A hundred uncalled cross-checks per game. One gets called, late in the game, that leads to the winning goal? The league has obviously tried to stem criticism of the refs and succeeded. You do this to take the focus off the refs and put in on the game where it belongs.

Unfortunately, the reffing is still the equivalent of a dart board.

Very similar to the way cops assign traffic tickets and insurance companies charge automotive insurance premiums.

Windows Automotive 4.2

cool!

I am wondering where Bluetooth is going to fit into the future direction of computing. With WiFi in full tornado mode, do other short-range wireless initiatives stand a chance? Or can Bluetooth co-exist with Wifi? Does Bluetooth become a data sync protocol?

Let me tell you the winners

• Hart goes to Forsberg
• Norris goes to Lidstrom
• Selke goes to Lehtinen
• Vezina goes to Brodeur
• Calder goes to Zetterberg
• Lady Byng goes to Mogilny
• Jack Adams goes to Lemaire

I got tired of Radio, so I wrote my own blogging tool. Still working on setting up the tool on my website. I'll release the application and code in the next month or so. Entirely in C#.

Here's a preview - http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/.

My ASP (NetNation.com) is having trouble properly configuring my Web server for it to work :(

I'll start blogging here as soon as they get their act together.

My first RV expedition is today. This is where I'll be going. Sunday, we'll drop by the African Lion Safari.

It'll give me some time to work on the DudeBar version 0.92. The first version not based on my earlier Bloogle stuff.

cool! XML Weather.

sourced by most of the blogging community.

Only Borland has been able to compete with Microsoft on the programming IDE product category. Here's their latest attempt.

more...

• Borland readies cross-platform tools
• Borland Brings .NET, J2EE Closer
• Borland adds to C#, integration mixes
• Borland Heats Up New, Upgraded Java Tools

our website is live, millions of $$$ to come

In game comments

Credit goal one, by Park to Walz for turning the momentum with a great penalty kill.

Wild 1-0

Credit Klatt on the screen and the second goal.

tie 1-1

By the way, Thomas got the Ducks going on the power play. Steve is a real clutch player. Then he followed it up with an assist to put Anaheim in the driver seat.

Ducks lead 2-1 over Stars

Go to the net and score.

Wild lead 2-1

Congrats to Ottawa Senators in making it to the semis for the first time in nearly 100 years. It's great to see another CDN team in the semis. Let's go Canuks.

Marshall goes to the net and guess what?

Wild lead 3-1

Some triva. The best Leaf this playoff? Thomas with 3 points in his last two with time on the clock.

Wild are blowing out the Canuks. Stars have tied it up. I'm switching over to the close game. Dimaio is playing big for the Stars.

tie 2-2, Stars v Ducks

fell asleep

Duck win 4-3

Went to Toronto West RV on Saturday. Woke up Sunday and went to African Lions Safari. Kids really love the RV.

Things I found out.

• While parked at African Lions Safari, I wanted to use the computer. Not hooked into AC. Kids are sleeping, so I can't run the generator. Battery is dead in notebook. Arggg!
• Kids can't watch TV while driving unless you have a 12-Volt TV :) That sounds like a 2 plus 2 thing, but it just didn't click in my head until I turned on the TV without AC power. Then, "Right!" that makes sense.
• Kids should sit outside of reach of one another. Or they poke each other in the eye.
• Campfires. Fun!
• Toronto West KOA is boring.
• Safari Rd from Hwy 6 to African Lions Safari is not designed for RVs. I took #8 back to the 401.

Overall, RV life is great. Next week, Jellystone park, north Toronto.

S.A.R.S. take two! Major yikes!!! And I think I'm infected.

The following was written by an Associated Press writer...

Morrow's goal was reviewed because Sergei Zubov's wrist shot from 55 feet had bounced off Morrow's skate past goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere, and would not have counted if Morrow had intentionally redirected the puck with his skate.

