May 30, 2008 1:43pm

Disqus comments for Habari

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If all goes according to plan, this should be my first post integrating Disqus comments into my blog. I've written a very simple Habari Disqus plugin that puts Disqus comments on posts that have no existing comments. Where there are previous comments, the native comment system will be used.

At the moment, it's a bit fragile, as your theme needs to use a template called comments.php to display normal comments. I'm hoping that someone else will take an interest and improve upon the basic start.

May 28, 2008 7:04pm

Victims of profiteering, again

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(image from http://finance.yahoo.com) The graph above shows the Australian dollar steadily rising against the US dollar over the last two years. It's gone from about $US0.76 to just a touch under $US0.96. That's almost parity, and maybe soon we'll be calling them pesos. Now, if I go to the US, my money buys me a lot more than it did two years ago. Many things are a lot cheaper all the time because of tariffs and taxes, such as books and runners, but the things that make a big difference are food and accommodation. Doesn't it follow that ...
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May 28, 2008 4:30pm

Is it a good thing to announce your blogging hiatus?

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Things have been incredibly busy and stressful at chez nous recently. The beloved is acting in a senior role for a couple of months, which basically means she's doing two jobs, I'm trying to get some serious work done on my PhD so I can submit before the end of the year (a little late, but not outrageous), we're looking at interstate business opportunities, considering getting some work done on our house (it _really_ needs it), I'm trying to continue to contribute to Habari, and there are all those other little bits and pieces of life that seem to take ...
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May 19, 2008 11:51am

Definition of Hell #76

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I met a guy at a party the other night who worked as a voice actor, doing voice overs for car ads and such. He recently had some trouble with a telecommunications company and had to spend a lot of time on the phone navigating through the endless menus. "Press one to be routed back where you came from." The only problem was, the voice on the other end of the phone telling him what buttons to push was his own voice.

May 17, 2008 3:53pm

Habari community and the continuing developer frenzy

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the spike in developer activity after the merging of the Monolith admin theme into the Habari trunk (though I kind of regret the tremor reference, given the pain in China). Things have continued apace since then, and Owen has written a great post about what's been happening. Again, none of this would be possible, or anywhere near as interesting, without the great community. A small excerpt.
Since the merge of the Monolith code, there have been 99 commits. That's roughly one commit every three hours for the past two weeks. ... As ...
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May 12, 2008 11:12am

Translating Habari

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Habari translations have been going full steam ahead on Launchpad. We currently have translations completed in 5 languages (Danish, German, Japanese, Low German, Traditional Chinese), underway in eight languages (Arabic, Czech, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish) and a volunteer signed up for Italian and Piemontese (and I've never even heard of that). This is all pretty exciting for me, never having seen a translation happen before, but one of the most gratifying things is that I don't know two thirds of those that are actively doing translations. Great to have you involved! It seems some other members ...
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May 6, 2008 6:55pm

Who are these del.icio.us users??

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Something thing I find frustrating about del.icio.us (yes, I like the dots) is that you don't know who anybody is. As a participating member of the Habari project I keep an eye on mentions of Habari all over the place. One of those places is Twitter, via a Tweet Scan feed for Habari, so that I get an item in my feed reader when someone tweets about Habari. When I have the chance, I visit the user's Twitter page, have a look at what they said, maybe visit their blog, and generally reply to them. This might be ...
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May 6, 2008 3:48pm

Monolith and the tremor

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A minor tremor has been sent through the Habari community. First, some background. While many (in the context of the number of people who have tried out this little alpha project so far) have said that Habari's "Create" page is a joy to behold, the wider administration section has been a work in progress for some time. Several times posts were made to the development list with mock ups and discussion but nothing concrete had been put in place. Back in February, Michael Heilemann announced that he had been working on a new design for Habari's administration pages, Monolith. ...
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April 30, 2008 5:34pm

Comments update on echo

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I've updated the comment code in Connections. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know if anything seems awry. If it's bug free, it's probably time I released another version. Boy, am I sick of it though. I really need some time to write a new theme.

April 29, 2008 5:06pm

The missing father-in-law and the grey pod

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The beloved was convinced he was dead or dying. He is usually very punctual, and after two hours of waiting, I too was beginning to fear that something untoward may have happened along the hour and a half drive from the farm to the airport, though my melodrama gene is somewhat less developed. So we were stuck at Adelaide airport, worrying for the health of the beloved's father, who I will call Slap for the purposes of this story. And I won't explain why I'll call him that. We spoke to a couple of cops to see if they had ...
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