Andrew Bayer is Dreaming of ChinaGuilty! Guilty! Guilty!
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Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
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The XML-level redirect in the RSS feed here doesn't seem to be working all that well - it might work in Radio (and I think it works in NetNewsWire as well) but it doesn't work in AmphetaDesk...so I'm not gonna take any risks. Here's my new RSS feed - and click here to subscribe to the new feed in Radio. It's got exceprts currently - I'm trying to figure out how to have multiple feeds, so that I can have one with the full text of each post as well - I know I like being able to read an entire article or post in my aggregator...anyway... |
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Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
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If you're looking for new content here, let me point you to my current site: www.andrewbayer.comAll future updates will be there. I'll eventually get a nifty redirect going from here, but it's not ready quite yet... |
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Yeah, more babling about the migration. I've hacked the AmphetaDesk template to give me a link to post an entry in MT, more or less exactly the same as I've currently got in Radio...so that means I can, y'know, MIGRATE. I just need to figure out how to redirect people from the Radio page to the MT page, and how to properly ping blogs.salon.com AND change the URL in the rankings. Anyone know how to do any of that? =) |
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Tuesday, October 07, 2003 |
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And while I'm poking around the page - I keep running across these nifty RSS 2.0, Movable Type, XHTML, etc buttons in people's sidebars. Any idea where those come from? |
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BTW - question for other Salon blog refugees - what's the URL I need to ping to have my MT blog show up in the blogs.salon.com Recently Updated list? |
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The migration has begun - go take a look at www.andrewbayer.com. This post may be there, but I can guarantee that all 1572 other posts (!!!) I've made WILL be there. I'm still tweaking the look-and-feel - as of right now, I think I'm going with a relatively-stripped-down sidebar, and there's still some work to go on the archives, but it's there. I'm happy. And today's the day after the Sox win their third playoff series of my lifetime. Tomorrow, the series with the Yankees starts. Things could get very, very nuts around here... |
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Monday, October 06, 2003 |
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Oh my GOD. Oh my fucking GOD. Bases loaded, Derek Lowe in to relieve, 2 outs, bottom of the 9th, Sox up 4-3...and Derek throws a nasty, NASTY pitch to win the game. Sox win the series - 3-2. It's time to take out New York. |
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This baseball thing is nasty on me. Sox gave up another run - they're up by 1 with 2 outs in the bottom of the 8th. Normally, I'd be freaking out right now - the Sox bullpen was, shall we say, less than stellar this season. But righ tnow? I'm feeling fine. The pen will triumph. The Sox WILL win. |
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Oh my GOD. That was the nastiest collision I've ever seen in baseball - Damian Jackson, ranging way too far back into center field for a popup, slammed head-to-head with Johnny Damon, the Sox centerfielder. They both hit the ground hard...Jackson got up slowly, but got up. Damon stayed down - turned out to be unconscious for at least a few minutes. Ugly stuff. Damon's alright (ish) - concussion, but most likely nothing worse than that. But still...scary image. |
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By the way, I've got Movable Type going and I'm setting up my templates. Once that's set, I'll be changing various pointers (domains, the Salon address, etc...) to point to my new site. I'll consider mirroring posts from Radio to MT until I get myself set up with an aggregator I like... |
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Manny! |
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Still dazed from yesterday. My throat is torn up from screaming in the 8th and 9th innings, and my whole body just aches. It's a good ache, though. And with the Cubbies winning, I'd lay money on a Sox-Cubs World Series...which, of course, the Sox win in 7, at Fenway. More later today - gotta work now. |
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Sunday, October 05, 2003 |
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Well, that was pretty freakin' incredible. I was at the Sox game, and it was...well, yeah. Pretty freakin' incredible. I'm a little dazed right now - I'll try to write about it tomorrow, when I'm a bit more conscious... |
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Saturday, October 04, 2003 |
