All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
Welcome! This is the first post at my new hosting service, pair.com. Actually, I’ve been using pair to host glowrocks.com for almost as long as my other ISP (to be named once I’m free of their incompetent clutches). There are bound to be a few broken links, etc. but for the most part the transition … Read more
I’ve been thinking about this notion that google might start segregating blog search results. I have questions about how they would be able to tell a blog from “regular” content. Also, while granting the ephemeral nature of many blog entries, (though in aggregate such posts can still reveal interesting data, such as “hot topics”, popular … Read more
Thanks to a tip I found at Dive Into Mark, both of my RSS feeds now validate. I was also pleased to find my CSS page validates, though it does generate some warnings as well. It should be noted that the RSS standard is not as well established as either the CSS or HTML standards. … Read more
Here are some quick thoughts on various news RSS news aggregators I’ve used or looked at in the past few months. This is in no way an exhaustive, feature by feature, detailed review; it’s just a quick overview of my experiences.* Feedreader: nice, but consumed massive amounts of system resources and currently seems to have … Read more
There are some flash applications that are truly cool, and the geoblog site hosts one such example. Displaying a cool world map (it shows the current daylight area), the application monitors a list of recently updated blogs generated from weblogs.com. It checks for new blog entries every minute and then fetches and displays the first … Read more
I’ve added a new feature over on the right side of the page. As you can see, the nominal location of the last few visitors to the site is listed. While not necessarily entirely accurate (see below), it’s still kind of neat! I say nominal (or is that pro-forma?) for a couple of reasons. One … Read more
Bookfilter is a blog devoted to books and all things book related. It’s a rich, though text-only, site which I found while browsing over at I Will Dare. I love books and bookstores, and so far during my quick visit to the site I feel like I’m in a large, wondrous bookstore, with many alcoves … Read more
Sorry. Anyway, thanks to metafilter, I found a site that has a wide variety of links to online resources devoted to the current WAR in Iraq. There are personal and corporate type blogs, as well as other resources such as map sites and audio/video links. Read the metafilter comments page for links to some interesting … Read more
From the proper-cased titles (no more all cap TITLES!), through the standard navigation elements (on most pages), a nicer title bar, and finishing with a completely new color scheme, I’ve just finished a major make-over of this site. Behind the scenes, I’ve made great use of MT code modules to help manage the common elements … Read more
While out looking for cool hacks to add to my blog, I came across the girlie matters MT tricks page. I was struck by the entry counts next to the category and monthly archive links, and quickly guessed that the same code that lists the number of comments in an entry was responsible. I was … Read more