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My multi-talented friend Joey deVilla isn't just a programmer, street accordion player, party animal, entertaining and informative weblogger, and all-around great guy...he's also a damn funny stand-up comedian! He's got an unfortunate stage name which he hates -- "Smokin' Joe deVilla". I say he's stuck with it.

It's interesting to compare Kevin Burton's and Dave Winer's accounts of their meeting the other night. Kevin was clearly upset by the encounter, while Dave only mentions it in an off-hand way. You wouldn't know what he was talking about without reading Kevin's post.

Coderman also has some thoughts on this.

Update: I recieved the following from Dave Winer:

I didn't respond to Burton, my post wasn't about him. It was about love. It's hard for people to understand that I suppose, that creativity is not an "attack" as you put it. Best wishes, Dave

So there you have it. Perhaps I read too much into Dave's post.

Research Holds Hope for Genitally Challenged Men.

The potential for future GWAR concerts is staggering.

This is a really cool idea: BookCrossing. It's like GeoCaching but for books. There are currently over 100 books released in Minneapolis, and even more in Duluth, where I'll be vacationing later this month. Maybe I'll try to find one while I'm there. Via GiftWiki via Technomanifestos. Technomanifestos looks like a cool site, I'll have to start reading it.

I figured out how Rael creates his +/- indicator for TrackBacks. The standalone trackback CGI creates a serialized Perl data structure file for each weblog entry in its data directory. Just check for the existence of that file, and presto. I'm finding I really need this piece of information, otherwise trackback is almost useless because you can't tell if anyone has actually tracked back to you.

In other Blosxom news, version 0+5i has been released. I'm excited about the subdirectory categorization feature. At first I thought this was lame and that I wouldn't need it, but now I realize that a simple categorization scheme would be great for letting me orgainize data. For example, I'll have a books/to_read category and a books/reviews_category. and maybe even a books/currently_reading. Since each of these can export XML, I can probably do some sweet stuff, like create a "currently reading" sidebar which updates itself automatically.

This weekend I will probably integrate my autoformatting hacks (plus some improvements) into 0+5i. I'll call that 2+5i. Hopefully it will be suffiently mature for Rael to include the code in version 0+6i. Then I won't have to keep maintatining my own version of the software.