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Ok, Trot is now Kirk Gibson II, baby. This city is going to WORSHIP him now. It's really something to watch the faces of the crowd as the homer goes out - you can see them all standing, and their eyes going up 'til they realize what just happened...damn. Beautiful thing. |
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FUCK YEAH! TROT GOES DEEP! SOX WIN! SOX WIN! |
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Well, the bottom of the 10th isn't really doing much for me so far. Damon...ok, he got out, but damn if I remember how. Nomar got lucky and got on first. Mueller poped out...and now it's Manny with 2 outs. If he blows this, he's in deep in this town...and Nomar steals 2nd. That's good...and then they walk Manny, Ortiz bloops to short. Bleh. Nice top of the 11th - Scott Williamson finally demonstrates why I've been saying he was a great, great pickup. And now there's a man on 1st with Trot "Underappreciated Superstar This Year" Nixon coming to the plate...this could be special... |
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Sox got out of the top of the 10th - Timlin has pitched 3 innings, faced 9 batters, got 9 guys out. Not bad. But this can't last forever...you just KNOW the A's are going to score eventually... Called Dad between innings. This is just so pathetic to watch - the bashingest team in the HISTORY of baseball (no joke - highest slugging percentage of any team EVER) and they just fall apart here. I don't buy any crap that you need to play different baseball in the playoffs - the Sox got 6 runs on 10 hits in 3 1/3 innings off the A's starter tonight, Ted Lilly, at Fenway earlier this year, and it's not like Lilly is some magically different pitcher or some shit. Don't work that way. This team has just fallen off a cliff with the bat - and I have no idea why. |
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My man Jason Varitek (I've got his t-shirt) gets a leadoff bloop single into center. They put in Adrian Brown as a pinch-hitter - makes sense. Varitek's fast for a catcher, but that's not exactly saying much...now it's Gabe Kapler. Gotta think Brown's running here. No, check that - Kapler's gonna bunt. Not that Kapler really knows how to bunt, obviously, but hey...ok, he just bungled two bunt attempts. Have him swing... And he does swing - right into a freakin' double play. Grrreat. Now we lose the lead runner, which also means we lost our GOOD hitting catcher. Fuck. And Todd Walker pinch-pops-up to short. Extra-innings. Could this suck much more? |
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No Pedro, but Timlin just threw another 1-2-3 inning. Bottom of the 9th, tied 1-1, you're at home...I'm expecting a freakin' run here, guys. |
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This is it, Manny. The crowd is with you. Damn, man, they're chanting Manny - 33,000 people chanting your name. You hit a double, and Pedro comes in and ends the game. That's all it takes. You're the second best hitter in baseball. You can do it. This game, by the way, has been really freakin' weird. 4 errors by the As - including 3 on 3 consecutive at-bats. A questionable lack-of-obstruction call against the As. A bizarre no-pitch call that gave Nomar a second chance to get on base. This has just been STRANGE. Aw, hell. Manny struck out. And now the boos are starting to come out... Right, it's Ortiz-time...and they walk him to get to Kevin Millar, who'll probably get out easily against the nasty rightie Chad Bradford. But there's a "cowboy up" chant whipping around the stadium - I'm not entirely sure where the bit came from, but it's associated with Millar now. That, and the Rally Karoke Guy, which is Kevin Millar lip syncing "Born In The USA" back in college, was shown on the big screen....c'mon, Kevin. You'll be loved like you've never imagined if you can get a hit here...and he strikes out. God DAMN. Well, we'll see if Pedro comes in for the 9th. Normally, I'd say that means we win, no question - I was there for Game 5, ALDS 1999, when Pedro came out of the pen with a destroyed back and threw 6 innings of no-hit relief, starting with no more than an 85 mile an hour fastball, ane dning with a 95 mph strikeout. But the offense was on then - 12 runs total, if I'm remembering correctly. This offense is just hosed right now. Don't know why, but they're just lousy... More to come, I'm sure. |
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Alright, we're done for the day. There's a party type thing a little way from here, and then dinner at 7:30. I'm seriously considering not going to either - I've liked meeting these people, but I'm really f'n tired, and I've got either another day of this or the Red Sox tomorrow, depending on tonight's game...which I'd kind of like to watch, too. So yeah. I think I'm headin' home. And remember, tomorrow's sessions are free - info at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon. |