It's amazing that a professional hockey writer has the misconception. The same misconception was expressed by many other writers in the few hours since the game. It has been legal to intentionally redirect the puck with your skate into the net for many years. It is not legal to kick the puck into the net, with an obvious kicking motion.

To think that all these writers don't actually know the rules of hockey. It's not like it's their job. Oh wait! It is their job. I can understand Joe Schmoe arguing this rule at the water cooler, but hearing this from many paid professional shows a real lack of quality in hockey writers.

> The Truth About Corson
> This is no joke!
> A girl I work with, her brother is a Toronto Metro Cop who works
> dressing room security at all the Maple Leafs home games. He's filled me
> in on what is the real Shane Corson story.
> Corson was sleeping with Alex Mogilny's wife and got her pregnant. She
> then confessed to Mogilny when the Leafs were on their last western
> swing. Remember when Mogilny left the
> team in Edmonton to attend to family matters? He actually left the team
> but Pat Quinn convinced him to return and he promised to deal with
> Corson.  After some dressing room problems
> during the playoffs over this issue, Quinn told Corson to leave the team
> and they came up with the story that you see in the news papers. That's
> what
> the current dressing room rift is all about!!!

Let me finish with the words rumour. This may all be ficticious. I got this email from kent at magma dot ca. The SMTP headers looked valid.

this is a $25,000 per copy utility program. I'm currently re-architecting their next generation product.

another Ken Nickerson project. Ken did well with these guys before with DocSpace. Same owners, same angel and a good chance of success.

source Alec.

It's amazing how patient the Wild have been. Losing 2-0. On a long shift, but a good offensive chance, Brunette dumped it in for a change of line. 30 seconds later, it's a goal to make it 2-1.

By the way, the goal was as lucky as they come. Also, the first penalty of the game. Random. Refs want to make certain they get their name in the paper.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/#nn2003-05-07T11:03:58Z
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/#nn2003-05-08T08:45:59Z

source Don Box.

blogs again. This is a must read for anybody who wants to know what the average Iraqi is thinking.

source Alec.

Early buggy Alpha of the next generation DudeBar. I'll package up something even better (less bugs) tonight when I get home.

Known Bugs

• cannot create an account with the DudeBar
• old icons still (I haven't found any that look good or better)

Things are looking good on the Dude font. Met with the team tonight and things are progressing.

Got an email from Greg Wolfond today. It was good to hear from him. He's moving with all the other entrepreneurs to biochem.

I changed my MSN messenger ID from morin_randy@hotmail.com to randy@kbcafe.com. I tried saving and importing my contact list. Gave me an error. A lot of contacts made it across and but only about half. I have 100s, so I can't easily double check each address. If you didn't get my new address, then sign me up.

I'm going to Albion Hills Campground. I'm trying to stay close to the house. My wife is 8 months pregnant and we'd like to be close to home when the time comes.

Albion Hills is on Albion Road, a.k.a. York Mills Rd., Wilson Ave., Hwy 50, Ellesmere Rd.. Take any of these streets west until you pass Bolton. Bolton is north-east of Brampton.

When I called for reservations, they told me that they only had two campers on site and reservations were not necessary this time a year. If anybody else is looking for some camping today, then you can just my family just north of TO. Weather permitting, I'll have a campfire again this weekend.

Indian Line

I thought about going to Indian Line, which is Finch and 427. But that place is a real dumb. Being in Toronto, some people have taken up residence at the park. I assume it's cheaper than renting an apartment. Looks like a trashy trailer park.

Jellystone

I also thought about Jellystone Park, north Toronto, but when I called for a reservation they warned me that although I could stay there, it wouldn't be pleasant.

Had a great Saturday at this campsite. We were the only campers in our area. I stayed in lot #66, ordered pizza from 2-4-1 Pizza. They don't have any full-service with sewage sites, so I stayed at a services, water and 30-watt site. The park is run by the Toronto and Region Conservation.

