RasterWeb!

Wow, last week on Upcoming.org:

Within the next seven days, I’m committing myself to finishing some long-requested features on the site…

Now, this week on Upcoming.org:

As promised, some huge changes to Upcoming.org! The short list: support for personal and self-promotional events, tagging of events, a complete API, improved visual design, and e-mail/SMS reminders…

That’s right, new stuff, including (everybody loves) tags and most importantly, a RESTful API!

I started dropping some events into Upcoming.org last week, so now I’ve got some data to play with. If I get a few free minutes each week (is that likely?) I will try to add more. Heck, if anything I’ll at least add the events that I plan to attend. Maybe you should do the same?

While just letting the OpenPodcast.org material play, I came across some band podcasting their practice. Genius! What a use of podcasting!

The band is the nineteenthirteen massacre, and here’s a bit from their bio:

Formed in February 2005, the nineteenthirteen massacre quickly implemented an RSS feed to offer listeners an alternative to mass media controlled propaganda. D.I.Y. in their punk roots, and disgusted with the direction in which music industry is headed, podcasting and the nineteenthirteen massacre were a natural match…

Even if their music isn’t your cup o’ tea, these guys are breaking new ground. If I was 15 years younger, it’s exactly what I would have done. ;)

Hey, you wanna hear some dork talk to another dork? Then check out the most recent Weekly Ramble.

(This is the longest you’ve ever heard me talk on a podcast, guaranteed!)

I went out EasterSkating today… What is EasterSkating? It’s when you go out skating on Easter. Any other day it would be called RasterSkating, but we’ll make an exception today. I mean, it’s not like Easter is really observed as a holiday anyway, not like Groundhog’s Day, right?

The details? It was sunny out, and over 40 degrees, and I went about 2 miles. I didn’t fall (came close once) took about 4 breaks to stare at the river, waterfall, lakes, etc… Perhaps in the summer I’ll offer RasterSkating Tours of the area… Well, that’s if my RasterCanoe Tours idea doesn’t take off.

I’ve got the search working again, this time using mnoGoSearch, which I must say I’m finding extremely nice!

It’s all written in C, and it’s fast, and it stores data in MySQL and you can use templates, and blah, blah, blah…

I first saw mnoGoSearch about 6 years ago when it was called UdmSearch, and it’s improved quite a bit since then. Hooray for open-source search software.

I’ve still got some work to do customizing the template, and in setting up an indexing schedule, but so far I’m very impressed, as are the people I’ve shown it to. Neat!