bedeviled mojo slop

• be on yahoo messgener twice - Seriously though, IM services should not discriminate against those with multiple personality disorder. Seriously.
• john kerry livejournal icons - If you've read my previous redux posts, there's always a "* livejournal icons" item in there.
• ftl thongs - WWJW?
• any ideas on how to make a lobster costume - Red costume makeup, maybe some red piping, castanets for the claws, red jumpsuit, and some cardboard boxes for the parts of the shell. Extra points for the green gooey sack which could probably be a mix of peas and corn blended together.
• cristal drink of choice - The true playa only sips the Cris. I'm no exception.
• jonathan davis haircut - "A little off the top this time Trisha. Try not to make me look like a complete retard. "
• holland is the only country with a national dog - Snapple "Real Fact" #140. Sheeeeesh.
• i like the handle here that's so you can attach a chain and use - What the hell? No seriously. What the hell?!
• next version of os x server will include the blojsom - It's true. I'm not lying.

• Gin (preferably Bombay Sapphire). You could also substitute Vodka for gin depending on your taste.
• Peach Schnapps
• Pineapple juice
• Cranberry juice

Johnnie Walker, the world's best selling brand of Scotch Whisky today launched Johnnie Walker Green Label(TM) in the United States. Joining the portfolio of Red Label(TM), Black Label(TM), Gold Label(TM) and Blue Label(TM), Johnnie Walker Green Label is only the fifth new label launched by Johnnie Walker in 184 years and is one of the first pure malt whiskies to be distributed in the United States.

the crazy words of Philon - powered by blojsom

Hope your Thanksgiving was as joyous.

If rain is your thing, then it's a glorious day here in NY. If rain isn't your thing, then it's a dreary and stereotypical Sunday.

It's been raining since I got up and it doesn't look like it's going to let up until the evening. Oh well, the sun is always shining somewhere.

• Added format(String pattern, Object[] arguments method to ResourceManager interface. This method is a wrapper for the java.text.MessageFormat#format(...) method.
• Added getBlogLocale() and getBlogAdministrationLocale methods to Blog class.
• Changed default extension for entries written using XML-RPC and Atom to use .html instead of .txt. You can change your default by changing the blog-xmlrpc-entry-extension property in your blog.properties file.
• Added blojsom-installed-locales parameter to blojsom.properties. This setting is a comma-separated list of the installed locales used to localize the administration console. If not present or blank, this setting defaults to en_US.
• Added blog-administration-locale to blog.properties. This setting is used to indicate the localization setting for a blog when viewing the administration console. If not present or blank, this setting defaults to en_US.
• Implemented save and delete methods on FileBackedBlogCategory.

• Updated XML-RPC handlers and the Atom API handler to use titles of blog entries as the permalink name. If the title is not present, a GUID is generated.
• Patched XML-RPC library to correctly handle UTF-8 for remote editing via XML-RPC.

• Added German, Korean, and Swedish localizations for the web administration interface.

• Updated RSS Enclosure plugin to explicitly add the following mime type mappings.
• audio/x-mpeg mp1 mp2 mp3 mpa mpega
  audio/x-mpegurl m3u
• Updated Send Email plugin and Moblog plugin to allow for SMTP authentication either via a JNDI context or a supplied username and password.
• Fixed double encoding in Entries Administration plugin and Trackback Auto-Discovery plugin.
• Updated Entries Administration plugin to use the title of the post as the entry name instead of the cryptic auto-generated ID scheme previously used. You can still override the entry name using the "Proposed name" field when adding a new blog entry.
• Updated Entries Administration plugin and Bookmarklet plugin to use titles of blog entries as the permalink name. If the title is not present, a GUID is generated.
• Updated Moblog plugin to use subject of e-mails as the permalink name. If the subject is not present, a GUID is generated.
• Updated Properties Administration plugin to allow user to choose among installed languages for localization of the administration console.
• Improved page for editing blog entries to display select list for language and country codes available on the current installation. NOTE: These are Java Virtual Machine (JVM)-specific and may differ between JVMs.

• Added auto-discovery link for Atom feed.

Special thanks to "Santa blojsom", David Czarnecki for keeping blojsom up-to-date with the latest and greatest features. I am working with several blog engines right now, and blojsom is exemplary in so many ways in terms of ease of maintenance and customization—it's totally kick-ass.

If you ever dine at "The House", you'll notice the following:

1. A separate glass for water and wine.
2. A unique place setting. Place settings change per dinner not per individual. You'll never see the same setting twice.
3. A personal set of salt and pepper shakers. Generally speaking, the food is prepared to stand on its own.

Spamusement - Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!

And they've even got an RSS feed!

who will know?

I've been having DNS lookup issues like some other OS X users. Basically, the first time I'd hit certain sites, the DNS lookup would fail. The next time I'd try to hit the site, the DNS lookup wouldn't fail and the site would load. This was extremely frustrating. I can't say when it started. Maybe it was around the update to 10.3.6, maybe it was sooner.

However, explicitly adding the name servers for my ISP into the Airport Extreme settings in addition to the name servers setting in System Preferences | Network seems to have made the issue go bye-bye.

Here's hoping the forthcoming 10.3.7 fixes this issue once and for all.

Run Like An Antelope - Phish

The blojsom localization effort has begun. I've already got people signed up for German and Korean. Want to be next?

