Pete’s Diaries It may not be news to some, but it was to me: Apparently Pete Townshend of Who fame has a weblog. Continue reading

Value growth through use… I’ve been reading through some selected quotes on Rogue Moon from the O’Reilly P2P Conference earlier this month. This comment by Dan Bricklin really clicked with me: “When you’re designing something, think of how its value will grow with use… It is possible to build systems where additional use and new… Continue reading

Why is it so quiet here? If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been posting much here recently, it’s not because I have a new drug habit. Rather, it’s because I’ve been working really hard on the software behind this site. (Yes, it’s an excuse, but at least the results make for a good read.)… Continue reading

coral.org goes Manila! The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) works to keep the world’s coral reefs alive and healthy. The site was recently converted to Manila and is edited mainly with Radio Userland. We now have our own news channel and multiple site editors. Go Userland. Go Jake..!..The more y’all hone your product the better my… Continue reading

New Channel: The Register The Register is now a My.UserLand.Com channel. Their RSS feed is here. Continue reading

I’ve been scooped! Leander Kahney of Wired News wrote an article about how I used Google to recover my website after an unfortunate incident of sudden drive death: Cache at the End of His Rainbow Dave says, “Jake, you make UserLand look smart. You can quote me on that.” (So I am.) I just got… Continue reading

Fun with taglines While taking a break from work, I had a little fun with taglines tonight. Here’s the tagline for a new site inspired by today’s Scripting News: Bionic news feeds from Jake’s desktop, through Manila, to you! (Remember Lee Majors?) Jake’s Brainpan has a new tagline too… Continue reading

New My.UserLand.Com channels evhead qmail Continue reading

For your holiday enjoyment, here are some Christmas links: A Christmas Carol An Online Christmas Songbook Christmas Around the World Christmas Central Christmas in Hawai’i How Christmas Works NY Times: The Christmas Eclipse Santa Panic Santa’s Secret Village Surfin’ Christmas Continue reading

DDJ: User Mode Linux Following up on Dave’s “weird”ness theme of the last couple of days, here’s something from Dr. Dobb’s Journal that I think is weird – A Linux filesystem in a SQL database???: Dike is currently working on extending the virtual filesystem—hostfs—to allow remote mounting of directories without root permissions on either end.… Continue reading