spoons

blocksom? bloss-zum?

Posted in spoons on January 29th, 2003 by larcher – Be the first to comment

Not sure why I took so long in trying out blosxom
but it’s really neat. and easy. just set up a test blog in about 2 minutes. compared to about a whole evening for movable type.
:)

gniggolb

Posted in spoons on November 13th, 2002 by larcher – Be the first to comment

.. which is, of course, href="http://www.bradchoate.com/past/blogginginreverse.php">“blogging” in
reverse. (couldn’t resist, sorry.) Seriously though, nifty idea..

Here’s a tiny variation: why not have it so more than one person can answer
the questions too? Kind of like an inverted href="http://www.metafilter.com/">community blog. Anybody can ask a
question and anyone can post an answer.
There could be two sets of posts: answered and unanswered questions, viewable by everyone
Attached to each unanswered question there’s an ‘answer’
button which lets you post a reply and change the status to answered.

Might need some control, so the answering, asking, and/or viewing privileges might be given only to some users. Kind of like TMOL (which is down, bummer) where anyone can ask a question and hope the gurus answer it.

Definitely possible with MT, I s’pose.

what was I thinking?

Posted in spoons on August 22nd, 2002 by larcher – Be the first to comment

In the process of packing and hauling the rest of my stuff from my old apartment to the house we just moved into, I came across a note scribbled (by me) on a small slip of yellow paper:

p338 precambrian decorative cabbage

Apparently, this was a noteworthy phrase from some book I was reading … google (for once) was not helpful — there are only 10 pages on the web that contain all 3 words.

Update: Aha! These three words can be found together on page 338 of Cryptonomicon .. I’ll post the context when I’m back at home where the book is.