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OK, somebody was just now attacking the campaign bloggers for not helping each other. Or something. WTF? And then Dave started clapping. This is all a little collective idealist sounding, I think. And kind of delusional. Howard Dean should be writing his weblog every day? They're kind of busy, y'know. Doesn't contact with the CAMPAIGN mean anything? Jesus. I can't quite figure out what I'm trying to say, but I really want to throw a chair at Dave right now. |
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Holy crap! The Marlins are 3 outs away from eliminating the Giants! Damn! And the Cubs are up 2-1 on the Braves... Of course, the Sox are still down 0-2, pending tonight's game, so even if the Cubs make it all the way, I'll be depressed as hell if the Sox lose... |
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Oh god. I'm having real problems NOT making fun of Bob Graham's official blogger - he's a kid, wirh bright red hair, a bright red face, and a Carville-looking vest/tie/shirt outfit. I don't know why it's making me think Carville, but it is. I'll put a pic here once Dan Bricklin has one up. BTW, Bricklin's photologging of the conference is nifty and fun. I show up over people's shoulders a few times - I'm on the right side of the hall (if you're sitting in it, facing the stage), about half way up, along the wall. I've got bad hair, a blue Cisco shirt on over a Channel Zero t-shirt (which also happens to be the origin of Rob of Emphasis Added's subtitle, "Make Them Listen - Make Them Understand". I've got glasses and a laptop. Anyway...back to the conference... |
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w00t! We're back up at blogs.salon.com! 'bout TIME! I'm still going to very seriously look into getting off Radio, though. As soon as some domain registrations kick in, I'll be setting up a Movable Type blog (probably also titled Andrew Bayer is Dreaming of China at least for now) with the same templates, etc...and I'm going to hack AmphetaDesk to let me post to MT like I can currently post to Radio. Then I get rid of Radio, once I get referral javascript on every page HERE to point to the MT equivalent...ah, hacking. Should be fun. Anyway... |
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Oh, wow, the pretension's got out of control here. Now someone's saying that essay writing in the Enlightenment was blogging. Or something. Same guy tried to deny we're elites - uh, I'm willing to bet that the average income in this room is well over 50k annual. THAT is elite by even just an American definition, let alone a global definition. Jesus Christ. |
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Hey! That's Esther Dyson sitting 10 feet from me, being all non-kool-aid about blogs, rejecting the party line that blogs are The Greatest Shit Ever. Blogs aren't going to change the world like Dave Winer, Chris Lydon, and the rest of the diehards believe - they're just another medium. They're definitely not as revolutionary as radio - and radio hasn't fed the hungry, now, has it? But hey, I'm a cynic. |
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Back in the room from lunch, still got no Salon blogs. Scott Rosenberg, Salon's editor and fellow blogger-traveler, is talking to Dave Winer right now, but I don't think he's talking about Dave's company's shoddy service right now, for some reason. Ah well. =) |
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Crap! I think someone just got a picture of me yawning! I'm gonna look bad! I need to get an annotation put on the picture explaining that I've slept a grand total of 16 hours in the last three nights and am overheated...but no, I'm gonna look like I'm not paying attention. Damn. Ah well. |
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As bad as this sounds, I hope that, if the Sox are going to lose today or tomorrow, that they lose today...I'd rather not be at the game where they get eliminated from the playoffs. That, and then I could be here at BloggerCon for Day 2, but I don't think that's as much the reason I'm feeling that way... |
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It's a little pointless for me to post this, since you can't actually *see* it, but hey...there's a BloggerCon IRC channel at Freenode, #bloggercon. There's also a log of the channel here. Oh, and a video feed of the conference here. |
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Wow. Wrapping up our first break right now - that was amazing. I met and talked to - Jay McCarthy of Makeoutcity, Susan Mernit of Navigating the Info Jungle (who I'll be having dinner with tonight - though I admit, I chose her dinner group because they're having Indian), Ben Adida of Benlog, Cameron Barrett of Clark '04's official blog (who's a great guy, at least on first impression - he's going to put me in touch with the Clark campaign's official techies - they actually can use people with my data munging Perl skills!), and Scott Rosenberg, Fearless Leader of Salon blogs. I'm both in my element and totally outclassed. This is GREAT. Susan was commenting on the demographic makeup of the audience here today - it's profoundly early middle-aged white guys. The blogosphere is NOT near as old-white-male as this room is, to say the least. I think this is because to be here today, you've had to pay to fly here and then pay to get in, unless you're either local and lucky (like me) or a panelist. You're going to get a well-off audience no matter what, with those conditions... |