I've stayed at two parks, the Toronto KOA and Albion Hills. Albion Hills is much cheaper and much better. In the summer, this park will be even better as they have a very nice beach. The park also has a lot of walking trails and all the sites are well planed out.

Set the campfire at 6-7 PM, put it out after 11 PM. Made my first ever visit to a dumping station this morning. The drive back on Airport Road was amazing. An extreme fog made the drive very difficult. I drove up yesterday on Hwy 50. A lot of great scenery and houses on both routes.

Refs

Let me get back on my ref bashing. The penalty against Pahlsson. What a joke. You can hack a guy across the face in front of the net, but hell don't push a guy who has the puck. Cause he'll dive and draw a penalty.  The reffing this year is laughable. The league should be embarassed.

Sticks

What is it with the sticks? The shitty sticks are causing more goals than they are creating. I don't know how many times this playoff I've seen a d-mans stick blow up and lead to a great offensive chance the other way.

Goal 2-0 Ducks, assist to Ronnings stick, which blew up.

Giguere wins again. I wonder what the Flames management is thinking.

All this is pretty normal when trying to establish such an aggressive authentication system like Passport. This is the critical flaw in Passport, that there will be bugs. Nobody will trust Microsoft's Password and it won't fulfill it's destiny.

On the other hand, if CitiBank undertook the same initiative (with many times the bugs and security holes), the success rate would be higher, because people trust big banks and people don't trust Microsoft.

Let me begin by apologizing to all czech people on behalf of all the Canadians who know that Clarke took too many hits during his playing days. In fact on a broken anckle, he was a jerk even early in his career, so it's more likely he was dropped as a infant.

The Flyers never scored more than two goals in any of the six games in their series with Ottawa. The problem wasn't Cechmanek, the problem is that Clarke keeps signing high-paid non-playoff performers.

Amonte scored one goal in the playoffs, his first playoff goal this century. Roenick loves to hit players during the all-star game when they don't expect it, but come playoff time, he cowers. This is the same team that scored a whole two playoff goals last season.  Actually, this is the same team less Desjardins, their best skater, who was injured in the series against the Leafs.

In eleven games against Ottawa over two seasons, the Flyers have never scored more than two goals and all three of their wins were stand on his head shutouts by Cechmanek.

If I were the Leafs, I'd be stealing this guy from underneath Clarke and the Flyers. By the way, after a couple handful of disappointing seasons, Clarke still has a job.

The final words.

The Flyers will never win the Cup while Clarke is alive.

Let's start off with another weak penalty call. I want the Sens to win, but not that way.

Albelin scores 1-0 Devils

Burns move to put Albelin in the lineup pays off early. The call against Brodeur for delay of game was a good and obvious call. Great power play by the Sens, but no payoff. They were really swarming the offensive zone, skating well. Another weak call against the Devils, Smehlik barely touched Schaeffer. Not to say the Sens are not dominating the Devils, as they are, with speed. And when you dominate a team, you usually get penalties called against. The Devils are winning on the scoreboard. The Sens are dominating the play. But the refs are deciding the game. Arggg!!!

Elias rings one off the post short-handed

Friesen scores 2-0 Devils

Great period by the Devils. Escaped swarming pressure by the Sens and lead the game 2-0, could have been 3-0 with Elias' post. Sens although dominating the play, couldn't get enough quality chances and finish off good offensive pressure.

The second period has been dominated by Scott Niedermayer. A handful of Niedermayer giveaways one of them leading to...

Bonk scores Sens now trail 2-1

Madden scores, Devils lead 3-1

Weird goal. Looked like the Devils were going to get a penalty, so the Sens stopped skating. Madden took off on a partial break-away and scored.

Looks like the refs are now evening out the penalty situation. With all those weak calls early against the Devils, the second half has been dominated with bad calls against the Sens. Reffing! Great shorthanded effort by Hossa. At least the blind mice are calling them both ways :)

Pandolfo makes it 4-1

Game over.  The difference in the game was that Brodeur made the saves and Lalime didn't.

