Chipping the web – calendars met on
December 7th, 2006 7:37:46 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
Interval misnamed by an oft mispronounced astronomer: Edmund Halley, whose last name is often mispronounced HAY-lee, named the Saros (an interval between similar eclipses that is approximately 18 years) after an ancient Babylonian term. While the Babylonians knew about the Saros cycle, they used the word “Saros” to refer to a slightly less frequent interval of 3600 years. Halley was tripped up by a Byzantine lexicon from the 10th century that suffered from the same confusion.
CNET offers a eulogy on James Kim. So does Chris Pirillo, who worked with him at TechTV.
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Shelley reminds us to remember. Remember the fallen and honor our troops — you’re not required to support the policies of the current administration in order to do so.
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TDavid feels singled out by Akismet. Trackback here, dude, and we’ll see. Me, I’d like to see an easier way to whitelist people in Akismet than having them register as users. Maybe I’m missing something?
jregent links to my tag cloud widget for WordPress. Thanks, jregent! But, um, where do you use it? AFAIK Windows Live Spaces can’t host WordPress widgets.
Jürgen Leopold uses it on Hurijon – Aus den Tiefen des Webs (“From the depths of the webs”): gathered videos and photos, many humorous.
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Thanks Sterling. I don’t see any trackback code, do you have those enabled (y/n)? A ping was sent through WP, but not sure if you receive. I’m leaving a comment, we’ll see how this goes (unregistered)
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Woah, I was only two degrees of seperation from James Kim (Me->Chris Pirillo->James Kim)…I was reading about his death yesterday while at work (I was browsing CNN Technology on my phone).
The only thing I remember with regards to Pearl Harbor day are the service men and women who lost their lives when the Japanese, however mistakenly, attacked before they declared war. A lot of good folks lost their lives in that attack and in the entire war. War sucks.
Very interesting stuff, with regards to Edmund and the Byzantinians.
Hey TDavid, got the pingback (commment 2). Seems like pingbacks always take time in WordPress, not sure why. Sorry, I often confuse trackback (which I don’t have enabled) and pingback (which I do). Your comment made it through without a hitch, too.
Joseph, do you know Chris? I subscribe to and have traded comments with him, but I’ve never met him or spoken with him.
Does it count if I’ve subscribed to his blog and he’s never responded to any of my comments?
I am trying to test *trackbacks* with Akismet, Sterling. You can enable trackbacks, as you probably know, on a post by post basis — and then turn them off after the test is done.
If you would be willing to test that, then I’d be most interested in that test because that’s what has been reported to me as the problem with Akismet. We’ll have to use a different post though now, so if you set that up just let me know and I’ll send another trackback on a different post of yours.
I’m glad the comments are working though now. Maybe it was just a one off bug or something. Only thing is I’ve had that happen on several blogs, not just this one. You begin to sense patterns emerging after awhile.
Thanks for your help
Ha! Well it is a connection of sorts, isn’t it?
TDavid, call me stupid, but I can’t figure out how to allow trackback. The only option I see in the dashboard is “Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)” which is checked. Any ideas?
If you have both boxes checked on the post, the format to send trackback should be for this post:
http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=668/trackback/
You just append /trackback/ to the end of any post where trackbacks are enabled and can send trackbacks.
That’s what I used last night anyway. I just deleted the entry and resent to see if you receive again but it sounds like last night you got the ping (automatic) but not the trackback, yes/no?
The trackback is what I’m being told is being blocked by Akismet, I haven’t heard any report on the automated pings not being received.
Either one or the other is fine, BTW, because the message is getting through, but I’m specifically trying to run down the trackback issue, if there even is one any more. Matt might have made changes already, I don’t know. He hasn’t responded since last night to say one way or the other.
Hope this helps
TD, I only have two checkboxes: allow comments and allow pings. I guess “pings” includes trackbacks?
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