Blog from the Loft

Year 2004 is a very different year for me. I normally, for privacy reason, not talk too much about my personal life on this blog. However year 2004 has been a very personal year. After waiting a long time, I am now the parent of the smartest, cutest little baby in the world (personal [...]

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The online picture framing store American Frame show how to use the web to provide a great service. Try out their frame “wizzard” — upload your picture, and build a picture frame, with matting, select colors, change the wall colors to see if they match…. a great use of web technology !

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Movable type 2.x used to, by default, use numeric file names for individual entry archive files. There is a plug in that change that behaviour to use a text file name created from the title of the entry. With Movabletype 3.x, the new style naming is the default.

But what if your old site and file [...]

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Today I found a bug on United Airlines Flight status checking software on their website.
It is currently 9 am Thursday Dec 9th on the US east coast, which is where this international flight orginated. Look at the status display from their website that I copied below.

The first part of the flight status is correct. The [...]

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Finally, Netflix added a “move to top” button on their rental queue. No more typing in numbers to re-arrange the queue. A very small UI change that does a lot for the user!

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I finally decided to start moving from the old 2.6x Movabletype to the new 3.1x version. I tried it on an internal blog first. I has one problem after the upgrade :
The upgrade somehow overwrote my template files — I link the templates to a text file on disk so that I can edit them [...]

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