And all that jazz
We had a lovely weekend. We went down to see Amy and John on the Friday, ate takeaway and watched Doctor Who. On Saturday Amy and John took us to see Chicago at a local community theatre. Thank you both; it's always good to spend time with you.
Llywellyn: sorted.
jdub, did you see that someone has generalised the idea of hackergotchis to work across multiple sites (and is asking people to pay them if they want to use more than one email address)? To some extent I'd like to see their simple API replicated on other sites, but really I think we've been here before, first with X-Face and later with picons. Either way you either have the problem of distributing a vast database (as with picons) or you have a single point of failure (as with gravatar) or you have to send them inline so they have to be tiny (as with X-Face).
It occurred to me last time this all came around that we already do have a huge distributed database which we use for similar things, namely the DNS. You know what I'd like? I'd like to make a rule that any domain can have a TXT record for this in the spirit of RFC 1464, mapping "face" onto a URL where %e was replaced by the email address:
example.com IN TXT "face=http://example.com/cgi-bin/face?addr=%e"Things I need to fix in FUSA before next week: 386891, 424615, 363911, 402489. I'm also due to be helping at some point with the transition to Bugzilla 3.0, which will make everyone happier.
People have been asking how to move their entire LiveJournal onto a blosxom-based site, so I've been working on writing that. It's not quite finished yet.