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So they increase the price to $26 a month." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 09:16:50 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slumdance.com/blogs/brian_flemming/archives/002135.html&quot;&gt;Brian Flemming&lt;/a&gt; has been debating." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 09:09:11 GMT"/>		<outline text="Kent Newsome has good reaction to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsome.org/2006/05/rich-man-poor-man-and-link-in-peril.shtml&quot;&gt;Steve Gillmor&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsome.org/2006/05/blogs-without-links-are-not-blogs.shtml&quot;&gt;Seth Goldstein&lt;/a&gt; on the subject of links: &quot;This is the sort of arrogant bullshit that makes me want to stop blogging altogether. I am 100% certain that I wouldn't spend a nanosecond hanging out with anyone arrogant and naive enough to believe that they are the only ones with anything useful to say in the real world, so why would I want to do it in the blogosphere?&quot;" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:54:12 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/02/1322240&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt; is discussing a rather terrible article about email and collaboration." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:51:21 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://politics.guardian.co.uk/localelections2006/story/0,,1768133,00.html&quot;&gt;John Prescott&lt;/a&gt; is losing his job. That's a start. &lt;a href=&quot;http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/05/tory_tory_tory.html&quot;&gt;Andrew Sullivan&lt;/a&gt; says the local election has been a good result for the &quot;New&quot; Conservatives. No election in my ward, though. I don't know who I would have voted for had there been." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:49:00 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://peterwall.blogdns.net/archives/2006/05/databases_disas.html&quot;&gt;Peter&lt;/a&gt; has pointed to an interesting problem - protecting the identity of domestic violent victims who are getting aid from FEMA and the Red Cross after Katrina?" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:46:16 GMT"/>		<outline text="Back in March I set up a syndication feed for a think tank (or whatever they are) at my college, which I documented &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/2006/03/25#syndication&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I have updated that entry today with a link to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ponyfish.com/feeds/1616FvIjNmuP&quot;&gt;new feed I set up&lt;/a&gt;." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:21:57 GMT"/>		<outline text="A Day Without Links" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:58:26 GMT">			<outline text="Dave said something interesting." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:58:30 GMT"/>			<outline text="So did Mike Arrington." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:58:35 GMT"/>			<outline text="Guy Kawasaki! Robert Scoble! Jason Calacanis! Steve Rubel!" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:58:39 GMT"/>			<outline text="I'm going to talk about them all, but not point." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:59:07 GMT"/>			<outline text="Because links are no longer sexy, despite their extreme usefulness." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:59:15 GMT"/>			<outline text="If you wish to send me a comment, you have a choice." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 08:59:55 GMT"/>			<outline text="If you are a new and sexy person, scribble down your thoughts and send them to me via carrier pigeon." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 09:00:06 GMT"/>			<outline text="If you are old-fashioned and unsexy, send me an email or click the blue comments button below. Unfortunately, both require you to use links." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 09:00:24 GMT"/>			<outline text="Can somebody explain the point of this silliness to me?" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 09:00:55 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/links22338/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('links22338');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/links22338/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('links22338'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 09:01:05 GMT"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Subway Gets Tech?" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:05:55 GMT">			<outline text="On my way to the train, I hopped in to a Subway in the City to grab some late lunch, and was rather surprised with the new technology they've introduced." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:06:04 GMT"/>			<outline text="They now have a touch-screen ordering system, where you tap in what sandwich you want, they print out a ticket, prepare the sandwich for you, then call the number. You then pay, and it's done." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:06:44 GMT"/>			<outline text="It's pretty nifty, and also accurate (if they have run out of stock of, say, a certain bread or topping, they won't list it on screen)." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:07:23 GMT"/>			<outline text="I briefly chatted with the woman there, who said it will speed up their queues at lunchtime and other busy periods. I'm sceptical. You still have to wait while they prepare your order, and while you pay. It just separates the operations, so that if one gets delayed, the others don't get delayed." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:08:35 GMT"/>			<outline text="I guess they are either testing it, or have tested it and are implementing it." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:10:13 GMT"/>			<outline text="There is another advantage - you don't have to talk to anybody. This has a benefit: they can put the best English speaker on the till, and the people who don't speak English so well can prepare the sandwiches." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:10:29 GMT"/>			<outline text="They could even print out the order reciepts in a different language, presumably." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:19:07 GMT"/>			<outline text="It satisfies one of the tickboxes of modern technology - preventing conversations. The iPod does it, the mobile phone &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; does it very well." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:12:07 GMT"/>			<outline text="Presumably now, the marketing verbiage of having it produced &quot;in front of your eyes&quot; is now irrelevant, since you don't order it with a person, you tap it in to a box." