??Phil?? discusses the death of TrackBack caused by AutoDiscovery
bq. Can TrackBack be saved, while still being more transparent than the original? Sure. All it takes is one step of human intervention before the pings are sent, along with some awareness of what should and shouldn’t be pinged. Either another button alongside Preview and Save, to Discover, or another screen during the entry saving process, listing the autodiscovered URLs along with checkboxes to actually send pings, would do just fine. That, along with enough people deleting pings that don’t actually lead to something more, could possibly return TrackBack pings to being something for readers, rather than something for weblog authors. I doubt it will happen, but it could.
Trouble is, as soon it is made easy to do a Trackback, who is not going to trackback a link? As it is now. only a few people, Phil included, will do it _properly_, which won’t make a trackback worth more to visit.
I have a motto, “If in doubt, leave Trackback out”.
Paul General
Most of my free time at work yesterday and today has been spent trying to find a way round a mail problem at work. Work have introduced a new IMAP server and my “mail client of choice”:http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/index.html doesn’t like it. Whilst Outlook happily connects to it, The Bat! just sits there with its sonar failing. Gaagh, I don’t want to use Outlook, and the Mozilla mail program doesn’t seem much better.
So, I decided to use my own server, and to that end installed Cyrus IMAP Server on a Linux box here at work. Then I can send everything from my work account to that server.
It was fairly easy to install, as Linux things go when you use the source, and although I had some authentication issues to sort out, it now works. I’ve still got the other half of the equation, sending all emails over to this server, to sort out, but I’m almost proud of it working.
Of course, now I’ve done it, I’ve realised that I probably didn’t need an IMAP server to get the job done, just a UNIX mailbox.
Paul Computing
gilmae may scoff but now we have “forest fires too”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2958681.stm
In today’s August like weather (if UK Augusts were hot and sunny) I put a fence up in the garden, make a compost heap, and dug out a new border, which has a sun dial as it’s center piece. Trouble was, I’ve lost the instructions on how to set the time, so I’ve no idea how to position the gnomon.
Aparently the best time to set the position is noon, and set the gnomon to noon at noon. But then I’ve got to take my lattitude into account, but I don’t think I need to be that accurate.
Paul Personal
Let me talk football for just a moment. (US people might know it as soccer, but that is such a horrible name for it). So, it looks like Lucky Arsenal are going to win the Championship this year, purely on fluke alone. I mean, one goal off the heels of Henry’s legs, the other miles off side (okay, 2yards; plus it should never have been Arsenal’s throw in). (p.s. it appears both goals might have been offside).
Obviously, Lucky Arsenal will win the league because skill doesn’t always enter into equation here.
Of course, you make your own look, so I am wondering what exactly Lucky Arsenal have done to get such luck. Are Wolfram and Heart involved? Is the First Evil on the books (The answer is yes; just look at Martin Keown). Even Gary Lineker calls them Lucky now. I propose they change their name permenently to Lucky Arsenal.
The other saying (chiche?) is that luck evens itself over the course of the season. Well, does the slightly unfortunate sending off of Sol Campbell even it up? Maybe the lack of Sol against relegated Sunderland will tip the scales? Maybe Pascan Cygan is their unlucky charm?
And not an Irish player in the team 
Can I form the ABLA club? I’d rather Liverpool than Lucky Arsenal and that is really saying something. Now there’s a team that has no luck. Emile Heskey, say no more.
Paul Personal
A mere six days after it snew in April, we now have a “heatwave”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2952181.stm
bq. Alex Deakin, broadcast meteorologist at the BBC Weather Centre, said temperatures would reach 26C (80F) in parts of the UK, such as Worcester and Cheltenham.
My car registered it was 31.5C (FN F) in Waitrose car park, Reading 2pm. However, typically :-
bq. Rain is expected on Easter Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday, when the best place to find the sun will be Western Scotland.
Paul Personal
I got my postal voting form in the post this morning, but the UK is starting e-voting trials this year.
These are local council elections rather than the big _presidential_ elections where Mr. Blair got his mandate for dictatorship. Arguably, they are more important because who gets onto your local council will affect your day to day life regarding what it is like to live in your town or village. For instance, the Liberal Democrat candidate for my local council has promised funds for increased road safety measures on a road I cross every day and where an 18 year old boy from my road crash his car and died last year. In contrast, the Conservative candidate has promised tax cuts (which he doesn’t really have the power to deliver anyway).
Unsuprisingly, local elections get an even worse turn out than a general election, and that is bad enough. Seen as I had to leave work early to vote last time, trials like e-voting and postal voting and only help getting more people to vote.
Paul Personal
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