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Do you like MetaFilter? Want your own MetaFilter? Try MetaPhilter, or perhaps FreeFilter…

MetaPhilter is a PHP app, while FreeFilter is written in perl.

Let the community begin!

I was trying to figure out why I was so tired and having a hard time staying awake. Could it be staring at SQL code within perl code all day? I noticed that Meteorologist said it was 72 degrees, definitely time to stop staring at the monitor and go outside. A quick jaunt outdoors and one time around the block should wake things up. It’s weird to see big piles of snow outside after Meteorologist tells you it’s in the 70’s, but we just ignored the snow, sure it would disappear soon enough. As we got back inside, we noticed that it was warm, really warm. We hadn’t noticed this before. We then noticed that the wall thermometer indicated it was roughly 78 degrees in the office. Very uncool. In fact, the opposite of cool, it was warm! So here we sit, sweating… staring at code again… and trying to stay awake…

sigh…

Well, I’ve settled on Mantis for our bug tracking needs. It’s a PHP/MySQL app, and does a pretty good job of things so far. In the past I’ve used Bugzilla but unless you’ve got your own server to run it on, and a day to spend tweaking your environment and install perl modules, Bugzilla isn’t really an option. Mantis was up and running in about 15 minutes…

So now it’s time to track some issues, squash some bugs, ignore feature requests, and generally attempt to get organized. Yeah…

Over in the code/src/jedit section I’ve updated a few things. There’s now a clipperlib file for perl functions, and I’ve uploaded a new version of my xinsert file for perl, and new versions of the templates for various DOCTYPE’s.

Dig around… Enjoy, and what not… you jEdit users…

I normally don’t pay attention to things like weblog awards, but Mark mentioned his winning of a Bloggie so I thought I’d take a look.

Well it appears at though there’s a category for ‘lifetime achievement’ which says it’s for Webloggers who have been blogging at least since July 1, 2000. I would have thought 1999, or perhaps 1998, would be more appropriate years. Some year before Blogger came along perhaps… How about 1997?

Since this award can only be won once, I figure it’s only a matter of time before they award it to me. Unless they change that 2000 date to some more recent date. I mean, if you look at the page of only weblogs under ‘ye olde skool’ and pick one each year, then eventually they might get to old RasterWeb! right? All I’ve got to do is outlive the competition, and in 10 or 20 years I’ll be getting the coveted ‘lifetime achievement’ award! Mwuhahaha!

Or maybe not, I mean, it’s all just a popularity contest, right? And popularity is one contest I’ll never win. If I ever do, it’s obvious I’m doing something wrong…

Besides, I can’t attend that SXSW thing, because it’s always at the same time that we have the MXMW thingamabob each year… aw foo…