Saturday, July 31 2004
The Whole Web in a Python Dictionary
A few days ago I blogged a straw-man API for client-side HTTP based on dictionaries. This turns out to be well-aligned with a project I’ve had on the back burner...
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Friday, July 30 2004
Corporate Citizenship
Apple is making an executive summary of the 9/11 commission report and the major speeches from the Democratic National Convention available for free on the iTunes Music Store. They deserve...
Monday, July 26 2004
Dictionary as API?
From the Daily Python URL comes another noteworthy API for XML; XMLFragment. I haven’t tried it yet (it doesn’t appear to be separately available, hint, hint), but I like the...
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Sunday, July 25 2004
A Monkey’s Lunch is…
Baileys Irish Cream Kahlúa Macadamia nut liquor, or dark rum (e.g., Myer’s) Coconut Juice Cream Banana Ice The labs will be working on the exact proportions; stay tuned....
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Sunday, July 18 2004
Web-izing The Finder
Timbl has talked about Web-izing databases and languages; what about operating systems? Despite Microsoft’s legal troubles brought about trying to integrate the browser into Windows, it’s a good idea. Here’s...
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Saturday, July 3 2004
Safari as HTML Editor?
Surfin’ Safari hints that the next version of WebCore will be able to edit as well as render HTML. Does this mean that we’ll soon see Safari sport an “edit”...
Friday, July 2 2004
Geopolitical Arbitrage
To develop a previous theme; As markets become more transparent and liquid, it becomes more easy to see opportunities for arbitrage. A wide-scale example of this (to stretch the definition...
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Thursday, July 1 2004
Internet Mapping For the Little Guy
When Tim O’Reilly gave his keynote at eWorld this year, one of his major points was that Internet-based mapping (e.g., Yahoo maps, Mapquest) had failed to take off, despite their...
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Come One, Come All
The W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services promises to be a quiet, calm, tightly-scoped discussion of a well-understood topic, lacking any controversy whatsoever. What else could possibly...