Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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May hold off on changing over to something like Drupal or WordPress until this is sorted out. From Netcraft: PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits, Many popular PHP-based blogging, wiki and content management programs can be exploited through a security hole in the way PHP programs handle XML commands. The flaw allows an attacker…
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Tinkering around with the Movable Type stylesheets and templates in MT2.6x to try and get things just how I want them. But it has been a bit of an exercise in futility. They’ll look fine in Firefox but not in IE (or vice-versa). So I’m wondering about scrapping the whole MT 2.6 set up and…
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Min Jung Kim has put together a blogging life cycle. She writes, Having blogged in one form or fashion for the last 6 years or so (not including personal journals that I’ve written in, on paper even, with crayon even, since I was six years old), allow me to personally provide you with a rundown…
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Wired News: The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth – On, among other things, the BBC’s new backend for accessing their content – BBC Backstage. Wired News: Eggheads Invent Tele-Petting – Wow, haptic interfaces that solve the HCI problem (that’s Human-Chicken Interface).
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From the NZ Herald a locally designed computer keyboard for use by “stroke victims, people with arthritis or just about anyone whose ability to physically cope with an ordinary keyboard was impaired.” See: The New Zealand Herald: Keyboard opens brave new world.
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For your Mac or PC available from Afterglow: Home of Icon Designer & Illustrator Cian Walsh. Greenstone and Tomato Sauce icons are great. Preview here.
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Andrew Jones briefly answers a question about putting photos into your blog at : Mac, blog and photos. Both the suggestions cater for simple blogging – Blogger + Flickr or Typepad. (Flickr can be used with other blogging systems too – see here for the list). Now that works probably for a lot of people…
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Lawrence Lessig’s recent blog post never again links in nicely with the discussion Tim highlighted at SanBlogue: When copyright fails. In it Lessig comments on the restrictive nature of “Publication Agreements” and the loss of author’s copyright. His slant is that he will now “not agree to publish in any academic journal that does not…
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Tim’s post here points out that sharing copyright with journal publishers does come with strings attached – as in you might not be able to submit it to an electronic repository (as hypothesised here a day or so ago). See: SansBlogue : When copyright fails… Might be interesting to see what the definition of a…