Bill Weye

Tag: greymatter

  • Upgrade your blog to Greymatter!

    credit: Laughing Squid With the release of WordPress 2.5 there was an interesting post by Anil Dash asking people to consider upgrading their blogs to Movable Type. Well, as long as Mr. Dash is getting all old school on us, I want to recommend that people upgrade their blogs to Greymatter, the blogging tool that…

  • Digging up old writing

    I can hardly believe that I’ve been blogging since 2001. While not steadily, I have been writing and testing blogging platforms since the early days of blogging, for me beginning in July 2001 with the Greymatter script written by Noah Grey. I used Greymatter until sometime in February 2002 when I switched to Movable Type.…

  • Brief Note: iPod and consumption

    Here is a shout out to Noah Grey and the folks who are visiting from his site. I love my iPod, I really do! The sound is cool, and it is a nice bit of conspicuous consumption; everybody seems to be attracted to the device when it catches their eye. Now I just need to…

  • Bush’s Heros

    Are we now going to have a TV program called “Bush’s Heros”, a la “Hogan’s Heros”? Well, it seems this nice little war we’ve got now has its own trading cards! Shouldn’t every war have memorial trading cards? Maybe you can play flip with them: “I’ll take your bin Laden for the Bush!” If you…

  • September 11th project

    Most of my energy is now being applied to another site I am working on, a site about the tragedy on September 11, 2001 and the fallout from that event. You should go to: http://www.fivecolleges.net/~hector/comm_dept/ for more alternative news about the tragedy and the war that seems to be brewing.

  • Learning about tax expenditures

    Do yourself a favor and learn what “tax expenditures” are because that is how the government, after lobbying from special interests groups, give away the store. Here is how the Digest of Educational Statistics describes tax expenditures: “Losses of tax revenue attributable to provisions of the federal income tax laws that allow a special exclusion,…

  • Radio Free Blog In The Air

    The testing is done, and the Radio Free Blog is in the air. I am using a great perl script called Greymatter to make this happen, along with other scripting tricks to create the quotes and links on the sidebar. If you get a chance look at the Sunday NY Times (7/29/01), and read an…