mnot’s Web log

Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Tuesday, April 29 2003

RSS Schema and dates

Sam mentions dc:date; that's what I was thinking, except that 'date' on its own is pretty useless. As Bill points out, dcterms gives you different date semantics. dcterms:issued seems to...

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Monday, April 28 2003

Wiki as Semantic Web?

Anybody else notice how you can use a Wiki like a Semantic Web engine? For example, define a WikiName, say PersonThing. Only use the PersonThing WikiName on pages that identify......

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I'm an overlord and I'm OK...

[ I tried to post this as a comment on Sam's blog, but I think there may still be transitional issues over there... ] Overlord? COOL... I don't think I've...

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Amazon and Privacy

Amazon sent my wife a nice, juicy bit of SPAM this morning. "Get the Amazon.com Platinum Visa card!" This despite her having her "Communication Preferences" set to not allow anything...

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Sunday, April 27 2003

RSS history module

For discussion: RSS history module (the eventual result of this)....

Saturday, April 26 2003

It's alive

For those who have been helping, it's alive, has been for almost a week, but I still want to do a bit more documentation, hunt down a few bugs, and...

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Thursday, April 24 2003

ETags

It's not necessary to lament the lack of ETags on generated Web pages; cgi_buffer automagically generates and validates them for Perl, Python and PHP scripts. Yes, I keep on shamelessly...

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now available - Photoblog!

OK, here's the deal. As previously reported, we got the nifty Ericsson phones that come with free cameras. They're Internet-capable. The next obvious step is to hook it up to...

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Wednesday, April 23 2003

Current favourite TV

Anitra and I have taken to watching What Not To Wear. Yes, it's a fashion show, but it's probably the most non-American show on right now; very refreshing and wicked...

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Tuesday, April 22 2003

RSS needs Profiling

Tim says thatRSS Needs Fixing. Right on! Some people are intereted in endless tinkering with RSS - I'm not. I'm interested in putting it on everybody's desktop, and making it...

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Sam wants namespaces

Sam proposes some changes to RSS 2.0 regarding namespaces. My first question was, "why?" but upon reading his next post, I get it. The Big Problem with namespaces the first...

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Saturday, April 19 2003

RSS.py 0.43

RSS.py has been revved; fixed some problems with addItem (now takes an index argument to say where to add the item; default is first - used to be last), and...

Friday, April 18 2003

Pellet, indeed.

Don's worried about the glaciating influences of having a stable spec for RSS 2.0. I couldn't disagree more. Like Don, RSS is my hobby; has been since about 1999, when...

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Let's try this.

RSS needs a bit of stablity (as I've often said), so I've gotten off of my duff and done something about it. For your interest, an Internet-Draft of RSS 2.0....

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Thursday, April 17 2003

Flair?

There seems to be a a lot of new blogs showing up from inside companies... I can only wonder if it's becoming the microserf equivalent of flair....

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Tuesday, April 8 2003

HTTP header sniffing

LiveHTTPHeaders for Mozilla is the best HTTP header sniffer I've seen yet; up till now, I've been using WebTee, but for *most* purposes, this is much better. Enjoy....