Monday, December 26 2005
2005 in Feeds
Another year has gone by, and rather than cataloguing music, movies or books that I liked, here are some feeds on the Web that I enjoyed reading throughout the...
Saturday, December 24 2005
RFC 4229: HTTP Header Field Registrations
The useful end of RFC 3864 (at least regarding HTTP) is finally* here. When you need to know where a particular header is defined there’s now one place to...
Thursday, December 22 2005
How to Throw a Holiday Party
One thing I detest about many technology companies is their tendency to treat employees like overgrown 15-year-olds with no social skills. This was most evident at Java One’s “Social...
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Wednesday, December 21 2005
Choosing a School in a Global Marketplace
Every parent should take a flip through the OECD’s Education at a Glance*, their annual look at the state of learning in most industrialised countries. Why? First of all,...
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Tuesday, December 13 2005
Where have the Professional Journalists Gone?
Like a blogger trying to pump up their buzz, the New York Times declares; Australian Unrest Spreads to Other Cities What’s happened now? Have Melbourne and Brisbane been overrun...
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Tuesday, December 6 2005
The End Is Nigh?
Bloomberg calls it; In the U.S. bond market, the housing bubble has burst. Bonds backed by home loans to the riskiest borrowers, the fastest growing part of the $7.6 trillion...
Monday, December 5 2005
RFC 4287: The Atom Syndication Format
Atom has finally realised its most important advantage over the various flavours of RSS — it’s a Standards-Track RFC. What does this mean? It doesn’t mean that it’s (necessarily)...