The link of the day is Postsecret.
Extremely popular at Technorati, I had never heard of it, and it’s pretty interesting. What is it, you ask? From the site itself:
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
And they put up the pictures of said postcards.
Newsforge has a pretty good review of Flock up.
I’ve downloaded the Linux client, and while stable, I haven’t really used enough of it to comment yet. It brings together a number of tools I use while browsing, including Flickr and blogging. Delicious bookmarks are definitely something I want to get into a lot more, especially since I share so many computers.
If you’re into Web 2.0 / social networking / insert buzzword here, and want to see read a review of a browser for Web 2.0, hit the link above.
I’ve received a number of questions over the years of where the name “Silwenae” came from. It was randomly generated in Everquest – the second name I chose within EQ. It was unique enough that I stuck with it, including registering 3 domains. (And for the record, it’s pronounced sill-win-ay).
CmdrTaco, co-founder of , has written an op-ed piece on Slashdot on how Blizzard made him change his name due to the use of “Cmdr”, a title, in his World of Warcraft name, and how it’s affected him.
Online persona’s are interesting – there is a lack of accountability in using a handle for your pixels. There’s safety in anonymity. It wasn’t until recently I even put my real name on my blog – not out of safety, but out of privacy. (Though smart interweb people just look at Internic to see who owns a domain, and I’ve never faked that). I grew up on BBS’s, and using popular characters from books I liked – and I see that trend every day online (how many Drizzt’s did you see back in the EQ days?)
What does an online handle mean to you?
I continue to be impressed with Spam Karma 2 for WordPress since I installed in a couple weeks ago.
I was getting about 50 spam comments a day in the blog, and Spam Karma 2 has cut that down to nothing. Zero. Zilch. I think I’ve had to moderate 3 comments so far it wasn’t sure of (which were spam), but that’s nothing compared to the daily maintenance hell I used to go through in deleting comments.
Kudos to the developers.
Upgraded to the latest and greatest K2 theme – and now comes with the Vader style. Back to a black theme, yay!
Even better, comes with AJAX commenting. Sweet.
Over the last month or so since I migrated Silwenae.com over to [Site5][1] for hosting, and transferred the silwenae.com content to [Apatheia.org][2] I’ve been working on the image module in [Drupal][3] as it stopped working during the site migration.
I’ve been through the code, I’ve re-installed the module, and nothing has worked. I decided to tackle it this weekend, with mixed results.
I upgraded Apatheia.org’s Druapl installation from 4.5.5 to 4.6.3 so it was running the latest version. (No problems there).
I downloaded the image.module for 4.6 and installed it. (No problems there).
In reviewing the images in the website, the root web directory of apatheia.org does not have an images directory. Looking at my backup of silwenae.com, it had an images directory with all the images stored in it, including all the re-sized images that the image.module made. Where did they go?
To further complicate things, when you look at the images stored on Apatheia.org, take a look at the Majordomo story on the frontpage. According to the image properties, it’s at: http://www.apatheia.org/images/majordomo2-312_800x600.jpg , but there is no images directory when I ssh in to the website, or FTP in. Is Drupal doing something via mod_rewrite? Per one post on the forums, I turned clean URLs on, but it didn’t fix my image upload problem.
In the image.module settings, I changed from using ImageMagick to GD, and I could now upload a picture, though the thumbnail wouldn’t store, and it errored out upon submitting.
I did a chmod on the tmp directory, and pointed the settings a few different ways at the current tmp directory with mixed results. I re-created an images directory.
You can now upload images, with some caveats:
Upon selecting an image to upload and hitting preview, you see the image with the following error at the top of the screen:
warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/apatheia/public_html/modules/image/image.module on line 623.
Hitting submit off this preview results in an error page with the errors:
`warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/apatheia/public_html/modules/image/image.module on line 623.
warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/apatheia/public_html/includes/common.inc:348) in /home/apatheia/public_html/includes/common.inc on line 159.` However, then going back to Apatheia.org (use a bookmark or something) you’ll see the image uploaded just fine. So it’s working – it spits out errors, but it’s working. The image properties still show in apatheia.org/images – _but there are no files in that directory_! I’d love to know where they are. The image.module in Drupal is notoriously buggy – the number of threads in the forums looking for help with the module are staggering. There aren’t a lot of good alternatives. Gallery2 integration exists, but I don’t think it’s quite what I’m looking for. It’s frustrating as the functionality that was there in 4.5 was perfect – it was great for the users of the site, the re-sizing functionality was very cool. My only beef with it then was it was a little difficult to post stories around the pictures (though you could bump pictures up to the front page) but this one has me beat. [1]: http://www.site5.com [2]: http://www.apatheia.org [3]: http://www.drupal.org
Why, oh why, can Internet Explorer not conform to web standards?
I threw up a placeholder on Silwenae.com using Drupal, and put a transparent PNG as the header graphic.
Looks awesome in Firefox, but IE you see the background.
I hate IE. I don’t want to use a GIF due to patent issues, and JPEGs can’t handle transparency.
Grr.
Silwenae.com 5.0 is up, and a history of it is coming soon.
Silwenae.com is 100% back to normal. All the data, links and information have been migrated to Apatheia.org. My last to-do is to update the header on the forums, but other than that, Fazin did an awesome job.
Now it’s time to start thinking about the new silwenae.com.
If I don’t have time to update my blog, I’ll have to figure out how to find time for web development again!
It’s been way too long since I’ve blogged, once you get off the habit, it’s easy to do that. Let’s see what we can do about that.
Oxygenz.net was shut down this weekend due to a faulty PHP script. Based on the draconian rules set up by that webhost, Fazin and I decided to switch webhosts (again), this time to Site5.com. (Silwenae.org is proudly hosted on Nearlyfreespeech.net, as a backup to everything else.)
Fazin spent all night Sunday transferring the data back up, and we’ve moved all the content from Silwenae.com to Apatheia.org which Fazin had registered a few months ago and had just been pointing at Silwenae.com.
The data’s up, including the databases, but we have some bug hunting ahead of us as you can’t log in to the Drupal site or into the forums.
All of the Apatheia guild stuff will be moving to:
More to come soon.