Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
So now that I’ve got my blog automagically rendering XML into HTML through XSLT for browsers that can’t hack it, I’d like to extend that to my entire web server. This will take a little bit more work. First I’ll describe the general concept: User…
I’ve created a first rough go at an XSLT renderer for pyblosxom. It’s not perfect, but it’s not horrible either. I need to figure out how to get the flavor of the of the request before entering the renderer. I don’t want the XSLT renderer…
I realized that my first incarnation might have been a bit unrefined in some respects. This new version is much easier to run an XSLT parser over and eliminates a lot of the redunancies. Feel free to fetch the new version from the same spot.…
Today I officially created my first plugin for pyblosxom. I wasn’t happy with the calendar plugin that shipped with it, so I hacked it to ouptput straight XML. Then the XML can be parsed in XSLT like the rest of the system. This leads to…
Okay, so I’ve got an XML/XSLT version of my weblog that I’ve been working on. I would like for the XML/XSLT version to be the default for browsers like Mozilla and Firebird while retaining the HTML version for the rest of my website. However, Pyblosxom…
This is the first entry that I’m doing with the new blogging system, pyblosxom. I’ve looked at a lot of systems, and for the past year I used Movable Type but it was probably a bit more than I actually needed. To make things worse…
So I posted weblog about being banned from yahoo and it was dormant for months. Now I seem to get a comment about every two weeks from people who think I can magically get their yahoo accounts back. Yup, I’ve got magic powers on a…
This has to be one of the most intereseting social engineering efforts that I’ve ever seen. Apparently some people in New York are organizing themselves to all show up at a particular store for 10 minutes, the miracuously disperse. There is more information over at…
I’m a little sad. Hurricane Electric had to filter IRC traffic over their TunnelBroker IPv6 service. Apparently some people were doing dos attacks with it. That makes me sad, I enjoyed it because I could set my own reverse DNS. I still can for IPv6,…
There is a pretty good interview with Bruce Sterling at news.com.com. It varies from topic to topic, but spends some time talking about the dangers of data mining, mentions TIA, and other assorted stuff.