Here's a preview how you specify templates in Scripting2.

Here's the template used to render stories.

And the template used to render all the other pages.

The parameters that are filled in by the content system are delmited in <%brackets%>.

 6/13/2010; 11:44:51 AM.   .

Well I fixed the problem with the bad overhang described here.

Now there appears to be another problem. Not sure if it's a result of this fix or if it was a problem before.

I've gotten two reports today, both after making the change, that the site doesn't work in IE8.

Here's a screen shot that illustrates.

If you see what the problem is, please post a comment.

 6/13/2010; 10:57:54 AM.   .

Yesterday's piece about Steve Jobs and my 2007 hard disk got a huge amount of reads, mostly from Hacker News, where it stimulated a lively, passionate discussion.

Not the usual Who Does He Think He Is sort of thing. Apparently a lot of people have had bad experiences and/or have concerns and are anxious to tell their stories.

Here's an example, about Dell. "How do I know that they don't have a FBI hookup that scans all of the 'bad' drives before refurbishing or disposing, or how do I know that they don't have a contract with the MPAA/RIAA to allow their anti-piracy goons to do that? How do I know it doesn't pass through a group of teenagers who parse it for nudes, as happens at most computer repair shops?"

These are all excellent questions.

It's surprising and puzzling that the tech companies don't try to out-do each other to protect their customers' data. True, most users aren't thinking about it now, just as most people weren't thinking about oil spills before the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico. I don't doubt that in the future, snooping by people and companies is going to be a huge problem, a competitive one, as malware is today.

It seems that Apple, Dell, HP, Google, Microsoft, etc ought to be getting on the users' side of this, asap.

 6/13/2010; 7:39:38 AM.   .

I saw a note a few days ago that TechCrunch is moving. Their old offices were in Palo Alto, so I wondered where their new offices would be. Sunnyvale? San Mateo?

Turns out they moved to South of Market, 410 Townsend, on the street where it all started. When Macromind moved from Chicago to San Francisco, they set up shop on Townsend.

Macromind founder Marc Canter had the vision that the tech and art scene would fit into what was an industrial and largely forgotten part of San Francisco. Guys like Marc single-handedly start coral reefs.

It's also really convenient to drive to from the Valley because 280 ends a couple of blocks away.

Scoble shot a picture of their new digs.

Now, of the top publications that cover the tech industry -- TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, PaidContent -- are any of them based in Silicon Valley? It's really weird, I think TC was the only one, and now they're in SF. It's something like having no country music industry pubs HQ'd in Nashville or Memphis.

Bet they'll be going to lots of Giants games. (Let's Go Mets!)

And they can hang out with the Twitter guys, a short walk. ">

 6/13/2010; 5:22:32 AM.   .