I’ve finally got around to making some genuine progress with the blog. After the new-fangled ‘permalink’ technology, I’ve begun to work on other such 90’s technologies as “archives” (almost complete, 3900+ old entries in the system), and “search“. Who knows what’s next, a calendar? (craaaazy).

On a more serious note, I don’t have to worry about packaging my rtedit anymore since it looks like in-place editing has independently arisen (I never got ranging working w/ text-mogrification to my satisfaction), so doing something useful w/ my tagging system and versioning is probably next on the list.

OmniGraffle’s actions are so the best thing ever.

Now if it would only export to HTML… (or at least to interactive PDF so people w/o OmniGraffle installed (or Macs!) could play along).

*UPDATE*: Omni is the shiz. v3.2 (just recently released) exports to HTML w/ image maps. WHOO!

I finally got around to moving the new site to the primary randomfoo.net domain. Old stuff is still accessible at: legacy.randomfoo.net.

Here’s the very simple code I put in my errorhandler to prevent linkrot:

if($_SERVER['REDIRECT_STATUS'] == '404') {
  require_once "HTTP.php";
  $url = 'http://legacy.randomfoo.net' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  $result = HTTP::head($url);
  if($result['response_code'] == 200) {
    header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
    header("Location: $url");
    header("Connection: close");
  }
}

Notice any problems? Let me know.

Banksy’s new project is AWESOME.

See his Current Exhibitions page for more information.

Well crap, no wonder I never put SXSW notes up before. Even just writing short summaries and related thoughts took forever. Plus I probably come off as an ass. Anyway, here they are. I considered trying to gather some more stuff on panels I missed, but honestly, as anyone’s who’s been can attest that you can’t take the panels too seriously. It’s always a tossup, and there’s just too much anwyay. I think I’ve already gone above and beyond the call of duty as far as work is concerned.

The best thing about this SXSW was getting me out of my recent funk (that Portal project was pretty soul-crushing). I had a lot of fun this year (better than last year?) and had a really good mix of hanging w/ old friends and meeting lots of new people (although I’ve been discovering that there were a whole buncha people there that I didn’t get a chance to say hi to. I’ll have to keep a better eye out next year… Also, I’ll try pacing myself better so I’m not as walking dead-like [waking up before 10AM is one of the double-edged things])

I’m going to disattach myself from the screen now.

I was only ultra-briefly passing through, so I’m depending on the intarweb to try to sift through the enormous amount of good stuff.

• O’Reilly ETECH05 Wiki – surprisingly uncomprehensive coverage – comparing the % of usefulness of sources requiring manual effort (wiki, trackback) vs automated (technorati, google searches) and you can see what a big difference there is. Of course, searching by the etech tags won’t work so well this time next year (until we get better temporal ranging)
• O’Reilly ETECH05 Aggregator
• Technorati Tag: etech
• del.icio.us/tag/etech

Notes:

• BloggingETech.com – webloginc’s coverage
• Day 1 notes PDFs from Tablet PC
• Jeff Clavier’s ETECH05 notes
• Phil Windley’s Technometria notes
• Voidstar’s notes
• justinsomnia’s notes – wow, nice layout!
• SimplyBlog notes, see also Master of 500 Hats
• Wanadoo ETECH notes
• Reemer.com notes
• Young Geek’s Illustrated Primer
• Warwick: all blogs from ETech category
• Etech05 – Wednesday Highlights – see links for rest of the notes
• Meg’s links
• All the Pages are My Days: eTech Archives
• ActionContents notes
• Andrew Wooster’s nextthing.org ETECH notes
• False Positives: More O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
• Many2Many: Folksonomies @ ETECH
• Cory’s notes on Life Hacks Live
• Cory’s notes on Social Robotics, Scmocial Robotics: Feral Robotics and Some Other Quacking, Shaking, Bubbling (what would the opposite of feral be?) Robots
• Cory’s notes on Rael Dornfest: Rules for Remixing

Direct (notes, slides):

• All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites – full text
• Sam Ruby’s ‘Just Use HTTP’ deck
• Dave McClure’s Vertical Search & The Long Tail BOF deck
• Tangible Computing deck and notes
• Matt’s Creative Commons outline

This morning, I found a small utility for OS X called Active Timer. It’s very basic, but will track the focused program on your computer in 5-second increments. I think there’s a lot of potential for ‘good habit training’ in tools like this (I can see a whole lot of metrics, visualization that might be generated from a smarter version of this. The important part of it is the automatic collection of this data. The next step is the integration with workflow…

It’s been on my todo list to get more out of Quicksilver for a while. One of the things that I’d never gotten to work to my satisfaction was the Clipboard functionality. I love having a clipboard history, but accessing the history through the primary interface was a pain, and when launching directly, it just ended up hanging there, which was uber-annoying.

Well, duh, there’s a Clipboard preference checkbox that will “Hide after pasting” which completely solves my problem. From the out, pasting from the last 10 items into an application is as simple as:

CMD-Space, CMD-L, [#]

Where # is a digit between 0 and 9. Groovy.