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Anybody out there do any Square Foot Gardening? I’ve built some frames and got the mix and plan to put them on the ground this weekend. I also have built a couple vertical trellises, but I’m puzzling (like this person) how the cage can work with vertical growing crops… Maybe I’ll do what the first commenter did and just use the hardware cloth wall around the garden instead of a cage with a top - but I know there’s a raccoon in the neighborhood that could probably climb that…

There was a bitchmeme going around. Scoble, Winer got into the act…

Scoble gets a part of right - we don’t really have that much control, but Winer hits on what I think is important: There are already solutions for this (Atom Threading Extensions, RFC 4685, and RSS Comments feature). We can’t control what people do with our syndicated content, but we can make it easy for tools to auto-discover the conversation specific to a given blog post.

I’ve made available a ‘whole blog feed’ and a ‘per thread’ feed on each post, but I’m really glad that WordPress 2.5 enabled the Atom Threading Extension ‘replies’ relation by default.

After struggling all weekend with CSS, XHTML Yellow Screens of Death, cross-domain JavaScript problems, SVG browser quirks, and PHP errors, I decided to take a break and check in with the HTML5 mailing list. This wasn’t a good idea because I then had to wade through the unending arguments around integrating new vocabularies like SVG and MathML into the text/html serialization. At some point, I must have finally reached a boiling point, because when I happened to hear that Adobe will support AIR on Linux, I finally decided to give Flash/Flex a try on Sunday. The next step is to consider whether a move to a Flash-based blog might actually be a good idea. Click To Read More...

I had heard the advice, but somehow I had not really looked at the actual results. I guess my referenced SVG clip art was causing a bit of a problem in feed readers as the images were only sized via external CSS (which feed readers do not bother picking up). Only after seeing the results of my referenced SVG objects in Planet Mars did I finally get around to doing something about it. Inline styles it is then, until I get around to embedding the images inline when syndicated). I hope this also fixes Opera’s handling of my clip art as well. Here is my Wordpress quick tag which I use to add clip art to my site:

Since the majority of my images are right-floated, for now I don’t mind the occasional one in which I switch float:left for float:right and margin-right for margin-left…

A significant achievement today from Tesla Motors, as described over at their Blog:

“With this milestone, the Tesla Roadster is the only zero emission electric vehicle in production today”

If things go as planned, a trickle of Tesla Roadsters will start to make their way to all those celebrities trying to do good things with their wads of cash when they’re not using their private jets to get around the world. A few well-placed news pieces and endorsements could kick things into overdrive. Click To Read More...

I’ve been following the Tesla Motors story for about a year and a half now. When my wife had some points to burn on her credit card rewards program, she asked me if I wanted a DVD of Who Killed the Electric Car?. I said yes. We watched it tonight. It made me sad, frustrated, angry - but I’m still glad I watched it. Has anyone had a successful electrical conversion of their hybrid car?

I’ve corrected some bugs, tweaked the theme in a few places to improve it - but I haven’t done anything major yet with the blog user interface, leaving it as a simple “stream of entries”. I’m trying to decide the things I should show and then I’ll work on how to present them. What are all the different ways people use blogs? Click To Read More...