Blogging from New Orleans: My friends Steve and Elizabeth are blogging the reconstruction of New Orleans from within the city: Inside the Bowl. We stay with them when we go to Jazz Fest (nearly every year), and we were very worried about them when the flood and hurricane hit. They evacuated successfully and their house... (Storytelling)

redesign: given that you are using the same style for this blog as RFB, i thought we could use this blog as the test blog for the redesign. xian, how do you fell about that?... (design)

Bloggin' Onion, Mom's found out!: The Onion | Mom Finds Out About Blog. So have you've been found out yet?... (Weblog Concepts)

commentary permalink code: so, i could lie and say i coded this but i really swiped it from TypePad Recent Comments#c"> on "> as you can see, there is a link to the comment. see the permalink code followed by #c. i took it out from the code i have at culturekitchen. enjoy!... (code)

Categories Redux: there's a really funny feature on the Onion about blogs. what would i put that under? blogosphere? miscellany?... (categories)

Dealing with duplicate pings: Weblogs often generate multiple trackback pings to the same entry. This is usually because a timeout in the initial ping caused the process to fail to acknowledge, so the sending weblog tries again next time the user updates the entry. To avoid sending out duplicate pings, if you get an error... (Editorial)

Help with comment permalinks: OK, I wanted the comments block on the home page to link to recent comments "filchyboy on Is linking like sex" etc. The problem is that the comment links just go to the entry and don't scroll down automatically to the specific comment's permalink. I was poking around the templates documentation... (Editorial)

Extreme customization: Anyone who's worked with UserTalk, Frontier, Manila, or Radio knows that there's a lot of impressive power packed into these tools and also a lot of idiosyncrasies. The software is ideological in the sense that it reflects the choices and preferences and decisions of mainly one programmer and software architect, Dave... (Products)

Overexamined life?: Scott Simon on NPR this morning describes blogging as a type of diary; he says while it may be right that an unexamined life is not worth living, an overexamined life is not worth reading. (Granted, he's been reading posts by a blogger extolling the virtues of eating toast...) I disagree... (Blogosphere)