“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Saturday, 28 June 2003
Pros: * They're serious about this "midnight sun" thing * Discovered I actually like herring * Fantastic mobile phone coverage * Hima & Sali * Free bicycles! Cons: * They're serious about this "midnight sun" thing * Finns don't seem...
Saturday, 28 June 2003
I feel compelled to respond to Norm Walsh's thoughts on caching. It's important to distinguish between the capabilities of a specific product (such as WWWoffle) and the technology that it implements (caching). I would agree that the general state of...
Tuesday, 24 June 2003
You might notice a few ads in the Weblog and a few other places on the site; I'm playing with Google AdSence, first pointed out by AaronSW. This is really nifty - Google looks at your page, decides what's relevant,...
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Tuesday, 24 June 2003
The W3C Semantic Web wiki has an entry called 'BeesAndAnts' that very effectively conveys something that I've been trying to articulate for a while (and, as usual, failing). It's not about the Semantic Web in my mind, so much as...
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Tuesday, 24 June 2003
We finally did it. More than two years ago, I went to North Carolina almost by accident; at the last minute I asked David Fallside if I could come to the first meeting because it sounded "interesting." One of the...
Tuesday, 24 June 2003
Sam Ruby suggests a roadmap for a new effort that may very well replace RSS. I and many other people have been tempted in the past to do this, and the landscape is littered with the their bones (always wanted...
Monday, 23 June 2003
Pros: * quick 1.5-hour boat ride from Helsinki * cool, still-foreign-looking passport stamps * full of beautiful european architecture / city planning Cons: * v. aggressive postcard-selling girls on EVERY corner * still not sure what the currency is called;...
Sunday, 22 June 2003
Mark Baker responded to my thoughts on RSS history a while back, and I'm *finally* getting around to responding (nothing like a hotel lobby to clear your thoughts...). I agree very much with just about everthing Mark says; RSS feeds...
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Sunday, 22 June 2003
Looks like a good to-read list: John Beatty: Economics of Standards (via John Beatty, one of my fellow BEA-ers; hi John!)...
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Friday, 20 June 2003
Is a Weblog a medium or is it a genre? (yes, this is a Weblog post about Weblogs. Oh, dear God, I've been sucked in...)...
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Tuesday, 17 June 2003
What does this interesting new, ad hoc work have to do with this interesting , new standards work and this interesting, new-ish effort by GK?...
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Monday, 16 June 2003
Sam Ruby has announced a Wiki about what a weblog entry is. Couple of things out of the way first; * 'log' is confusing; I thought he was talking about logfile formats when I first saw it. Call it a...
Saturday, 14 June 2003
Sean McGrath, Macintouch and others point out OxygenXML, a pretty slick-looking XML editor. Either it's pretty new and only now coming onto the scene, or I've had my head deeper in the sand than is typical. To put it through...
Thursday, 12 June 2003
Having a network-enabled (even if only through BlueTooth and infrared) is a heady experience; the ability to access the Web and sync applications from anywhere - really anywhere - is quite liberating. However, after playing with the new toy for...
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Thursday, 12 June 2003
I'm surprised by Dave Winer's continuing reluctance to identify RSS 2.0 with a namespace, given howstrongly he feels about interoperability and respecting format definitions. If RSS 2.0 had a namespace, the conformance and semantics of a particular RSS document would...
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Friday, 6 June 2003
Got the Palm Tungsten T the other day ($309 from buy.com, - $50 trade-in). Nifty, much better than the aging handspring I was toting around. Cool apps include Kinoma for video viewing (anyone asking how Charlie is doing now gets...
Wednesday, 4 June 2003
Tim Bray is looking for an RSS soundbite, what some people would call an elevator pitch, I suppose (aren't they supposed to be level? Never mind). I made an attempt at motivating RSS for people a while back, in the...
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