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Updates to weblogger.el
March 6th, 2008I've made a few changes to the latest weblogger.el from SVN.
I've changed it so that it's more obvious that the "Subject" field would be the title, instead of using the first several words of the first line, or using <title></title> markup in the entry.
I also exposed the "Keywords" field so that it's easy to add categories to the entry.
I still have a couple to-dos. When editing previous entries, the dateCreate param gets screwed up. It's either a problem with the version of WP I'm running, or I need to figure out how to determine the timezone of the dateCreate param, and pass the same timezone back to the server.
I also want to change the fields that are displayed by the weblogger-entry-edit function. I'd rather the fields reflect the "blog" fields, rather than "email-like" fields.
Testing (again) weblogger mode
March 6th, 2008While trying to edit previous posts, it seems to be doing some strange things to the timestamp.
Edit:
Interesting. I originally added this post at 12:42am, and the post is currently showing a time of 01:42am. I wonder if the time should be in GMT/UTC as opposed to "local" time.
I wonder if the timestamp will stai the same when I say this entry. Time to add some stuff and see what happens.
Edit 2:
Ah ha! WP really wants the timestamps in GMT/UTC and not local time. At the time of this edit, the time is 9:42pm. Let's what happens when I set it to 5:42am.
Testing emacs weblogger mode
March 6th, 2008Testing posting with emacs, using weblogger mode.
A need to speak
March 5th, 2008I have this strange yearning to start blogging again.
The past few days, I've found myself looking for different ways post entries that do not require a browser, or anything particularly GUI-based. I found a few different ideas to use perl to talk to WordPress via XML-RPC. I think the easiest way to use this would be to read in a marked up text file and post based on the mark up - much like how Blosxom works. But instead of saving the text file a certain directory, I would read in the file and then toss it. I could probably write something smarter, but I think this would be a good starting point for me.
Another idea that I'm tossing around my head is to try to get the weblogger mode to work on the box that is hosting this blog. That way I'll have a secure way to post by connecting to the box with ssh then running emacs to do my writing. Call me weird, but I like writing text in a text console.
Fair Use as demostrated by Disney characters
May 18th, 2007Wired has a blog post about a 10 minute short film that explains copyright law as it exists right now in the United States of America, and what is fair use. And of course, the only proper way of doing this is to use clips from various [Disney] films to define it all. The film came out of Stanford's Fair Use Project.
The film starts by defining copyright, and then goes onto describing what can and cannot be copyrighted. Next, it describes the original duration of a copyright, what that duration is as of today, and what the public domain is. Then, it talks about fair use, and finally the creators motivations for using Disney clips and characters in this short film.
As I said above, it's a short film, about 10 minutes long. It's quite educational on the subjects of copyright and fair use. Everyone should watch it and let their friends and family know about it.
The show is over, Studio 60
May 14th, 2007After months of being off the air, it is final - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is dead.
I guess, I just don't get it. I don't understand why a show as funny and well written as Studio 60, why it failed, why it did not succeed. Aaron Sorkin's previous show, [The West Wing], was a big hit. But then again, his first show, Sports Night, only lasted 2 seasons.