{"id":553,"date":"2003-01-10T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-10T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=324"},"modified":"2003-01-10T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-10T14:52:00","slug":"324-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/553","title":{"rendered":"Imported from MozDawg without title"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><font size=\"-1\">*What a piece of crap this blogger interface is &#8230; ^X cut text, just now (in this case, a nicely formatted unordered list of links c\/w comments), but nothing got stored on the clipboard. Thanks loads, but I really knew where the DEL key was, and I did not <i>need <b>this<\/b><\/i>! The service is definitely worth FREE! [shiet! Really, though, who needs this?!]*<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"+2\"><b>*<\/b><\/font><font size=\"-1\"> Holy Shiet!! I just re-enterred the data manually, but it disappeared when I resized this frame! I don&#8217;t want to crap on blogger.com, or on LiveJournal (which has been bediveled for days, and right now will not allow updates), but Geeezus, when are we ever going to get <i>anything <b>working<\/b><\/i>??! Damned M$ mentality is a plague.<\/font><font size=\"+2\"><b>*<\/b><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr width=\"45%\">\nIf you&#8217;re into free information, and\/or annotation services, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andamooka.org\/\">Andamooka<\/a> is a must peek. I haven&#8217;t stepped through much of it yet (more to come) but it has brought a couple of interesting things to me immediately: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andamooka.org\/reader.pl?section=kde20devel\">KDE 2.0 Development (Table of Contents)<\/a> is not exactly chopped liver *ooh &#8230; time for lunch!*, and I look forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/greenteapress.com\/thinkpython.html\">How to Think Like a Computer Scientist:<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/obp\/thinkCSpy\/\">ToC of the HTML version<\/a>) , though this seems very focussed on Python and kinda uninspired on the &#8220;thinking like a Computer Scientist&#8221; bit. (I loved the way <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/\">Jon Udell<\/a> [in e-mail] answered my &#8220;who but a programmer would have seen into this *ESP trick*&#8221; with &#8220;a <i>magician<\/i>!&#8221; huh huh).<\/p>\n<p>\nTacked onto the GreenTea page was a nice plug for <a href=\"http:\/\/greenteapress.com\/easy.html\">The Five Easy Ways to Help Promote Free Books<\/a>. Also of note is the fact that their Python book is hosted by the good folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/obp\/\">Open Book Project<\/a>. Support everyday heroes!!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>*<font size=\"-1\">Ok &#8230; what&#8217;s next, problems posting to my server? [sigh] &#8230; fine fine fine, bring it on, let&#8217;s get on with it.*<br \/>\n<b>!<\/b> Struck by lightning &#8230; I <i>knew<\/i> this last comment would cause me grief: something on this page is calling bloglog.com (for no good reason I can see) &#8230; and it isn&#8217;t responding (though it responds when addressed directly) &#8230; what a Geezus kludge the web is becoming. I guess the early days were just a come-on, in order to scoop the cream while the scooping was good. <b>!<\/b><br \/>\n* Cute &#8230; now something is calling blogblog.com, whoever the hell that is.*<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*What a piece of crap this blogger interface is &#8230; ^X cut text, just now (in this case, a nicely<a href=\"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/553\" class=\"searchmore\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}