Scott Hacker reports an update on Hopkin, including the revelation that the original poster was drawn, not by a child, but by an autistic 16-year-old.

The library of images is growing. To “jump” ahead to where you last left off, try typing in a higher number.

Greg and Ted… are you guys even old enough to know how funny this one is?

http://lostfrog.org/84.html

It’s even more funny to me because I first played “letter” in high school in Alan Cronce’s basement on a terminal that used *paper* (not CRT) output. He hacked into the Georgia Tech network to play it. Alan and Charlie stole the terminal from BellSouth which was sponsoring our Boy Scout Explorer’s group…. but that’s another story…

I have disabled the Configure Weblog for all users except Ted, Kelly, and Eric. I did this because when enabled, there is an option that shows on the main menu “Delete Weblog” which wipes out a person’s entire blog. It could easily be accidentally hit or enterpreted as “delete the last posting”. This is what happened to Danny last year.

Deleting your log would not be a tragedy, because everything is backed up once per day. But it would be a hassle for me to restore.

For most people it means they will not see many of the settings that you don’t really change, so it won’t matter. However, it is fun to change your blog descriptions sometimes, and I think Kelly, Eric, and Ted are most inclined to do that.

This is a test to see if the archive template field with this value:

/.html

Will create the improved permalink format /yyyy/mm/dd/blog_title.html

Ignore.

Since Greg moved Rosary Army off of mac.fiveforks.com, I have not had the visibility of new postings on RA as I used to have. Greg added an “RSS” feed on Rosary Army that can be used by a feed-reader like Bloglines.com. So I’m happy to now have Rosary Army in my blog watch list. The feed is: http://www.rosaryarmy.com/ra.xml.

I have three bookmarks that I use every day: My Yahoo, Bloglines, and mac.fiveforks.com. My Yahoo is for news, stocks, and some e-mail, like receiving Clark Howard’s e-mail newsletter.

Bloglines is a web-based “Feed Reader” that keeps tabs on several different blogs I read. It’s kind of like a My Yahoo for your favorite blogs. It can also receive e-mail newsletters like Motley Fool’s News. (I should really move my Clark Howard subscription to it… hmmm…) Bloglines is much more efficient than visiting blogs directly, because it keeps track of new postings and puts them all in one place. Very useful for blogs where new posts appear every now and then. It is better than software-based feed-readers in many ways, but mainly because I can access it from any computer at any time (Home or work, IBM or Mac.)

I went ahead and put Ted, Kelly, Carol, Claire’s and other mac.five blogs in Bloglines. So I often don’t make it to mac.fiveforks.com because I read new postings via bloglines first. (Although I like the comments summary on mac.five.)

Bloglines has other features, including the ability to share your bloglines and you can even have your own blog. I don’t use the blog feature, since I use MovableType, but for fun, I tested it and it works.

This is a link to my Bloglines blog:

www.bloglines.com/blog/fishback

This is a link to the public view of my Bloglines feed reader:

www.bloglines.com/public/fishback

If you keep up with more than 5 blogs or other “RSS” feeds (like SlashDot) then I recommend Blogines.

This free service provides a smaller graphic than the Weather Channel’s “web magnet” which I am currently using. May switch.

Mini forecast:

Found this and other fun tips here on Elise’s Learning MovableType site.

birdhouse.org: Random Quotes

In 1990, I started a family diary on our 512K Macintosh using HyperCard. It was similar to a blog, but rather than web pages, information was on a card. The card could hold text, graphics, sound, and I could program buttons on the card that would do things like search, print, go to the next card, etc. The text could have hyperlinks so that one card could reference another. Different people in the family (mostly Nicole) could write entries. So it had a lot of the same capabilities as MovableType, it just was not shared on the internet.

Two other differences were screen size and color. HyperCard was born in a 9″ black and white screen world. The screenshot below is from our 17″ flat panel iMac. The “Our Diary” HyperCard stack is on the left and mac.fiveforks.com is on the right.

Apple just announced a 30″ screen. I’ve estimated how the 17″ screenshot above would fit on a 30″ screen.

I imported all of the old Our Diary entries into MovableType so they would not be trapped in a closed format. Although here in 2004, HyperCard still runs.

Google started advertising random drug testing services on mac.fiveforks.com. I think this was triggered by my comment on random photos in response to Eric’s question.

I wonder if the new postings and comments on the right have greater weight because they are near the ads?

We’re up to $14.47 in Google ad revenue. Keep clicking those ads!

Learning Movable Type: Moving your MT Blogs to a New Server or Web Host