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Blogger FAQ blog. Yuck, the official Blogger FAQ doesn’t help with all the tags that you need. Here is a more complete list. The one I’m looking for is $BlogArchiveFileName which you can use to put your archive list on the front page.

b2 > ReadMeYou can now post news from an email client! This is a great reason to use b2 or blogger pro or radioland. So, it looks like either I pay for the latter, or find a hoster with the former… But first you’ll have to edit b2config.php, filling the appropriate values for your POP3…

wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Wow, you can from a WAP phone send something to a blog. How cool. You need to hit the WAP URL wap.ubique.ch/wapblogger to get there from any wap phone. Can’t wait to try it. This plus audio blogging and the Radioland email…

b2 >b2 installation. Arrrgggh. Hours later and the problem is that the installation instructions for B2 are incomplete. You have to go into the mysql administrator and create a database called b2 and then it all works. Doesn’t mention this in the installation and you only get a cryptic “undefined database” message. Now, let’s try…

PHP Coder. OK, the last step is to get an IDE for PHP. Wow, amazing what is free. Just downloaded this tool which has syntax checker, etc. Now, I can single step and figure out what is going on.

b2 on a Windows server is not supported. Wow, still couldn’t get B2 to run, I had forgotten what configuration hell was with all the various INI files. Here are the quick notes from that author on hacking at c:\windows\php.ini… Too numerous are the threads about problems installing b2 on a Windows server, and too…

WinZip? Home Page. so of course DDG is actually in Unix Tar compressed format, so you have to get winzip in order to read it since Windows XP doesn’t know this. Arrghh. How many layers down do I have to go. Also, with dbg, he saves it with the file extension .tar[1] so of course…

DBG: Php Debugger. OK, I’ve gotten Mysql, PHP4 and B2 installed, but the b2install.php script is generating an error, so off to find a good debugging tool. Google led me to this for a step by step debugger. Wow, a single integrated suite would sure be great. And of course, it turns out this debugger…

Configuring PHP 3 and 4, MySQL 3.23, PHPMyAdmin, gd, Zend Optimizer for IIS 5.0 under Windows 2000. OK, to get to Cafe/B2, a great blogger according the blog Compendium, I had to learn how to install MySQL, a terrific free SQL database and also PHP4. Wow, this was pretty tricky to do just by reading…

802.11 Wireless Home Network Recommendations. The new 802.11a at 72Mbps is coming out. Quite a few folks have been asking me about it. Right now for most homes I’d recommend that you get a low cost 802.11b solution for right now. My buddy Tom Hatsukami was asking and wanted to buy NetGear, so here are…

Rich’s Page Rank falls. I’m so depressed! I used to have a Google PageRank score of 4, so I didn’t feel so bad that Ludwig had a rank of 5. Now, I find I’ve just dropped to 2. Whatever the heck that means. Most depressing is that sites that you would think have few links…

Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator. Wow I was browsing through Sourceforge and went through the most downloaded open projects. Found this incredible viewer of celestrial bodies. Amazing what people have built. It works great and I can’t wait to show it to the kids. Nice thing is that it is tied to various public databases…

Electronic Federal Tax Payment System. Ok, now that I’m just a self-employeed geek, filing all these tax payments is a big hassle. I’m just bad with paper. Amazingly, the government has an online tax payment system. I’m going to give it a try. Wish me luck!

ITX DIRECT GUIDE / ITX IR Information Company Data. This is a company we have been working with. It has a good Investor relations site. Here is where to get the current quote on Nasdaq Japan and enter 2725 as the stock code quote. Their shares outstanding are in Company information

ZDNet: Reviews. Ziff and Cnet have the two best sites.

Cell Phone Reviews. A list of places that do cell phone reviews.

Let’s Talk.com. OK, it’s time to buy a cell phone given that the fall is arriving and discounts are coming. Need one for Connie, Me and my parents. Here’s a place to start chopping

FrontPage? Online Support – SiteCrafters Internet Services. It’s been bothering me how to put a simple password on my hosted web site. It’s actually quite easy to password protect if you have IIS on a machine where you control the directory since it integrates with NT authentication. But, what if it is on a hosted…

The Dream Do-it-yourself PC. Hoops asked me to put together a dream machine for him. Here are the links for the smallest, but most functional machine I can imagine. Thanks to Tom’s Hardware” and C|Net for recommendations and Pricegrabber for the best place to buy things. If you’re interested, this machine is about the same…

BlackBerry Internet Edition. Connie uses a Blackberry Internet Edition by Aether. For some crazy reason, they don’t point to the home site of Aether, so you have to know the detailed information is at Blackberrybyaether.com. Nor do they tell you where the user interface is at No Comm Methods when all other queries on blackberry.net…

Patty Griffin is getting to be one of my favorite artists. She has a great bootleg CD set. You can also get these tracks on kazaa. She’s at the Paramount in Seattle on October 19 BTW.

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist. Ok, I’ve been studying this search engine stuff. John Ludwig mentioned he can see how people get to his page. Here is Google’s list of top queries. A fun fact list. Interesting that Windows 98 and IE6 are the main ways that things get accessed.

Google PageRank explained. I’ve never understood the page ranking algorithm that Google has. This does a good job of demystifying it.

StorageReview.com Headline NewsHere it is, the next set of drives to get. Wow, 3-year warranties and up to 250GB. Drool on! The MaxLine Plus II adds a third platter to the firm?s 7200 RPM design to reach capacities up to 250 GB. The Plus also incorporates an 8-meg cache. Both will be available in ATA-133…

StorageReview.com – Hardware, Benchmarks, Reviews, Reference, Research, and SurveysI’ve been pricing a do-it-yourself kit for Hoops. Here is a good place to get an overview on storage. I use Tom’s Hardware for just about everything else. The current leader is the Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB. I have one and it is like lightening. Another round…

Ideal Wine Cellar Temperature and Humidity After a great weekend at the Inn at Langley, I realized I’m storing my wine at the wrong temperature. Here’s a recommendation from a wine storage company… Wine should be held at a temperature which assures its proper rate of maturity. It is generally agreed that around 55?F is…

Philips CEO: LCD prices falling – Tech News – CNET.com Philips Electronics’ CEO Gerard Kleisterlee on Tuesday acknowledged that prices for liquid-crystal display screens were falling. “Apparently prices are going down. They are getting competitive again. I think we are reaching a point where undersupply is behind us,” Kleisterlee told Reuters at the sidelines of…

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