Quote

I've got a news bulletin for you. The richest man in the world just stiffed me for $6.00!

This sounds like they laid off another 50 people. That would be approximately how many people were left in Toronto. I wonder who took the bullet today?

Notes

• They have enough money to open a new staffed head office in Santa Barbara and follow that up with another round of cost cutting. Maybe they should cut the SB office, especially Sims.

I just finished DudeBar version 1.92. Better install and setup with this one. I was getting a lot of noise from previous installations of the bar. This one cleans up the Registry a lot better.

other

• DudeDB has surpassed 2 gig.
• Backed it up this morning for the first time (but where to put the backup?).
• DudeWeb was down this morning when I woke up (unsure why).

The Viral Dudesphere

The newest DudeBar (1.93) supports emailing of Dude items to friends.

Here's a really cool blog. There's a discussion about an RSS 2.0 profile. There's also a piece on the history of RSS.

Ducks are back in the series. The Ducks played much better at home. Marc Chouinard was +2 on 10 shifts. Ozolinsh played his best game on both ends of the ice. The Elias, Gomez and Marshall line is hot and scored both Devil goals. The OT goal is a set faceoff play that the Ducks have tried with success throughout the playoffs. Salei missed the same shot earlier in the series.

The second goal on Brodeur was comical. Watch it if you have haven't. The goal was a big turning point in the game. Only 45 seconds after the Elias scored to tie the game at one goal. Ozolinsh dumped it in and the best goalie in the NHL with a stick, dropped his stick, the puck hit the stick and went thru his legs and into the net. You gotta see it to believe it.

A reproduction in whole of what I posted on the Dude blog.

Chaos reigns in the blog community. With blog writing tools supporting three different versions of the RSS standard and many popular RSS authors like Don Box and Sam Ruby writing new non-compliant RSS extensions, it has become a nightmare to write an RSS aggregation tool. The RSS community is divided into two camps with David Winer pushing his RSS 2.0 and the RDF Working Group pushing their RSS 1.0.

Further to the blog community nightmare, variations on the blogging API have appeared that continue to make blog tool development more difficult than it should. We have two blogging APIs in MetaWeblog API and Blogger API and Blogger has recently introduced a new version of their API that is not fully compatible with previous versions of their API.

The forks all over the roads are only leading to confusing in the Blog tool market. Development is getting increasingly more difficult as the camps invent new ways to make existing software incompatible. As such, I think we should begin supporting standardization initiatives like Mark Nottingham's RSS 2.0 IETF draft.

I got a good reply for Dave Winer on his thoughts about the 2.0 draft-standard. I also posted some thoughts on the Dude blog.

From next week he will write fortnightly in G2

This issue has brought forth a major new problem in this globalized economy. You can take someone to court in Germany to prevent them from doing things in Utah.

The article is full of absolute crap. It's this type of crap that is confusing the issue. I'm no lawyer, so I'm not going to comment on legalities. But here's some obvious flaws in the article.

• I did the Google search suggested by the author. He claims there was ten pages of results. In fact, there is fifty. Could there have been 10 when he ran the query and 50 now. No chance. It looks like the author ran the query and saw ten pages on the bottom of the screen in the Gooooooooogle page flipper and assumed there was only ten pages. A very limited understanding of Google. This would indicate to me that he didn't even review many of the Google pages or he would have realized there was many more pages than 10.
• The author claims that some of the hits in the Google search included resume information for people that worked on both Linux and AIX. I had to search pretty hard to find anything. Here's what I found.
  • Denis Joseph Barrow, didn't work on AIX at IBM. I emailed him to confirm.
• The author suggests that IBM may have shared "EBCDIC/ASCII tables and conversion routines" from AIX to Linux. The mysterious art of code page translation :) I doubt that the x-86 Linux kernel even has such code, although I couldn't say I know that for certain. But certainly, this is not valuable technology. This would, in my judgement, only benefit IBM and it's S/390 Linux.