Adding new languages to blojsom is straightforward. Once the web adminstration UI resource bundle is translated into another language, you add it to the blojsom installation, tell blojsom it's available, and each blog can choose from the installed localizations.

In case you missed the posts, we do pretty well in the internationalization department. Even with XML-RPC

Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

Here in Upstate NY, at times, we get a lot of snow. If you own any appreciable amount of driveway and do not own a truck with plow or have made nice nice with a plow company, you have a few choices.

1. Buy a snow shovel and you end up bemoaning and begrudging mother nature after every snowfall. It doesn't matter if it's light or heavy snow. You're not going to want to be out there at 6 AM listening to the sound of metal or plastic scraping against your driveway. Not to mention the toll it takes on your back.

1. Buy a snow blower. Buy a big ass snowblower!

BEHOLD! (Click image to see its full glory)

That's the snowblower that's now sitting in the garage. It can throw snow like a sonofabitch. Its gnarled blades will tear through icy deposits like T-Rex tore through the tender flesh of its kill. It's got a light to bring a little electric sunshine for those early morning or late night snow romping sessions.

... and its equipped with handwarmers! HANDWARMERS!

Domain transfer requests will be automatically approved in five days unless they are explicitly denied by the account owner. This is a change from current procedure, in which a domain's ownership and nameservers remain unchanged if there is no response to a transfer request. This could mean trouble for domain owners who don't closely manage their records. Domains with incorrect e-mail addresses and outdated administrative contact information are at particular risk, as the domain's WHOIS database information will be used to inform domain owners of transfer requests. A non-response becomes the equivalent of answering "yes" to a transfer request, according to the ICANN policy change.

A week ago I sent one of our new blojsom t-shirts to Rostislav Hristov of Asual. He designed the new default theme for blojsom and the Vampire theme. That's a trip. Enjoy the shirt ... it was the least I could do

blogo.cl - powered by blojsom.

A small blogs community in Chile. Awesome! 10 blogs on one installation. Hopefully it will grow.

Of course it'll work

Unfortunately the current release (1.2-b1) of the Apache XML-RPC library has some issues with handling international characters on the way in and on the way out. In short, reading and writing international characters is b0rk3d. I've patched the library for use with blojsom and if you click this link, you'll see it works just fine. I guess I can't prove I wrote that entry using the fantabulous ecto, but you'll have to take my word for it.

The patched version makes the following modifications.

1. UTF-8 is the global default.
2. Reading is done using an InputStreamReader using UTF-8.
3. XmlWriter uses UTF-8 and handles international characters properly.

You can download the patched version here.

1. Their code lives under the com.apple.blojsom package. Nice!
2. As far as changes to the core blojsom API, i.e. code living under the org.blojsom.* package (excluding plugins and extensions), from what I can tell, there were 6 lines of code changed (4 additions, 2 if statement changes). Any substantial development was done in the plugins. Maybe you didn't really take notice of the fact that my development has been in the plugins with almost no changes to the core API. I'm accepting this as initial validation that we've got a decent approach for allowing anyone to add functionality to blojsom.
3. 8 plugins. The ones that I'll focus in on are their inline editing plugin and the localizer plugin.
4. I need to check out the included template to adapt that for the theme switcher plugin.

Weblog Server is fully compatible with Safari RSS in Mac OS X Tiger and makes publishing a weblog as simple as checking a box in Server Admin preferences. Weblog Server is based on the popular open source project ‘Blojsom’ and is fully integrated into Tiger Server with an easy-to-use interface, Kerberos authentication support and LDAP integration. Weblog Server provides users with calendar-based navigation and customizable themes and users can post entries using the built in Web-based functionality or with weblog clients that support XML-RPC or the Atom API.

• The blog-base-url and blog-url are now optional parameters in /WEB-INF/(blog-id)/blog.properties. If either is not present, its value will be determined automatically.
• Added key to user's session when they are authenticated to their blog, BLOJSOM_USER_AUTHENTICATED.
• Added context variable, BLOJSOM_REQUESTED_FLAVOR which is a String that contains the requested flavor for the current request.

• Added support for the MovableType API XML-RPC methods.
• Fixed Atom API support with ecto.

• Added Bookmarklet plugin to allow you to post quickly to your blog from a popup window.
• Added All Entries plugin which makes available all of the entries in your blog to your templates.
• Added RSS Enclosure plugin which allows you to attach an RSS enclosure to an entry.
• Added Comment Moderation plugin allowing you to pre-approve comments before they are displayed.
• Added Trackback Moderation plugin allowing you to pre-approve trackbacks before they are displayed.
• Added administration plugin for Show Me More plugin to allow you to change settings for the Show Me More plugin from the web administration interface.
• Fixed issue with Markdown plugin where the execution string to run the Markdown plugin needed to be specified in web.xml as well as each blog's blog.properties file. The execution string now only needs to be specified in the web.xml as given in the setup instructions.
• Modified Abstract Visual Calendar plugin to determine days other entries were posted in the same month when requesting an individual entry.

• Fixed class in Asual theme asual.css for emoticons images. Changed to emoticons. This is the class the Emoticons plugin outputs in creating a link to the emoticon image.
• Updated web administration to add a View site link.
• Added Vampire theme.