Wednesday, February 23, 2005
tracking baby steps
Ohhkay, in other news: I have finally implemented Haloscan Trackback and Comments in template, everything should be working fine now (I hope).
I was aiming for trackback only for a while, but I think Haloscan commenting might as well be implemented. I like Haloscan commenting better since it allows for html comment entries (so that you can put links, use html tag styles (like <em>, <I>, etc.) when commenting. I plan on phasing out Blogdrive commenting over time. I think. I would like to transfer all comments made before Haloscan implementation to Haloscan comments, but I might just forego all that...
One word of warning for Blogdrive users wanting to implement Haloscan trackback: do not use the code generated by Haloscan's code generator (the instruction you get at your Haloscan member page); instead use the code posted on this Haloscan forum thread (which is linked from the Haloscan code generator). If you don't do so, you'll wind up having a single trackback page for every single post. Read the thread for more details.
I'm still having problems sending trackback pings, though... to Ben Goodger's blog, specifically. That's the conversation thing about trackback, sending trackback pings to other blogs. If I can't ping other blogs then what's the point?
I'll get back to actual thoughts Really Reall Soon Now™,© &®. Honest.
Speaking of copyrights and honest thoughts, Lessig has given us another heads up for another great book. Released under a CC license, of course. Haven't begun reading it yet, though I've downloaded it...
addendum: BTW, if you read that book carefully, especially the first few pages, the term "Freedom of Expression" (used without permission) is officially a registered trademark of Kembrew McLeod.
And there's an interesting comment on the book posted at Copyfight
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
