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The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Wednesday, 25 September 2002

# 7:20 PM

catchup

It's not a good thing when updating your weblog becomes one of the things that you avoid doing because you're already ages behind on it. So I'm just going to throw out a bunch of random things that come to mind and we'll call it caught up, okay?

duct tape

This weekend I bought more stackable CD racks because I was out of space, only to discover that the Crate&Barrel and IKEA brands are incompatible. (I would link to pictures of each, but just try to find a specific product in either store's online catalog.) Duct tape and coat hanger wire to the rescue! I bent a coat hanger into an adapter between the two kinds of stacker tab, and duct-taped all the joints together so it wouldn't fall apart. It does want to tip over, but that's okay, it's up against the wall.

mad linkage

The reply brief for the petitioners in the Eldred v. Ashcroft case is well worth reading. Free the Mouse!

Speaking of which, BumperActive is a pretty cool thing in its own right. As are Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour and Junction City. I bet the tour would be right up the SF Mime Troupe's alley; perhaps I'll try to hook them up.

As long as I'm on the subject of politics, Anna has a fascinating discourse on Socialism and Peter Maass has a number of interesting comments on the Iraq juggernaut. And I think it's high time I added Avedon Carol to the links on the right.

It turns out that Lore Fitzgerald Sjöberg lives in Berkeley and patronizes Cafe Elodie, which is also one of my favorite downtown cafes. He also has a "mysterious letter" of advice for web-log-writers, which is worth reading. I am not sure I measure up. And finally, he proposes the glossing links concept, which is nifty, and I may decide to play with it. The link density on this page is arguably too high.

meta

Rael has a new version of Blosxom out. I'm not sure I will upgrade. I've already heavily customized this version, and he seems to be taking it in a different direction from me, anyway. (Can someone explain to me what RSS is for and why I should care, please?)

A more interesting possibility: an anonymous correspondent sent me a reference to a comment add-on for Blosxom. This is something I'd really like to have, except that it doesn't seem to work on that guy's site, which means I'd probably have to do a bunch of debugging, which I do not have time for right now.

Movable Type's standalone trackback utility is also interesting, although perhaps I should just switch to Movable Type...

babylonian mythology was never so bishonen

Utukki is being updated again.