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Posted by on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 in - leave a comment
The system that powers this weblog was recently upgraded with a new open-source weblog platform (because the world needed one more). What separates this weblog system from all of the others? The clever name: Blörg. • In the process of the upgrade, I’ve retired the randomly rotating …
Halloween Highlight
Posted by on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 in - 7 comments
The first trick-or-treat-er that came to our house this Halloween had a lit cigarette. I kid you not. That said, it still beats the first year at this house, when I had a handful of Unicef money stolen.
Today in (My) History
Posted by on Friday, November 19, 2004 in - 1 comment
Inspired by Peter Rukavina’s post in which he looks through the history of his weblog on November 19th, I would like to do the same: • November 19, 2003 • Like Peter, I was celebrating the launch my friend and co-work, Daniel Burka’s weblog Delta Tango Bravo. My witty post title …
Acts of Volition gets Slashdotted, again
Posted by on Sunday, February 8, 2004 in - 1 comment
Getting slashdotted is so 2003. It was cool the first time, but now it’s just a hassle! • The article about the Gnome Linux desktop was the victim this time. We’ll be forward to a static version of the article for a while to lighten the load on the servers. Bear with us in the meantime …
Other Links on the side bar
Posted by on Friday, December 12, 2003 in
A new feature on Acts of Volition: Other Links. It’s a running list of links and notes that didn’t warrant a full post, but were worth sharing. It’s basically a place for links that I previously would have sent via instant messaging to a few friends. The idea is stolen from Jason Kottke’s …
Acts of Volition gets Slashdotted!
Posted by on Thursday, October 23, 2003 in - 9 comments
I have reached uber-geek nirvana: our Branding Mozilla article has been Slashdotted.
Wayward Comments
Posted by on Thursday, July 31, 2003 in - 10 comments
If you’ve noticed some odd reader comments here on Acts of Volition in the last little while, rest assured that we’re as confused as you are. • Starting about a month ago, comments started showing up here on Acts of Volition on old posts, where the were no other comments, or the conversations …
The ultimate Weblogging system?
Posted by on Friday, May 2, 2003 in - 24 comments
User interface critic and man-about-New Zealand, Matthew Thomas has outlined his view of the The ultimate Weblogging system. We’ve run our system against his checklist.
Charlottetown Weblogger Meeting 2.0
Posted by on Monday, April 28, 2003 in - 1 comment
Will Pate has called another Charlottetown Weblogger meeting. This 1PM Thursday, May 1st at the Formosa Tea Room on University Ave. • The last meeting was cool. Anyone interested is welcome. We’ll be there.
New feature: Recently Referred Visitors
Posted by on Saturday, April 26, 2003 in - 1 comment
Based on Dean Allen’s Refer code, the new Recently Referred Visitors feature lists the last 50 visitors to Acts of Volition who have been recently referred to our site. The user’s domain/IP, the referring site/page/URL, and the destination page/URL are all displayed. • Warning, it can be …