Because Blogofile(at least the 0.7.1 version I’m using) regenerates every file and directory every time it makes it hard to update just the changed files on Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage System) can scale incredibly high So I wrote a shell script that updates only the changed files and also pings GooglePing so that Google and other services come along and read your update. Over time, the difference between what the old page 2 on S3 has and what it should be will build. There’s a simple answer, which is to just upload all of the page files. ...

In Switched from WordPress to Blogofile there are two good things about using Blogofile: flat files are almost impossible to hack Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage System) can scale incredibly high There’s some downsides: blogofile build seems to copy or regenerate every single file it’s not totally happy being on S3 - it doesn’t make index.html files for the archive and category directories. there’s no easy way to post-via-email or send a link to start a post Right now I’m writing this with vi and that’s far less comfortable than WordPress’s editor which I really liked. But I’m sure I’ll find TextWrangler or something as suitable for writing blog posts.

I really like WordPress for the huge number of themes and utilities that it has. What I don’t like, though, is the need for constant vigilance to make sure that your blog hasn’t been hacked. When I started the conversion, I found two blog posts that had been secretly altered so that they had links to spam sites. I wasn’t sure whether to be grateful that only two had been altered or disappointed that my blog mattered so little that that’s all they did. ...

I was burned by this one! Graham Cluley writes a nice article on his blog called Twitter phishers are after your password What was really appalling to me was getting burned by this screen: Fake twitter login screen Twitter, like Facebook, lets you use other sites by handling authorization. I’d been having serious problems with Twitter not accepting my password (as were thousands of others, apparently) and it just got fixed last week. ...

These cargo bikes seem really neat for emissions free deliveries in the city. Do wonder about security - not only the cargo being stolen but the whole bike.

This Greasemonkey script Greasefire looks interesting but it doesn’t run on Firefox 3.1 beta, which I’m running now. I find the Greasemonkey scripts for Google Reader very helpful. It’d be nice to look into later.

If you’re like most people, you’ve got more feeds in your news reader than you can keep up with. What’s neat about this script is that it not only makes it easy to subscribe but also shows you if it’s already in your subscription list. If it is, it’s shown with a checkmark over the RSS icon. My only objection is that it’s not posted to UserScripts, a central repository for Greasemonkey scripts. ...

It’s almost tempting to implement this just to see if anybody enters their info, isn’t it? Scam fail

If you’re like me and like to read your feeds sorted by tags, you’ll find yourself jumping from blog to blog. Some Greasemonkey styles for Google Reader drop the feed name to save space, making it hard to tell articles apart. Color is an efficient way to cue people that things are changing. Unless you’re color-blind, I guess. But since I’m not, I appreciate the Google Reader - Colorful List View script because it makes it simple to tell that there’s different feeds. Note: updated to show correct script

Gotta love our zero-tolerance society showing up in situations like this: Florida boy, 12, arrested for farting in class Does anyone doubt that if this was the principal’s kid it would be handled differently?