While his solution works, it leaves the URL ugly e.g. a Picture of my son and his toy duck at would redirect to http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/461492/eric-n-duck.jpg . Below is my solution to the "problem". Simply setup apache2 as a reverse proxy for your public folder on Dropbox.

Here is the sample config I use on http://storage.imbrandon.com/ , its just a couple of added lines to your vhost/httpd.conf ( change the number after the /u/ to your Dropbox user ID number ).

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /dropbox http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/461492/
ProxyPassReverse /dropbox http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/461492/


So now when you visit http://storage.imbrandon.com/dropbox/eric-n-duck.jpg the URL never changes.

I just hope that someday it may be continued in written/novel form. Ahh the things dreams are made of.

I'll leave it to the reader to translate the title ...

What does this mean? To Me it just means more Questions, I cant seem to find any information on QZHTTP. Is it Open Source ? GPL ? Based on Apache ? Totally from scratch ? etc. etc. etc.

So "Dear Lazyweb" what does it mean? Will QZHTTP overrun IIS in web server market share for 2nd place, what about even Apache in 1st ? A quick Google ( don't you like how google is a verb now ) didnt turn up much other than another blog post with just as many questions and not any answers or comments.

Cheers !

Ah, curly quotes. They look nice, but they’re also such a pain if you display code on your blog, or copy/paste it from another blog. Here’s a very simple recipe that I urge you to use if you display code on your blog. Your readers will say thanks you!

A very simple addition to the bottom of your themes functions.php file

<?php remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize'); ?>

Filters function are very powerful because they allow you to override some WordPress features without modifying WP core.

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One of the issues I've noticed is most "tweet flows" want you to update your status across multiple services, like your IM status would be the same as your Twitter status and again the same as your Facebook status and so on. See the problem with this is not all "status" messages on Social Media sites are used for the same purpose , e.g. the Facebook status allows comments and the Tweet allows replies and RT's ( Re-Tweets ) and IM status doesn't allow any feedback at all, at least not publicly. An posting to both identi.ca and twitter causes replies and such to be checked on both.

Where is our "Digital Convergence" / Digital Universe  for Social Media ?

How do any of you keep all the different forms of social media updated ( an relevant ) to the media its self, e.g. not posting the wrong status to the wrong service and not using 100000(.5) web interfaces constantly.

</rant>

Let me know if you notice anything funky about the upgrade, from a cursory look everything seems to be working as it should.

On that note, I've also added a place in the comment section where you can input your Twitter ID and eventually I will publish this information along with the users gravatar and name.

SMS messages always seem to be much more abbreviated than Tweets , here is an example ( fictional to explain the point better ) :

Twitter to Mark : @MarkRosky Me and Sarah are having coffee at Starbucks on 4th and Grand, come join us if you have time.
SMS to Mark : grabbin cup o java at da spot. get down here

Now I'm curious if this is because most people started ( and continue ) to use SMS via limited phone keyboards instead of fuller featured ones on Blackberries, iPhones, and other smart phones ? Is it a mindset when using a device other than a full computer , e.g. when you send a tweet via SMS does it follow the SMS language or Twitter's ? Or am I mistaken and its a whole different demographic ?

I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments 

Anyhow here is a link to the original post titled "Roses are #ff0000 ..." , hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

I'm thinking maybe if I choose a few more subjects to blog about I'd likely blog alot more often, just separating the posts by category and/or tag ( I'm not a fan of running multi blogs if the subjects are loosely related or could have alot of crossover )

Ideas ? anything in your blogrolls' missing that you think I might be able to fill the void in ?

Change is here, and tonight I will sleep well for the first time in ages dreaming of this change.

Wonder if these things can still be secure, accountable, etc. etc. etc. and be 100% opensource ( dosent even have to be GPL, could be something like the CC no driv lic ) so it could be 100% inspected with a re-count paper trail. This is one time IMHO that tree's should NOT be saved, if i am forced to get a receipt at the ATM for every transaction why dont voting machines have "reciepts" that can later be verified and recounted if nessesary.

/me gets off soapbox

Never Forget : 2001-09-11