10 posts tagged “movable type”

Bonus points to anyone who can identify what MT module and method I'm looking at, and why.

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Radiohead release their seventh studio album today and it's only available online and you set your own price.  Will you buy the album?  Do you buy the idea?

I will buy the album, and I do buy the idea. Basically, Radiohead are pre-emptively leaking the album, and just seeing how much money they can get for it. I think they wil find that it's a substantial amount. As Ben and Mena Trott discovered in 2001, people are basicaly honest and, if they have the money, and see real value in something, they will pay for it.

I was testing Yuji Takayama-san's most excellent PostVox plug-in for Movable Type:

http://code.sixapart.com/svn/mtplugins/trunk/PostVox/

If you're an MT user I highly recommend it. I plan on using it with djchall.com, once I move that site to a server that contains XML::Parser.

It's getting there--check out this screenshot. Syntax high-lighting, line numbers, helpful error messages that tell you when you've used a template tag incorrectly? This is some ass-kicking shit.

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Movable Type is so epic. Look at that beauteous tag cloud. If you
haven't checked out djchall.com, I suggest you do (f you like music
news and links, that is.)

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I've been a bit embarassed for a while that while I work on Movable Type, I don't actually use it to do any of my own blogging. Tonight while fooling around with the QuickPost feature I realized that a good use for my djchall.com site, which I set up originally to test Yahoo! Small Business hosting, would be a good place to house a music links/news blog. So check it out at:

http://djchall.com

or subscribe to the RSS feed at:

http://djchall.com/atom.xml

Don't worry, I will continue to use djchall.vox.com for personal blogging, and also mp3 posting until I can figure out how to add file uploading to MT's QuickPost feature.

Thanks to Fumiaki and Dice, we had a cornucopia of goodies today here at Six Apart World Headquarters. First, as I was walking to the MT staff meeting, I saw Stephanie drop off a box at Gene's cube. I went over, checked the from address, slit it open and saw that it was indeed the shipment of Movable Type 5th anniversary t-shirts that SAKK had made up. I brought one to the staff meeting and showed it off to much acclaim.

As if that weren't enough SAKK goodness, after the meeting we saw Dice and it was revealed that he had brought over a shipment of speciality Kit-Kat flavors, including the most epic candy of all time, green tea. The first time I heard one I was very skeptical, but it's actually quite delicious. I recommend trying one if you ever have the chance.

All in all, a red-letter day here at 6aSF, thanks to our comrades across the great ocean.

Thanks, SAKK!