SharpReader 0.9.1 has been released. There are loads of new features, including an auto purge function for the busy blogger. Thanks, Steve.

I've imported the rest of my old blog entries into Movable Type. This site now spans three and a half years and four (Blogger, Greymatter, Radio and Movable Type) weblogging platforms. I wasn't suprised to see that many (most) of original links are now broken. The web was a sad place before permalinking. Its a bummer that some of my oldest links are broken because that's how I archived them when I moved off of Blogger. If you need help making the transition to Movable Type, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Matt Drudge: "In the end I really don't care what I'm called, as long as it's not blogger."

More evidence that the US is good at destroying but bad at building:

They have torn down his statues and peppered his portraits with bullet holes, but Iraq's interim U.S. rulers have been forced to print millions of new banknotes bearing the face of Saddam Hussein.

Wired details, step by step, how the worm Slammer brought the internet to its knees:

Slammer owes its speed to UDP, an Internet protocol that's lighter and quicker than the TCP used for Web sites, email, and file downloads. TCP requires sender and receiver to acknowledge each other in a handshake before exchanging information; UDP can carry a message in a single, one-way packet.

I've imported all of my old Radio entries into Movable Type. Thanks, Bill Kearney! Your Exporter.root made it easy to export two years of posts from Radio.

Any Mod_Rewrite experts in the house? Why is this not working?

RewriteEngine on
Options FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^dane/other/(.*)$ /dane/other/?page=$1

I've taken all of the old dane2/ archives offline. They'll be back up when I figure out to import them into MT. Give me a couple of days.

I'm slowing modifying all of the default templates to fit my style. Please let me know if I suddenly make anything unusable.

I held back from switching to Movable Type for a long time after realizing that Radio was no longer the ideal weblogging solution for me. Radio's news aggregator changed my life. When I finally gave up dealing with Radio's memory-eating I couldn't justify moving over to Movable Type because of its "lack" of aggregator. Eventually, I wised-up and realized that a weblogging tool and news aggregator are two different beasts. I'm now using SharpReader. I recommend it to anyone.