Feed to JavaScript

July 14th, 2005

I’ve been looking off and on for an method to include RSS feeds into an application that we’re using at work to manage course materials. I found this utility some time ago, and it works great. There’s a moderate delay in how quickly the feeds appear as expected. One aspect that might help would be to install our own instance here. But I think it has more to do with the Javascript parsing of the RSS data.
So What is “Feed to JavaScript”?

Madison Transportation Options

July 7th, 2005

Stumbling around as usual and came across a site that deals with environmental issues in the Madison area. Madison Environmental Group

Bzzzzzzzttt!

June 23rd, 2005

Damn. I just went downstairs and looked to see what kind of electrical panels we have in the basement. This sucks. Did I mention we have two of them?

Federal Pacific Electric FPE Panel Breaker Hazard Summary

Wireless LAN Security & Wardriving - 802.11

June 20th, 2005

Wireless LAN Security & Wardriving - 802.11

I’ll have to spend more time looking at this site later…

Oblomovka

June 10th, 2005

Cool. I added this. We’ll see if its annoying or not. Oblomovka

Wireless Crackin’

June 10th, 2005

One of these days I really should try to do this just to see how well it works. … I have lots of neighbors. ;-) WEP: Dead Again, Part 1

Expanded Patriot Act

June 9th, 2005

I was surprised this morning to find a post to Senator Herb Khol, in reference to an article I read on CNET. I found out about the article through Slahsdot, and as is often the case, its interesting to read many of the comments shared in relation to the story and reading people’s reactions to what the Patriot Act represents.

Update: Not that I would move there, but the Free State Project seems interesting.

Tricky Upgrades

June 3rd, 2005

I like WordPress primarily because its something that I’m a little more comfortable with and the degree of customization. One tricky aspect I’ve already noticed is that if you have made any custom modifications to the application or its files to get a particular plugin/extra feature to work you’ve got to keep track of it somewhere so that when an upgrade is performed, you’re not overwriting a collective of work that’s been performed getting to that point. Still it seems really cool to be able to use many of the features that are provided. I still want to try the email posting option, and I’m really interested in its potential for integration with Gallery. I’ve only begun to play around with trying to get set up the connection between those two. I’m trying to use the new version, v2, that’s out on beta 3, which is really slick when compared to the old version.

Wordpress Email Notify Plugin

June 2nd, 2005

Just installed an email notification plugin that’s similar to what I had when I was using moveabletype.

Municipal broadband

June 2nd, 2005

This is kinda of interesting.

Municipal broadband and wireless projects map | CNET News.com
Wisconsin
Municipal wireless
Functioning projects:

Sun Prairie, Waupaca, Jackson, Shawano
Projects under development or consideration:

Madison, Waukesha, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Bristol
Municipal fiber-to-the-premise
Functioning projects:

Reedsburg
Projects under development or consideration:

None
Municipal broadband laws
Laws limiting communications networks:

Yes
Pending legislation to limit communications networks:

None