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An old Planet bug resurfaces

So, I see that Planet still hasn’t fixed the bug I pointed out (and provided a patch for) in 2008. Specifically, it sorts entries by “updated” rather “published”. As a consequence, some years-old blog posts I recently re-tagged showed up as new on Planet NUUG.

Here’s the patch, although I have no idea whether it still applies:

--- __init__.py.orig    2006-07-27 02:01:54.000000000 +0200
+++ __init__.py 2008-01-28 11:38:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@
         added in previous updates and don't creep into the next one.
         """
 
-        for other_key in ("updated", "modified", "published", "issued", "created"):
+        for other_key in ("published", "issued", "created", "updated", "modified"):
             if self.has_key(other_key):
                 date = self.get_as_date(other_key)
                 break

Off-peak

I love XKCD. I love this panel. I even bought the T-shirt.

But in all these years, am I really the only one to have noticed that the comic and the T-shirt are wrong? The peak energy density of the cosmic microwave background radiation occurs at 160.2 GHz, not 160.4 GHz as the shirt says.

Information is hard

Many of you are probably familiar with Information is Beautiful, a blog that attempts to demonstrate how complex information can be presented in a clear, transparent and visually pleasing manner. They usually succeed, but the latest entry is an absolute horror: Continue reading “Information is hard”

Sherlock

Having watched season 1 and the first episode of season 2 of Sherlock, I absolutely love the show, although 2×01 was very weird; very slow, very drawn-out, you think they’ve wrapped it up then discover that it was just the beginning. A bit like those games I shall not name where you play for 20 or 30 hours before you realize that was just the tutorial. Continue reading “Sherlock”

You are always the product

I just discovered that Amazon allows anyone to “follow” a Kindle user, and there is no way to turn that feature off or to block followers. They say your followers can only see notes that you explicitly make public, but they don’t say anything about whether they can see your book list, which is the union of books you’ve bought, books you’ve reviewed and books on your wish lists—and not just eBooks, but paper books as well. Wish lists can be made private, but the FAQ doesn’t say whether that means they don’t appear in my book list on kindle.amazon.com.

This makes me extremely uncomfortable. Continue reading “You are always the product”