platform!).
Disqus has been an option for a while, but the fact they “trap” your comments didn’t sit well with me. Today they released their big 2.0 version, and finally I’m on board! The comments pass through to WordPress, and I also get all the fancy Disqus features, all with the ease of a WordPress plugin.
Note to the Disqus guys: I would have loved this for ToastedRav.com but I’ve already written my own system that I like a lot…however, if you get your API up and documented, I or more likely other big sites in our corporate group could take a hard look at you for sites that don’t revolve around comments like ToastedRav does. You gotta get that API up though, so I can recreate this great WordPress functionality in our custom environment!
Note: ALL of the old comments are missing until they are exported fully into the Disqus system. Suck. Hopefully it will be done and they will all come back soon.
Posted on April 11, 2008 by Mike
Both of them from “Jennifaer”:
- “revenue. Of all parts of the stock, either of an individual or of a society, first time lesbian hands, to perform a much greater quantity of work, so the former…”
- “annual produce of the land and labour of the country, to the real wealth and first time lesbians giving rim jobs The laws concerning corn may everywhere be compared to the laws…”
Clearly I’ve removed the links, but how freaking great are those!
Posted on April 11, 2007 by Mike
Technorati, the blog search engine, is searching for a new CEO… I guess it would be snide to suggest that their search will take forever, miss the obvious candidates and eventually time out with no results? Oh well.
Nice. (via Neil McIntosh through Valleywag)
Posted on April 10, 2007 by Mike
Tim O’Reilly’s “Rules of Conduct” for bloggers is, like its author, a pretentious piece of crap. Its a joke, and I wouldn’t even use it to wipe my ass (…and thats not just because printer paper is harsh and doesn’t make the best TP, its because it’s a pretentious piece of crap.).
By the way, Tim, I have way more than 2 sources of this, but I just don’t feel like listing them.
[There. I talked about it.]
Super Quick Follow Up: Jeff Jarvis has an excellent take on all of this. He didn’t mention wiping his ass with it explicitly, but his article were my initial thoughts on this exactly. Its a very well thought out article, which is something that would look completely foreign on this site between the Britney Spears jokes.
Posted on April 1, 2007 by Mike
Anil wrote this last year, but its still all too true: Your April Fool’s Joke Sucks.
“I changed my stylesheet! To someone else’s!” Why isn’t that funny? Because I still knew it was your site.
Posted on April 1, 2007 by Mike
SixApart, the company that makes the MovableType blogging platform, hosted a “Hackathon” day where people could just come, hang out and make cool stuff for Movable Type.
For those, like me, that missed out on the fun: Here is the flickr photo stream and here are a few select videos uploaded by one of the attendees. (via Learning Movable Type)
Why don’t they ever do this kind of thing in St. Louis? Seriously.
A Nasty Fat-Chick-like Update: These video were apparently recorded on a camera someone stole from a museum. They are tough to watch and even listen to. Bummer.
Posted on April 1, 2007 by Mike
I’m not going to lie. I’m hooked on Twitter. Its fun and everyone is on it.
I still have some questions though:
1. Where is this going to go? How long will it be cool? Is it going to die before Summer hits or will it find a niche in the web somehow?
2. Who’s going to use their API to make the first really amazing application? Twittervision is cool, but will there be any really useful apps in the near future?
3. Why don’t I have more friends and followers? Self answer: All my friends and co-workers are way to slow and none of them use Twitter.
4. Assuming some really cool app comes around will the fact that you have to be a Twitter member slow its usage in any group other than hard-core bloggers?
5. Why is it so fucking hot in my apartment right now?
6. What did Lindsay Lohan do to suddenly get sexy again?
7. What was I talking about?
Posted on March 30, 2007 by Mike
No posts lately. I should explain…
Its hard to post about the usual Hell Yeah Bitch! .com fair (like beating up handicapped people or something about Jenna Jameson) when you are:
1. Sitting in meetings for 2.5 straight days.
2. These meetings are run by a company that is very affiliated with a certain strict and uptight church.
Meeting are over at 12:00pm, I’ll be home by 9:30pm. Posting will resume with something screwed up soon.
Posted on March 26, 2007 by Mike
Twitter is the new fad among the Web Geeks and the best way to sum it up is that Twitter is micro-blogging. By that I mean, its lots and lots of little tiny pointless posts. Apparently the idea is the use this micro-posts to tell people what you are doing right at this very moment, like drinking coffee, giving it hard to a barely legal Vietnamese prostitute, or beating that last bit of life out of a baby seal. That of course turns out be just a little more hopelessly boring than it sounds which makes most Twitter streams about as boring as…well…their owner’s blogs about their cat. Naturally, I’ve been shunning Twitter all this time because of that.
So why the change? Well if you recall, or even if you don’t, which doesn’t matter because you can’t change the past, back in the olden times of Hell Yeah Bitch! .com I had a quote that I would change at the top of the page to be something different when I felt like it. It was somewhat fun, but I had to go in a change it by hand and I turned out to be lazy enough that I wouldn’t even write code to make it easier in the long run to change it, so after the redesign that followed, the quote was killed…or “end quoted.” After looking in to Twitter a little more today, I realized that this could be the Quote 2.0 (Forgive me for using 2.0, I’m a bastard.). So for now we (royally, of course) are using the stock javascript to put the latest Twitter at the top of the page. Rest assured though, you will not be seeing things like “I’m eating a sandwich” or “I’m putting on my diaper in preparation for my dominatrix to arrive” sprawling across the top of the screen. No, I’ll be instead using it for little oddities that pop into my head. It they aren’t funny let me know, if Twitter is slowing the site down, let me know, or if you think this is cool and you want in on the action, lets talk and we can find a way for all the “friends of the site” to be able to put a new quote up there. Of course that last option will mean you will have to actually admit to people that you read this site, so think about the consequences before you add me as a friend.
Right now I just have my Twitter account, but if this goes well, I may just make one for the site itself later on. I’m mikehyb.
Posted on February 22, 2007 by Mike
Since moving my personal blog to WordPress, I’ve found that is (2.5-2.6) is the first release of WordPress or MovableType that I’ve been really happy with…except for the commenting system. It was boring, and had really no features and was a bitch to edit or play with because of the crazy WordPress code (that and the whole freaking reason I’m using WordPress is because I want to come home and NOT have to code a blogging platform!).
Disqus has been an option for a while, but the fact they “trap” your comments didn’t sit well with me. Today they released their big 2.0 version, and finally I’m on board! The comments pass through to WordPress, and I also get all the fancy Disqus features, all with the ease of a WordPress plugin.
Note to the Disqus guys: I would have loved this for ToastedRav.com but I’ve already written my own system that I like a lot…however, if you get your API up and documented, I or more likely other big sites in our corporate group could take a hard look at you for sites that don’t revolve around comments like ToastedRav does. You gotta get that API up though, so I can recreate this great WordPress functionality in our custom environment!
Note: ALL of the old comments are missing until they are exported fully into the Disqus system. Suck. Hopefully it will be done and they will all come back soon.