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:19:03 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/subwaytech78204/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('subwaytech78204');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/subwaytech78204/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('subwaytech78204'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:20:24 GMT"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Don't bother, Randy" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:26:23 GMT">			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/?guid=20060425222437&quot;&gt;Randy Charles Morin&lt;/a&gt; is trying to find out why people use MySpace. In return, he gets nothing but spam. There's only one reasonably intelligent response, and even that's not particularly readable:" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:26:29 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;blockquote&gt;THE my space its a connection its no different from AOL but the connection to people it feels so right to be on myspace. My space MY SPACE.  it just feels right to be there if they put t..v. an a way to order pizza i dont think i would be able to move from it. From it FROM my space&lt;/blockquote&gt;" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:27:30 GMT"/>			<outline text="Conclusion 1: The next generation are too lazy to use the bookmark functionality of their browser." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:27:37 GMT"/>			<outline text="Conclusion 2: I'm scared. The sort of people who are now hanging around on MySpace are going to grow up and become doctors and lawyers. If this doesn't scare you, stop what you are doing and read what I said again. MySpace users given scalpels and responsibility. Don't you realise how bad that is?" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:29:40 GMT"/>			<outline text="Conclusion 3: Randy has some &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; strange Google-fu if he can bring so many idiots in with so little text. I want some." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:29:45 GMT"/>			<outline text="To answer the question: why do teenagers love MySpace? Well, think about it. They like it for the same reason they like shitty music. They don't know any better, and their friends like it." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:34:37 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/myspaceiscrap54247/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('myspaceiscrap54247');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/myspaceiscrap54247/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('myspaceiscrap54247'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 16:29:29 GMT"/>			</outline>		<outline text="More Kode, Kids!" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:01:49 GMT">			<outline text="I've improved the comment code, y'all! " created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:01:53 GMT"/>			<outline text="Before you had to enter a seed word, but I've hacked that out." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:02:30 GMT"/>			<outline text="Basically, I thought that Dave is rendering that up in the buildRss code (an area I'm somewhat familiar with now, having &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/2006/05/02#weHaveLiftoffMrKosso&quot;&gt;recently hacked it up to make Haloscan look presentable&lt;/a&gt;)." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:02:39 GMT"/>			<outline text="What now happens is that it's taking the headline, pulling the punctuation and spaces out of it, and adding the random number on the end (as in Tibor/Kosso's code)." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:04:03 GMT"/>			<outline text="This way, you only have to click the button to render the comments up." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:05:01 GMT"/>			<outline text="How does this work? Well, if you look at the code, what it's doing is selecting the parent node, getting the text, then going back in to the first child, then going down to the bottom. This is the code that makes that work:" created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:05:23 GMT">				<outline text="op.go (left, 1)"/>				<outline text="title = op.getLineText ()"/>				<outline text="op.go (right, 1)"/>				<outline text="op.go (down, infinity)"/>				</outline>			<outline text="The next bit of the code is a butchered up version of the bundle in dotOpmlSuite.blog.buildRss. The variable names are the same, see." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:06:33 GMT"/>			<outline text="The final two lines have their ancestry in the Tibor and Kosso code." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:07:00 GMT"/>			<outline text="This function fits nicely in to my philosophy: it should be easier to blog than to masturbate, otherwise nobody is going to bother. (Almost all blogging software fails that test). It removes another layer of day-to-day complexity." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:07:27 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;b&gt;The code is &lt;a href=&quot;http://hosting.opml.org/tommorris/code/comments.opml&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; Here's what you can do with it. If you want it to appear in your right-click menu, go to &quot;Tools &gt; Edit right click menu&quot;. Make a new entry, then double click on it. Copy the code in." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:08:36 GMT"/>			<outline text="If you are using a personal menu, then simply choose &quot;Edit menu&quot; from your personal menu, make a new entry and copy the code in." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:09:55 GMT"/>			<outline text="It may cough up if you include hyperlinks or character-coded items in the title. If this is the case, do it the old fashioned way (or stop putting hyperlinks in your title!)." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:18:26 GMT"/>			<outline text="You may wish to modify the last line in order to do different things with your code. wp.insert, op.insertAtEndOfList and op.insert do different things. All are documented over on &lt;a href=&quot;http://docserver.userland.com&quot;&gt;Docserver&lt;/a&gt;. You can also modify how the insert happens, so if you want it to appear differently, you can do so. Don't worry about breaking anything, as the code is up and can be retrieved if you mess it up too badly." created="Fri, 05 May 2006 18:19:44 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/moreKodeKids93557/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('moreKodeKids93557');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/moreKodeKids93557/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('moreKodeKids93557'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>