It’s crazy out here.
We’ve gone out for lunch and to pick up a few items for the house, specifically paint for Abby’s room. All of our tasks are common - we’d be doing it anyway no matter what time of year it was. But everyone else out here is nuts.
I was out shopping for a UPS the other day after the power went out at home and I encountered a strange thing while pricing at Circuit City.
There were several tents erected outside the from door of the Circuit City store. What the heck?
It’s pretty late, but I’m riled about Thunderbird. There are oh, so many annoyances that I just can’t take it any more. I’m about ready to try anything.
I am tired of Thunderbird marking just anything that comes in as spam. The “adaptive filters” are a joke. I reset the filters, and in three days it’s marking everything as spam. It can’t tell the difference between incoming mail from mailing lists that I’m on and the ones that look like they’re from a mailing list but are just an embedded gif advertising Vi4gr4.
Greetings, authors of blog-posting desktop clients! This post is for you!
Actually, this post is about you. I’ve spent the past four hours trying to implement Atom Publishing Protocol. Actually, it’s been days longer than that as I’ve been implementing and re-implementing accoring to the various documentation I’ve found online, but I’ve spent the past four hours just trying to get Ecto to work with my APP server code, and now I’m flat-out angry. It’s not just Ecto, and I’m not sure that I should only blame the Atom architects either, so let me explain my issues.
I’m trying to implement a lot of the Atom Publishing Protocol as a server. I want to be able to list blog entries, update them, and create new ones. I have written my Atom implementation to the most recent spec, and when I access the entrypoints using raw Telnet and HTTP headers over port 80, I get the appropriate responses back from my server according to the spec.
This seems great, but this is not the end of the battle – The so-called “Atom clients” I’ve been able to find just don’t seem to support the spec.
It seems like I haven’t written anything in an eon, and you might think I’ve finally grown tired of the tedium of maintaining this blog (perhaps I have, when it’s so easy to characterize as such?), but no, I’ve actually been quite busy.
Yesterday was my last day working for Kruse. I had been working there for more than 10 years, and while I’ve appreciated the time I’ve spent there which was entirely positive, it was time for me to move on. I spent the latter half of the week cleaning out my office (all of which is currently still all in my car, so I know what I’m doing today) and otherwise finalizing details of my departure.