web-sniffer.net

http://web-sniffer.net/ is very useful, now that Mozilla's web sniffer has gone down.

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21:39 (utc-5)

 

Good Movable Type plugins

I recently helped my friend get up and running with Movable Type. In the process, I installed a few plugins. This post is mostly to keep track of what I installed, as well as future plugins I may find useful:

Brad Choate is the Movable Type plugin king. I installed his MTIfEmpty plugin, his MT-Textile plugin, and his Regex Plugin. I actually didn't use his regex plugin yet, but the others are in use. I'll also possibly want to use his SQL Plugin in the future.

David Raynes' MTOtherBlog was extremely useful.

Finally, Kevin Shay has a whole bunch of Movable Type plugins as well. I've installed his Compare plugin.

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The Patriot Act

While listening to Laura Ingraham today (whom I love), she recommended this article about the Patriot Act by Representative Peter King and former NY City mayer Ed Koch: Leftist Lies About the Patriot Act. The article originally appeared in the New York Post, but FrontPage magazine was the only place I could find it online.

She also recommended The Perils of Soft Power also in the New York Post, by Amir Taheri.

I have yet to read either article, so I'm making them bedtime reading.

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04:25 (utc-5)

 

Don't "feel"... THINK

My friend Sean has (rightly) made a big deal about using the word "feel" when you mean to say "think" for a long time. Before he pointed that out to me I never thought about it, but now I hear people "feeling" instead of "thinking" all the time.

So, I immediately thought of my friend Sean when I saw this link at InstaPundit: I Feel Therefore I Am, by James Harrigan:

At some point in the late 20th century the English language underwent a silent revision. The verb "to think" was replaced by "to feel," and as a result feelings have overtaken thoughts in American public discourse.

By the time this silent revolution in language was complete, what has been termed the Oprah Winfreyization of America was a foregone conclusion. In the vernacular of present-day America, the phrase "I feel" dots the linguistic landscape, and when it is uttered the unspoken assumption is that all feelings are equally valid, no matter how unwarranted those feelings might be.

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04:16 (utc-5)

 

Apache directory slash adding

How do you keep Apache from automatically adding a trailing slash for directories? For instance, when you go to a URL like http://example.com/2003/12/08, Apache sticks a slash on the end to make it http://example.com/2003/12/08/.

Is there any way to keep it from doing that?

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