Jeremy Zawodny changes his mind and [now

recommends](//jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000697.html) FreeBSD over Linux for MySQL applications at Yahoo.

Employee Directory Search: Resolving Conflicting Usability Guidelines

Finally, an Alertbox that

doesn’t completely suck. It’s been a while since Mr. Nielsen has

contributed anything worth reading.

Here are a couple films–I mean “movies”–that you might like. I certainly did.

Jesus’ Son

Jesus’ Son - Billy Crudup plays “Fuckhead”, an almost lovable dufus with a poet’s heart and a penchant for heroin. The story follows his unintentional search for sobriety. There are some laugh-out-loud funny moments sprinkled with some harrowing and disturbing bits. Much to like here.

No Man’s Land

No Man’s Land - Set on the front lines of the Bosnian-Serb conflict, the movie spends most of its time following 3 men (a Serbian and Two Bosnians) trapped in a trench between the lines (“no man’s land”) This is also a movie with some very funny moments interspersed with violence and trained hatred. It’s a pretty powerful drama.

I’m a switcher. Yep, been using Mozilla Firebird as my primary browser

for nearly a week with very few problems. It’s small, fast, extensible

and… oh don’t listen to me, here’s a nice [list of

reasons](//www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/why/) why you too should switch.

I don’t know if it makes me feel better or not, but there seems to be

a bunch of folks who are having trouble getting work done. Not being

the only one doesn’t really help, but Jeremy [has noticed

it too](//jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000609.html).

I’m working on a PHP app to assist in posting to blosxom-compatible weblogs. I know, I know, the whole point of blosxom is to use the file system. Sometimes though, it’s just easier to fill out a quick html form.

Features implemented:

• Integrated image uploads

• Category selection (single level)

• Automatic (guessed) filenames

• Back-dating stories

[Discuss

document.write(“(” ct_19_WHSf “)”);

](http://www.quicktopic.com/19/H/WHSfxrY9Yz7)

I have a new build of PHPetal available here

Here’s a brief list of the changes…

Story is written using ‘w’ rather that ‘a’ mode.

Story text is wrapped to $maxlinelen before being written to disk.

Backslashes are stripped (using stripslashes()) if magic_quotes_gpc is

set.

Added system call which will “static render” the site using blosxom

after creating the story file

I’m not using blosxom, so if somecould spend a little time testing the

static rendering, it would help. I’ll push it out as version 0.5 if

everyting looks good

There’s some interesting things beginning to happen in the world of PHPosxom

What at first I thought was a development fork,

seems to be turning into an interesting collaboration. It’s very

encouraging to hear so many references to the “Tao of *osxom”, which

is why I’ve been down with the whole concept in the first place.

I’ve added a separate page for PHPetal. All relevant links and information will be found there.

I’ve got a version of PHPetal running which will ping weblogs.com after posting a story. This was one of the things missing from the blosxom “workflow.”

I’ll clean it up and post it for download soon.