Yesterday, A. told me that there had been an update for Rhapsody with the Moveable Type blogging feature fix. So I decided to check it out. Well, it’s still not working. It’s better but still not working. It now opens up the pop-up JSP window fine but when hitting the Post button, we’re getting a nice javascript error (d not found). A little hack later, I was able to right click and view source on the javascript. Sure enough, the url that Rhapsody sent to the JSP is not properly parsed and still refer to a variable d (document) which is nowhere to be found since the javascript command has been stripped…
But I HAVE A SOLUTION!
So, my MT bookmarklet was this.
All I had to do was remove the link_title value (it’s not being used by the server) from my bookmarklet and voila!
Of course, to try it, I had to turn back on my linux box here at home, reconnect my mouse/keyboard/monitor to boot it properly, swear a few times to find out after 1 hour that the stupid router somehow was not in ‘loopback’ mode so it was denying my request to go to sylvain.homeip.net … Anyways …
MT Blogging works again with this hack (until the JSP guys fix it but A. is on their case) … Well somehow it doesn’t work anymore, crashing in the MT db now .. so who knows .. not my problem as I am using WordPress now which I have to find a solution since it’s not supported by Rhapsody yet…
Wow this firefox extension rulez! I can edit the html right in a window. Then I click Apply … and there you go. Let’s see what else I can do:
- I can make bullets
- more bullets
I can make lists:
- Wow this rocks
- Really !
I can even insert tables:
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Today, I decided to try it. I went to buy a PSP at Fry’s (to make sure I could return it if I screwed up :-)) and it worked!
Ok. I usually don’t advertise for products (at least not for free) BUT I cannot not mention that I bought the best thing ever for Christmas. It’s called the Logitech® Harmony® 880 Advanced Universal Remote. Not only it performs as advertised but the user experience was amazing! This remote allows me to control my Tivo/Xbox/DVD/TV/Receiver/Cable box with 1 single remote control! The amazing thing is that it is capable of not only sending IR commands in a row for a given ‘activity’ but it also knows how to recover if a device was not in the ‘right’ initial state. At any time, if it doesn’t work, you can press the ‘Help’ button and it asks you what is wrong and tries to fix it in sequence. For example, it asks you if the TV is on. You answer No, it turns it on. It asks you if it’s on the correct input. No .. fixed. It’s SO cool. And setting it up took only 10 minutes. You go on their website, you say what hardware you have and how it is connected (what TV input and what Receiver channel) and voila. The most impressive stuff was that it was not working properly at first. Every time I would switch activity (Tivo to DVD), it would switch also the TV inputs (although it shouldn’t) as if it thought the TV was not on the right input already. I went back to the site, found some ‘advanced’ settings and was able to found out that my remote thought the TV had more inputs than it really had. I was able to configure it exactly with the right number of inputs and the problem got fixed in 5 minutes! Now that’s a perfect user experience! Now I can turn on and off my entire system with 1 single remote and 1 single button! No more pressing TV off button + Receiver Off button… One word Logitech (Harmony): Bravo!
As described in a previous post, I had to find a new name for Pluto. However, Plutino didn’t quite do it for me so I decided to go with Platinum instead. In the process, I finally convinced myself to switch to subversion for my source control and managed (by myself!) to recompile the linux package and install it on my dreamhost machine. Now not only it’s faster than when it was being hosted on my home PC running a CVS server with a DynDns dynamic IP address, but I don’t have to worry about losing data as it’s now being backed up automatically!
My book buying frenzy never ending, I am now learning the bash Shell.
Looks like Rhapsody 3.1 blogging with Blogger still works however the formatting is strange. The rhaplink url contains the “ref=blog” param twice and the href is missing a CR to put the first track description of the playlist on the next line… Another (minor) bug to fix I guess.
