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I get asked this question a lot. So I'll let you all in on the secret.  The statute of limitations is well up so it's time to let the cat out of the bag, as it were.  Let me tell you a story....

The story starts 100 years ago (well the mid to late 80's), when men were men and wrote code in ASM, no C#.NET, no perl, no Ruby. Rails is what TMRC used for trains not writing code.   Pascal and BASIC were for children who couldn't handle knowing where things were in memory.  It was Assembler or run the risk a lifetime of abuse.

I'm in Austin, TX the rest of this week and heading up the Houston for the weekend, for meetings at Dell. If you're local to that region and want to grab some dinner Thursday, let me know. sean@seanreiser.com

Work's been busy so I haven't posted much. I have 20 half written posts in my queue to finish... maybe some writing on the plane to Austin later in the week, when I visit Dell.

As I get a lot of traffic for integrating Disqus and Drupal I wanted to help publicize Rob Loach's Disqus Module. It looks like it's for Drupal 6 only right now, so you'll still need my hacky howto if you're planning on using Drupal 5, but if you're using Drupal 6, Rob's module is the way to go!

Thanks Rob!

Inspired by twitter blaming @scobleizer for their stability problems I have decided to use him as a scapegoat for everything.

I received a few emails about my twit-out post and I figured while I don't won't post the address of the posters I would answer them publicly.  If you want to comment on my blog, please use comments and not email.  Thanks!

Subject: This is why!

Sean-

Twitter is down right now.  This is why we need to have a boycott.  Get it now?

<name redacted>

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Subject: It's not hard why don't you get it

We're protesting to get twitter fix their *%^!. 

<name redacted>

Got a little behind.  Just catching up.

Spoilers ...You have been warned.

First off, I'd like to make things perfectly clear, I use both my blog and twitter as a place to test technologies. There's always a possibility that something I do will cause a minor explosion. It happens rarely, but every now and then it's going to and I apologize in advance for this. This is a bit of a playground for me.

As is painfully obvious to my twitter-peeps last night there was a bit of a mishap involving twitter and my blog. In a period of a minute I basically retweeted my last hundred tweets or so. I'm posting what happened here so folks having similar issues can see what went on and how I'm handing it in the future and possibly some changes I'm making to the drupal modules in question.

So... on to my story. A few days ago I posted an entry about making my blog the center of my web presence basically adding friendfeed style features into my blog and using seanreiser.com as hub to access my online content.. While doing some research I found a drupal module named activity stream which grabs content from a number of services, creates drupal nodes for them and creates a stream for your site. It also accepts RSS and has a plugin system that allows you to create interfaces for services that it currently doesn't support. So, last night, being the curious person I am, I decide to install the module on seanreiser.com's drupal install and check it out.

Last night, there was a discussion amongst my tweeps (an aside... should a discussion on twitter be a twitscussion) about andy shuttworth's online info flow diagram mention in this article which got me to thinking that I should create a simpler one for how some of the content I'm using is flowing around the web.  My first draft, which isn't complete, looks something like this.

Looks like everything is working... maybe over the weekend I'll consider moving to Drupal 6 if all my modules are compatible.

In Theory this post should got pushed from Quanma to the new blog; be autoposted to livejournal and send a tweet.  Here Goes...