Asymptomatic

These spigots color the water using LEDs based on its temperature.

I moved the bulk of Red Alt to the Asymptomatic server last night because I got tired of that unmanaged server going down. The Asymptomatic server is managed, and so should get better attention when things go awry.

This also allows me to house a more permanent subversion repository (if that means anything to you) for all of the PHP development I do around here.

Did anyone else arrive at their PC today to find new email on their AOL account? Did you realize that you even had an AOL account?

I’ve been an AOL Instant Messenger user for a long time now. I’ve been using Trillian as my go-to Instant Messaging application for even longer. I think I knew that Trillian would check email, but I didn’t realize that AOL was going to be giving about email accounts ala GMail.

I was reading Jenn’s feed, where she pointed out that she was nominated for a Bloggy (Bloggies?) for “Best Tagline of a Weblog”. I decided to stop by and see who all got nominated, and now that I’ve seen it, I thought I would give you my impressions of the sites listed there.

It turns out that I am a bitter old coot and have nothing good to say about any of these sites. Well, there are a few exceptions. But mostly, I hate them because they were nominated and I was not. Maybe next year. I’ll add it to my 43 things.

Best Web Application for Weblogs

The category is kind of nebulous. Is it an application that you use to make a weblog? Or is it a tool that helps you create blog entries? Or maybe just a thing that you can use from your blog? Maybe it’s any of the above! Check out the nominees:

Flickr

Ah, the mac daddy of the photo repos. But is this really a blogging tool? Not really, unless you're using it as your sole photoblog site. You can store your blog's images there, but then all of the functionality that makes Flickr special is useless to you.

Del.icio.us

There are a few ways to get your browsed links onto your blog, and Del.icio.us is one. The thing that bugs me most about Del.icio.us is having to type the freaking URL. Also, even with the recent improvements, it's still not all that pretty. But service-wise, top-notch. I'm still not sure what exactly this has to do with blogging, though.

Blogger

Ah, finally a blogging tool. I've had the opportunity to try Blogger a bit more, and it's a pretty service for basic blog creation. Basic. And has it really changed over the years it's been around?

Site Meter

How the heck did this get on the list? Especially with Google Analytics and Mint laying around.

WordPress

Hmm.

My vote: Flickr. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but the API that provides external access to your photos has the potential to rock the socks off of every blogger, provided that some enterprising individual takes advantage of it for your platform.

Two Yahoo tools in this list? And a Yahoo bedfellow? Very interesting.

Oh, but there are more categories to dissect… Whee!

Order some custom-printed M&Ms in time for Valentine’s Day.