Taking a cue from Douglas Bowman's current move to MT(Movable Type), I figured out how to remove the ugly "default.aspx" from all my PermaLinks and archive links. The trick was a little inline C#, turning this:
into this:
== <% Response.Write(Regex.Replace("","default.aspx","")); %> ==
Nerdy, but cool. I like to be able to hide the implementation details (i.e. if I'm running PHP, ASP(Active Service Pages), ASP.Net, etc.) from my users.
As of this moment, my portfolio is worth a whopping $1419.81!!! That's up a staggering _41.981%_ from when I started! It can only get better when Mark starts peddling my ass on the corner. By popular demand, the secondary title of this page is now being randomly pulled from a database. Reload a few times and see what happens. I still need to move the code to get the dynamic title on the archive pages, and I also want to make a public-facing form where people can submit their ideas and I can approve/reject them. Update: To get the ball rolling a bit more, I pulled a few good slogans from the Advertising Slogan Generator. Enjoy.
The newest version of SharpReader is out. I'm glad he fixed the bug that was keeping Windows from shutting down, because that was a little annoying. Other than that, it still continues to be one of the coolest apps I've seen in a long time.
Couple of minor changes to the site. * As further proof of my slavish devotion to keeping track of my BlogShares status, I've put a "BlogShares" item in the side navigation, which pulls data from the BlogShares site using David Reynes's nifty MTBlogShares plugin. Right now it's showing my weblog's current value, P/E ratio, and my portfolio value.
* I put the Nice Titles enhancement on my page (in my mind I keep hearing Sean Connery from Celebrity Jeopardy saying "Nice Titties!"), which gives the fancy popup highlight over links with titles if you're using a "good" browser.
* I added a description for the weblog under the title. It's lame. Any suggestions as far as what i should change it to?
OK, I deserved this:
Thanks, Dave.
Just randomly wondering why my pagerank had gone up to 5, so I check my stats and see I have a new referrer, Technorati. I go to their site, and see they have this "Link Cosmos" thing, so I check out referring webblogs, and I see that Tankek has linked me in his "now..." section. I mean, this is _the_ Tantek (as opposed to the other ones)... the Box Model Hack guy. So now there's all this pressure to, like, uh, be funny or something. Well, maybe not tonight. How about tomorrow I promise I'll write something funny, mmkay? I will say this, having my pagerank go up to 5 kinda makes me feel like partying.
OK, so after one too many Blogger posts getting eaten, I've decided to give MT a whirl. So far I already love it; much more flexible archiving, categorization, built-in comments, EASY importing of my Blogger content, etc. I have a bunch of maintenence to do... need to pick up the DB-driven elements from my other blog and get them in here, but that won't be a problem. I'll need to also go back and fix all the links that referenced Blogger archive pages, as well as starting to do some categorization. Also, I'll probably be putting the style back to roughly what it was before, but this style here is a nice temporary filler.
Over the weekend I whipped up a page to display full-day archives of songs played. There's a link under the last 5 played that will take you to the day of the most recent song played, and you can page around from there.
I added a new feature to the site; a real-time look at what I'm listening to. There are actually two interesting things going on: First is that I now have an Audioscrobbler account set up, which means that anyone can go take a peek at my listening statistics. This is very cool, because the more I listen to stuff, I'll get recommendations about which other users listen to similar stuff, and then I can find other music to listen to that way.
The other neat thing is the info gathering that I'm doing myself. I'm using Do Something to post artist and song title to a .nizzle page on my site, which is stuffing it into a local database. I then put some ASP-Classic (ick!) code into my Blogger template, which does a query on the db to pull back the last 5 songs I've listened to. I'll work on an archive feature over the weekend, so you can pull back what I've listened to on any particular day. The idea for this part of the new hotness was shamelessly stolen from Andre Torrez.
i slapped together a quick automatic comments system last night... you'll now notice a "comments" link below every post, so feel free to go in and write whatever your little heart desires. i will be styling the comments page, i swear; just haven't gotten to it yet.
ok, i'm back. reunion rocked, all the dns should be moved over (still having a small issue getting my email with a pop3 client, but that's a minor thing. check out what pat made me!!!
lots of stuff has been happening... i think i'll work backwards. first and foremost, verisign finally got their act together. i had recieved another phonecall wednesday evening telling me that the fax i sent them was fine and dandy, but they still needed an "authorizing signature" to make everything go through. sent that thursday morning, and finally got an email just a short while ago telling me that they have finally reset my password. you can even see my fancy new dns mappings! by the time i get back from this weekend, the dns should be all propagated and stuff, and i'll be able to start developing on my new .net site.
i had to stay a little bit late at work tonight in order to get my latest project out the door. on the walk to the bus, i was going right through the middle of "light-up night". it was a zoo, and the rain was starting to come down and get even colder, so i was happy to get out of there. (btw, what's up with that woman's hair???)
so, after reading my entry about bike-hunting, my homeslice paul hooked me up! he has a gently used trek cross bike (and it was even housed in my building; mutual friend holding on to it for him), so i'm going to take that off his hands, and put some swanky components on it.
wednesday night i watched the penguins lose to the canadiens in overtime. the slf had gotten some really kickass seats, tho. we were in prime puck-catching territory, if not for those snazzy nets.
this day is seeming to drag on forever, which is why i'm choosing to cave in and create a blog. yes, i'm a matty-come-lately, but it will be nice to be able to just sort of free-form, post, and not have to worry about all the ftp/frontpage/asp hoohah. we'll see how it all works out.
