Corralling Robots and Spiders

Basically:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

In a file named robots.txt within a particular directory. In the root directory, that keeps all robots out. Or, to specify particular directories:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /images/

In the root directory, that would keep robots out of the "images" and "scripts" directories.

Mountain Goats

Since I try to avoid buying CDs, even by deserving bands, a collection of links to Mountain Goats music:

"Dance Music" and "Love, Love, Love" (NPR Weekend Edition)

"Up the Wolves" (NPR)

"Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?" (NPR)

"Letter from Belgium" (NPR All Songs Considered)

"The Magpie" (NPR All Songs Considered)

Discography (4ad.com)

Miscellaneous Tracks (themountaingoats.net)

Bay to Breakers

Ran (well, walked) the race with my sister last Sunday. Some photos:



» Laura's photos here

Blogger Atom PHP

A second test.

PHP Atom Test

Using script found online.

A test post using the Blogger API and my own very basic PHP interface.

Cheat Sheets

A couple very useful ones:

PHP cheat sheet

regex cheat sheet

Email Post Test

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A Sonnet by a Monkey

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The Magic of Regex

If ever there were a magic spell, this is it:

<\s*(?!a)(?!\/)(?!img)(?!br)[^>]*?>

A wizard's playground:

PCRE Tester

Computer Phonetic Alphabet

Looking for a stable, standardized, universally used phonetic alphabet. Some sources:

IPA Transcription in Unicode (University College, London)

IPA in Unicode (wikipedia)

IPA (wikipedia)

English language (wikipedia)

SAMPA (ASCII)

IPA chart

Unicode hex looks like the way to go.