I just reconfigured my Movable Type blog to use cruft-free URLs. The basic premise is to clean up your URL scheme by removing non-essential information, thus ensuring that your links will live on in the future as you evolve with different web publishing tools and technologies. In my case, I also wanted to change from my old method of daily archives (one file per calendar day, including one or more posts) to individual archives (one post per file). Among other benefits, this should help with search ability of the site because the entry post will be the same as the…
Murphy’s Law was in full bloom recently when our home PC’s hard drive started to fail and my server’s drive just locked up cold one day. Thus began the great computer fix-up of 2003 for the Cantoni household. Step One: New hard drive storage for the server.
I've been meaning to do more playing with Bluetooth capabilities of my Palm Tungsten T3 (other than just connecting to another Palm device), so I finally bought a Belkin F8T001 USB Bluetooth adapter (available on Buy.com for about $40 with free shipping). Installing the Belkin software on my Win2000 system was straightforward, as was pairing my device with the desktop. What was not easy to figure out what sharing the internet connection so I can run e-mail and web browser on the Tungsten. The Belkin software wizard led me to turn on Internet Connection Sharing within Windows, but it gave…
Google recently launched a beta of the Google Deskbar which “enables you to search with Google from any application without lifting your fingers from the keyboard.” This type of utility is quite useful and allows you to quickly do a search without first bringing up a browser window. In fact, there is already an excellent tool that does this: Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar. Both apps install into the desktop taskbar, providing a field for search entry. When not in use, Dave’s will show the full date/time while Google shows a small Google logo. Dave’s can be customized with XML files…
From Gizmodo, I learned about Reiter’s Camera Phone Report which is a weblog dedicated to wireless digital photography. Among his recent posts is one about companies forcing handset vendors to remove cameras in phones due to security concerns.