links for 2005-12-31 December 31, 2005
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The creation of the orangebadges.com forum for current, former and prospective contractors at Microsoft.
Launch Date December 28, 2005
OK, I don’t know if anyone (other than Hans, and hopefully Ant) is reading this yet, so this is really me just talking to myself, to set the expectation/target:
All blog mechanic jiggery-pokery to be complete by January 1st, and new, “real” content to go up by January 2nd, and continue from there.
That’s the plan…
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links for 2005-12-26 December 26, 2005
A Frustrating Few Moments With Wordpress December 25, 2005
OK, I really, really hope that no-one’s picked up on this site and started pulling it through RSS yet. If you have, I apologise for the batch of “testing” posts you’ve just had pushed into the feed!
To explain it in case you’ve seen it, and for my own reference later, here’s what just happened:
Testing
Scenario:
- Installed Jerome’s keywords. Great plugin. All seems well.
- Noticed that “Blog Stuff” category didn’t have a category page.
- Created a new post in that category to see if it caused the category page to generate - it didn’t.
- Deactivated the plugin - homepage freezes after one post due to the tags code I’d added.
- Removed tags code.
- Now creating a new post, in a new category, to see what happens.
I don’t see any reason that it would be connected to the plugin, but basic troubleshooting always starts with “what’s changed?” - so, I want to see what happens by backing out one step.
Update 1: OK… The new post is in the right category, and the category page has been created. This is good. Next step - remove the “Blog Stuff” category to push stuff back to the default category, create another new category, this time from the Dashboard/Manage rather than from within the editor, and see what happens.
Continuing The Test
- Creating a category in the admin tool and then moving a post into the category doesn’t create the archive page.
- Creating a category in the writing tool and then moving the post into that category doesn’t create the archive page.
- Next effort is to post a brand-new message into the (already existing) category page, and see if this works.
Still Testing
- That previous test didn’t work.
- This time, I’ve deleted the category from the site, and left the posts that were in the category previously in the default category that they’ve moved to.
- In creating this post, I’m going to recreate the “Blog Stuff” category, post this into it, and see what happens.
Update: THAT didn’t work either. Does Wordpress and/or Yahoo just not like my category of “Blog Stuff”? Creating another new one, from the Write Post dialog, this time called “Blog”. Of course, I’m also editing a post rather than creating a new one, so we’ll see.
Something Random
New category, created at write time, called “Something Random” (because I want to specifically test two word category names against the one word “Testing” category I used a few minutes ago).
Blog Related
This time, I’m going to try and create a category called “Blog Related”, as the “Something Random” test worked. This is VERY strange stuff.
Didn’t Work
So, shooting for “Weblogs”. Maybe it doesn’t like the word “Blog”? I can’t see a place where it’s conflicting with the URL paths or anything, but who knows…
And so, here we are now…
- The site allowed me to create a category of “Weblogs”, and created the correct Category Archive page for it.
- I moved another post into the new category, and it correctly shows up on the Category Archive page.
- I’m going to delete all those test posts in a moment!
- And then I’m going to re-activate Jerome’s Keywords, and reinsert the code into index.php to take my categories and other keywords and turn them into Technorati keywords.
On the one hand, “job done”. On the other - I don’t completely know what happened here, or whether it’ll happen again. It does seem that I can’t have a category at the moment(?), that starts with “blog”…
Ah well 
links for 2005-12-25
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Hello world! December 22, 2005
I’m in the process of setting this site up, and bringing my content over from it’s current home. Bear with me - I want to take advantage of the opportunity and play with some of the Wordpress features first. Current content is being posted over there still.
(Any posts below this one are “real”, but part of an import test, to put some “play” content into the site for me to work with. They’re from my Wordpress blog, as noted above).
December 24th/25th Update: The configuration is coming along nicely; there’s a couple of extra plug-ins I want to work on, but all the basic post content has been moved over. In the next couple of days, I’ll move pages, links and so forth, and then put a “Everything has moved!” post on the old blog. If you’re here and you see a post you want to comment on, etc., go for it - I’m watching both blogs fully.
Patent Office “Heads Up” on Decision re. RIM/NTP Patents December 21, 2005
U.S. Patent Office Likely to Back BlackBerry Maker - New York Times
The technology patents at the heart of an infringement lawsuit by NTP against Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, are likely to be struck down by the United States patent office, both companies said on Monday, a move that would be a setback for NTP.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office took the unusual step of notifying the companies that it expected to reject the five patents held by NTP in its final rulings.
The office has issued preliminary rejections of all five wireless e-mail patents in the past. The final rulings may come by mid-February, earlier than expected.
“The patent owner’s arguments are deemed nonpersuasive,” said the patent office document, which was received last week but dated Nov. 30. “The next office action is expected to be a final rejection of all current claims.”
Good news for Blackberry users. Of course, we need to keep an eye on what happens in the lawsuit separately, but it’s pretty hard to say “they infringed our patents”, if those patents are ruled invalid by the USPTO…
technorati tags: blackberry, RIM, NTP
Test Post - Performancing For Firefox
Downloaded Performancing For Firefox, and this is a quick test post to see how it handles.
Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8
or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the
blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger
blogs.
And a quick edit to test the “Publish as Edit” option.
links for 2005-12-17 December 17, 2005
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Blogroach? That must have been created for Christopher Coulter…
Another Patent Rejected in the RIM/NTP Battle December 16, 2005
From Blackberry Cool:
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a second NTP Inc. patent in what it described as a non-final action. The patent, 5,625,670, is one of five at the center of the long-running patent dispute between NTP and Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. It’s the second time in a matter of weeks that the PTO has issued a “non-final” rejection of an NTP patent.
Another step in the right direction.
technorati tags: blackberry, RIM, NTP
links for 2005-12-16
RIM-NTP Lawsuit - The Timeline December 15, 2005
(You can find an updated version of this timeline here)
I was consolidating some notes on the various things that have happened in this lawsuit, starting out with a post I linked to earlier, the Mobile Enteprise Weblog, and adding in some other events.
I ended up with this timeline:
Click on it to see it somewhat more readable.
Rest of my posts on RIM, Blackberry’s and the NTP lawsuit elsewhere on this site.
technorati tags: blackberry, RIM, NTP
Comment Spam
Got my first comment spam today - I feel so special! 
Been out with the ‘flu all week. Regular writing to resume this weekend, all being well.
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