Thursday, January 29 2004
Anybody in the house know Latvian?
I found a link in the referrers to a Latvian blog where they’re discussing a previous entry here. Can anyone offer a translation? Google and Babelfish don’t do Latvian (something...
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Orkut
I have to confess to being a bit underwhelmed by Orkut after all the hype; it feels like just YASN. I’m not complaining — it’s cool, and until I write...
Wednesday, January 28 2004
Can we stop it with the orange XML buttons already?
It’s like having a “get your ASCII here” button; completely meaningless. There are literally thousands of XML formats out there, so you’re not really being helpful by labelling it as...
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Sunday, January 25 2004
Legal Implications of Feedback on Weblogs
As alluded to before, you’re taking on legal risk when you allow people to say things to you. Yes, this is crazy, but hey, it’s the US legal system. Go...
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Saturday, January 24 2004
Rebates and Privacy
Last weekend, I bought a Pioneer DVR-A06U DVD/CD Writer from Fry’s, for about $120, after a $30 manufacturer’s rebate. This weekend, I started filling out the rebate paperwork. All of...
Thursday, January 22 2004
iTMS does RSS
This is the way syndication should be; user-customisable and aligned with the Web view of the resources it talks about. Cool. I’ve updated the RSS Tutorial to point to this...
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©
Over the past month or two, I’ve been noticing a little link on larger news organizations’ Web articles, such as that of the New York Times and Christian Science...
Wednesday, January 21 2004
RESTful SPAM?
Just got this: Subject: DELETE to stay in debt, OPEN to become debt free. Non Profit Debt Elimination So close.. if they'd just said GET instead of OPEN......
Tuesday, January 13 2004
Papa Leave
This week’s Economist has an interesting article about parental leave in Sweden (alas, the Web version requires a subscription), a long-standing and generous benefit; they can take up to 13...
Monday, January 12 2004
Decentralised Registration
Wouldn’t it be great if, whenever a business, government organization or just the guy down the block came up with a new format for their documents, they could easily get...
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XQuery on the Web
There’s a lot of interest out there about exposing XQuery 1.0 / XPath 1.0 / XPath 2.0 in Web interfaces. On the face of it, this is quite a compelling...
Jeffrey Record
From the Washington Post: The Army War College has published a paper questioning the scope and approach to the war on terror. Record’s core criticism is that the administration is...
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Sunday, January 11 2004
Paul O’Neill
Well, this should liven things up… “These people are nasty and they have a long memory,” [O’Neill] tells Suskind. But he also believes that by speaking out even in the...
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Thursday, January 8 2004
Officially Unofficial
Rod Chavez has posted an article about running BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 on OSX to O’Reilly. It’s really, really cool that this works, and I’ve had the entire platform (including...
Wednesday, January 7 2004
Cheap Eats
What a steal. If you live near San Francisco, or are visiting this month, make sure you check out Dine About Town — three-course, chef-selected prix fixe menus at over...
Traffic
Anitra is trying to beat a head of traffic that's built up behind an accident upstream; was able to check on the excellent SF Bay area real-time traffic map. I...
Tuesday, January 6 2004
More blogs
Welcome to the jungle, David Orchard, Chris Ferris and Tom Glover (Tom, we need RSS, OK?). (Yes, I know what song you can’t get out of your head now… get...
Saturday, January 3 2004
Extensibility and Interoperability
In his blog, Sean McGrath wonders about two potentially competing faces of standards; extensibility and interoperability. If “compliance” to X is open-ended via an extensiblity mechanism, then “X-compliant” means very...
Mail.app and X-Faces
Mail already shows you a little picture of someone when they’re in your address book. Why doesn’t it send and display X-Faces? Can somebody write a plugin to do this?...
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