Am I 2.0ish yet?

robrohr — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:52:34 GMT

Testing graphic upload capabilities via newMediaObject handler for Community Server.

We shall see whether I need to revert to my FTP + Foldershare munge.

Update: Robert McLaws has updated the Community Server MetaBlog interface so that it supports use of the newMediaObject as a method for pushing images/video/etc. to your server. newMediaObject enables moblogging from cell phones, as well as smart client blog post generators, like Windows Live Writer, for instance.

OK. I've looked at Live Writer, and I like what I see. I like the extensibility, and I like that I can use a gui to muck about with the images that I insert into the blog post (drag-and-drop, baby).

Live Writer posts to the blog software using the MetaBlog API (including the newMediaObject for adding media files).

Community Server has yet to officially implement the newMediaObject method, so individuals like Robert McLaws, Ken Robertson (qgyen.net) and Laurent Kempé do the heavy lifting and figure out the implementation.

So I've installed the Ken Robertson fix to Community Server, but my blog server is not completely convinced that it can handle the newMediaObject implementation, so Live Writer shrugs its shoulders and says, "Shucks!"

So I've implemented my FTP -> Foldershare -> web server fix in order to appease my security concerns while enabling my pretty graphical post editing experience.

And they said a trinary counting system was useless...

robrohr — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:08:00 GMT

Oh, yeah. We're back from vacation. Where did we go? Nowhere. It was glorious.

What did we do? Mostly nothing, but before you accuse me of total slack, I did formulate a structured measurement system for, hold onto your hats, nose taps.

Are you ever in a position where you get tapped on the nose so frequently, that you lose track of the number of taps? Me too, so I devised a totally arbitrary system for measuring and counting the number of taps on the nose.

So many systems are base 10 (decimal), base 12 (british), base power of two (computer binary, octal, hexadecimal) that I decided to buck the trends and use a trinary system of measurement, for the purposes of being able to use the nifty higher order prefixes pretty quickly. I told you this was an arbitrary system.

First we need a fundamental unit of nose tapping. Since, in my experience, most nose taps are accompanied by the vocal polyphoneme, "doink," I decided that the fundamental unit of nose tappage would be referred to as the Doink.

In a trinary scheme, the first order aggregate would be a group of three fundamental units. I decided to name this first order aggregate the "poink" as that is the next most frequent vocal accompaniment to my nasal abuse. Therefore, 3 doinks = 1 poink.

The second order aggregate, or multiple of three, was named the "toink." 9 doinks = 3 poinks = 1 toink.

The final (3rd) order aggregate was named, in a fit of silliness, the "squoink." 27 doinks = 9 poinks = 3 toinks = 1 squoink.

Should you experience multiple squoinks of abuse in one sitting, the bruising would be likely to interfere with accurate accounting purposes anyway, so higher order aggregates are left to future scholars. In the interests of providing prefixes for fractional nose taps, I went with the traditional "trilli-" meaning "one third" and "squilli" meaning "one ninth." Therefore a squillisquoink = one trillitoink = one poink = 3 doinks. I hope everything is clear.

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Am I 2.0ish yet?

And they said a trinary counting system was useless...