editorialgirl

… about to remove the “is” from its status updates, apparently.

At least, that’s what I think this means:

Starting with tonight’s push, any API calls that return information about users’ status messages, including FQL and users.getInfo, will be changing slightly. The return value will now start with a verb, so prepending “is” is no longer required. So in order to construct a full status message it is now $name + ‘ ‘ + $message, instead of $name + ‘ is ‘ + $message. Additionally, users.setStatus will be able to avoid prepending the word “is” by passing in an additional parameter: “status_includes_verb”. If you pass in true for that parameter, it signals to us that we should *not* prepend the word “is” to the status you give us. In a few, we will delete that parameter and change the default behavior to be that you must include your own verb.

Funny; it’s not like developers to over-complicate things, is it? </sarcasm>

*editorialgirl surfaces, gasping for air*

I could use this post to grumble about the fact that I still don’t have internet access in the new place, but I won’t. Especially since it’s my own lazy fault.

Instead, I’m just going to point you to something eerie and wonderful. And very, very scary.

Scott Pack, once described as “the most powerful man in the books trade“, now of publishing house The Friday Project, reviewed my piece The List on the Arvon Friends website last week.

He described it as “witty and clever … wonderful observational writing” and said that I’m “definitely an author to watch”. I’m not sure what he thinks I’m going to do …