Scripting News

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 01:16:20 GMT

Red Herring: Wiki Wars.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:55:47 GMT

The Paypal outage is cleared so we can resume fund-raising for BloggerCon III. If you've been waiting to make your contribution, you can now go ahead, and please do. ";->"

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:55:52 GMT

I've installed Google Desktop Search.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:55:02 GMT

The excitement about Google Desktop Search is giving way to the reality. Their choice of file formats they will index is weird. And I don't care what everyone else uses, most of my valuable content is in the CMS I use to edit my blog, and they don't index that, and I doubt if they ever will. An open architecture desktop search app is a requirement. I must be able to write a plug-in that teaches it how to index formats it doesn't understand.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:37:44 GMT

Erik Speckman: "Google desktop search is a disappointment."

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:38:23 GMT

Erik makes a good point. It only indexes Microsoft mail data. I would like it to index my object databases, that's where all my content is. This could all be solved if they had a driver architecture that allowed us to teach it how to index file formats they don't understand. Now that we're on the desktop this becomes possible, as does a richer API. Google's concern for server bandwidth goes away when the software is running on my desktop.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:25:26 GMT

I tried a search for Nigeria. Yup it indexes the spam too.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:55:42 GMT

Kottke: "But then there's the privacy issues."

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:18:06 GMT

Very cool. It's a Fractional Horsepower HTTP Server, running on port 4664. This is the only way to go. It's conceivable they could have done it as an ActiveX component, but that would have been a huge mistake. You can use it with any browser. Right on. The fact that it's only available for Windows XP and 2000 is going to be a problem with Mac users, of course. Having waited so long, I'm very excited to be using this.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:03:21 GMT

Holy shit this thing is amazing. I just did a search on Global Google for Desktop Web Server, and at the top of the screen my eye caught a special reference to Scripting News. Wow, my subconscious said, I get a lot of rank for that. Bzzzt. Wrong. It included a result from my local hard disk and one from an email in Outlook Express. Okay, we're in another age here folks. The Web just got a major upgrade. Wow. The crazy thing is, so did my desktop. ";->"

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:25:28 GMT

Other reviews: John Battelle, Danny Sullivan, BBC.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:11:38 GMT

Three DaveNet pieces anticipating this technology.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:15:25 GMT

Special audio blog post on GDS, what it means, how exciting it is, etc.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:01:18 GMT

Moral of the story: don't record an audio blog post while Google is indexing your hard disk. Oy. Basically that post is useless. File this as a bug report. A microphone is an important input device.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:14:22 GMT

Summary: Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing!

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:23:02 GMT

The Age covers podcasting. "A tidal wave of sound for surfers."

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:19:36 GMT

Lenn Pryor is hosting a Podcasting session at O'Reilly's Mac OS X conference, in Santa Clara on October 28.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:51:39 GMT

Here's what the new ads in the Engadget feed look like in my aggregator. At first I barely noticed them, then they looked like big glitches, but now that I see them in every post and I am starting to think about unsubbing. That says a lot, because it's become one of my favorite feeds. I honestly don't see why they need ads in their feed, because the feed itself is an ad for Engadget. Every time I read an item there's a (let's say) three percent chance I'll link to it and deliver several hundred readers. There's got to be a better way to pay for the feed.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:51:06 GMT

The obvious reason Lynne Cheney is upset that Kerry talked about their gay daughter in last night's debate is that their love for their daughter contradicts the Republican policy of limiting the rights of gay people. They'e willing to sacrifice their integrity for the votes of some bad people (following Ms Cheney's judgement re Kerry). The problem is with the Cheney philosophy, not Kerry. They have a gay daughter. That's a known fact. They also contribute to the oppression of gay people. That's the problem.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:21:01 GMT

Dick Cheney is the first veep since Nixon whose name is Dick.

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:12:16 GMT

Dick Cheney: "Fuck yourself."

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:05:48 GMT

Two years ago: "Now of course there are non-hierarchic links, that accounts for serendipity or daydreaming, but when you want to get a job done, hierarchies do the hard work of organizing for quick retrieval."

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:29:14 GMT

Sounds like Adam is going to Starbucks to upload the next DSC.