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There's a video camera recording everything, a sound guy, a bunch of web-cams, digital cameras, and what Warren Ellis refers to as futurephones. Oh, and Chris Lydon is sitting five feet from me with a mic of his own. This is strange - Ed Cone quipped that this is going to be the ultimate version of Rashomon - we'll have dozens of perspectives on the same events. We'll have all of us who are writing, all of us who are documenting with video, cameras, audio...it's kind of a meta-event, on some level. Dave, by the way, is so obviously having the time of his life here. He's, well, a little pretentious, to say the least - but what do you expect? It's Dave freakin' Winer. The guy has kind of earned the right to be pretentious...not saying that I agree with everything he says (his blogger-puppet-as-Congressional-candidate last year was just goofy, for example), but he's got quite the track record. Radio is, without question, the most featureful blog app I've found. Its implementation, though, does kind of suck hard at times...I'm still pissed about the memory leak from hell that keeps showing up with Radio (I've had it open for about two hours now, and it's gone from an initial 20mb or so to 62mb of memory, and that's actually *low* by its standards...it almost always gets up to 150mb or so before I kill the thing...), the server issues (always a risk when you're hosted and admined by a company that doesn't have 24/7 support), and its (quite frankly) craptastic scripting language...which is why I'm probably switching to Movable Type. But anyway. Dave's arrogant and he has blinders on when it comes to his software and his belief in the power and future of blogs...but he's given us a lot. Anyway. I'm distracted, so I'm gonna end this. Still waiting for one domain name to transfer to my new host, and for another new one to get registered...once those are there, I'll probably start looking into what's involved in migrating my Radio backlog into MT, hacking my templates from Radio to MT, etc...and then moving dreamingofchina.com from redirecting to blogs.salon.com/0001033/ to, instead, hosting on my new host. More to come... |
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More accurately, he said "If Dick Cheney did it [outted Valerie Plame], fire Dick Cheney." But I just want to make sure to get that meme out there as quickly as possible. heh. |
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As I multi-task between listening to Josh and Glenn and fiddling with Movable Type, I think I've figured out (approximately) how to do what I want to do with AmphetaDesk and Movable Type. AmphetaDesk has templates that are used when it's showing news items - it *should* be possible to inject a link in there that'll post to MT's cgi with the news item's title and content, a la Radio. With a little tweaking on the server side of MT, I should be able to customize it to make the posted news items look the way I want them to. Niiiice. I don't quite get why this hasn't been done before... |
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(ok, the title is a little exaggerated, but it amuses me.) Glenn Reynolds is spinning madly right now, trying to cover his ass for covering the Whtie House's ass on the Plame Affair by not writing almost anything about it - he's sitting two chairs from Josh Marshall, who's almost taunting him...Glenn was saying "I don't understand this!" Josh responds "I don't understand -" and Glenn interrupts "See? No one understands!" Josh retorts "No, I don't understand how you DON'T understand it." Good times, good times. The whole journalism and weblogs panel is decaying (happily) into a Plame discussion. Glenn Reynolds, the leading rightist (he's not libertarian, he's a freakin' rightist and you know it) blogger-journalist, opposite Josh Marshall, the leading left-leaning blogger-journalist (and maybe my favorite writer in the world these days). I am in heaven. Kick ASS, Josh! This is getting even more fun - Ed Cone is holding Glenn's feet to the fire for calling opponents of the war traitors - specifically, quoting Andrew Sullivan, accusing the "intelligentsia" of being a fifth column. I'm trying to dig up more Reynolds-calls-the-opposition-traitors links now... |
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We've already had a couple fun moments - Dave referenced Doc Searls' saying that the NY Times is not a weblog, it's a newspaper - to which Len Apcar, editor of nytimes.com, retorted that it's a WHOLE lot more than just that in a rather humourous way. Ok, maybe you had to be here, but hey...I'm here, and you're not. So there. Nah-nah-nah-nah. =) It's fun looking around the room and seeing how many people are actively blogging (through Radio, quite often) as Dave talks. He's said that EVERYTHING that's said in this room today is officialy on the record, so this should get very, very fun. |
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