More

• Mark Nottingham's The author's blog.
• His blog item on the draft.
• On Sam Ruby's blog.

IDG has pulled it's lawyers cap on tight and is digging in for a class action lawsuit. The following exert is from title 17 of the U.S. code.

In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000.

I currently have a dozen authors, including myself, who claim their material was published without permission or payment by IDG's ComputerWorld.com. At $150,000 per article, IDG would be liable for almost $2,000,000 in statutorial damages plus legal fees. I've tried to negotiate myself for one fifteenth, but they are not responding to my emails.

I also have a browser, Juice. I should sue. I only want $750k. I'm not as greedy as AOL.

related

• AOL and Microsoft to talk about IM
• Is this the end of Netscape?

Start of First Period

Friesen and Marshall both look good early again this game.

Start of Second Period

What a boring game. I'm falling asleep. And as I wrote this

Elias makes it 1-0 for the Devils

Elias did this really weird thing. He went to the net. At least one player isn't a chicken. Both teams should be embarassed. The Ducks have only one player tonight, Kariya.

Marshall scores again, 2-0 Devils

End of the Second Period

The Ducks are not giving this much of a show. By the way, both goals were scored on shots by Tverdovsky, from the blue line. Not exactly good shooting position or hard shots. But, someone went to the net, someone shot the puck and good things happened. The Ducks pass it around in the offensive zone until they lose the puck, rarely shooting.

Start of the Third Period

Friesen scores again, 3-0 Devils

Giguere should have had that one. Guess what? Friesen shot the puck. Not a good shot. Just a shot. Sometimes, it goes in. Chistov didn't play for some 10 minutes while the Ducks were down two goals. Ozolinsh has been on the ice more often than not since the third goal. The Ducks shot the puck a couple times in the last minute of play. They pass too much. Shoot! It's not hard. Game over. Devils win. Another Brodeur shutout.

Comments on Sam Ruby's blog. John Palfrey's notes on Winer's keynote. Palfrey's version has more content and less action. Donna Wentworth's interpretation of the keynote. Winer summarized the event with "Had I chosen a song for the keynote it would have been Give Peace a Chance."

Paul Martin's election team is Web enabled. He has a great website and a decent blog. They even have a World-Of-Mouth email campaign to sign up new Paul Martin supporters to the party.

Novell claims that it never transferred the copyrights and patents to SCO. SCO claims that it did. Sounds like the lawyers didn't do their job. How could Novell sell their UNIX technology to SCO and not spell out clearly whether the copyrights and patents were part of the package?

This tells me that one of three things are true...

1. SCO is lying.
2. Novell is lying.
3. SCO and Novell had really bad lawyers during the takeover.

I also had to reset the IP forwarding because the DHCP acquired IP address changed.

This is really cool office space downtown Toronto. Home of Kinitos.

I've been working for A.C. Nielsen as a C#.NET system architect. I haven't architected or designed anything and neither have I written one line of C# code. Most of the time, I just sit at my desk and surf the Web. Occasionally, I mock up a screen in Visio or create PPT slides of recent meetings. More often than not, I'm just picking my nose.

A note that the Ducks have lost but one game in the finals and everybody has given up on them. That game was also on the road and after a lengthy ten game layoff. The Ducks are clearly out-manned in this series and I expect they'll lose, but the media has jumped off this bandwagon too fast. The are still the second best team :)

Grant Marshall and Jeff Friesen continue to show up big. I wish I could've blogged last nights game. Sorry!

The last 24 hours have been interesting. I found that one of my articles was illegally published on a computerworld.com webpage. The editors of computerworld were nice enough to tell me that many other authors were in the same boat and that we all should feel priviledged to be on their website. The lawyers quickly stepped in and told the editors to keep their yappers shut. Damage down, I've been emailing all the authors that I feel are in the same violated boat as myself. I've already received feedback from half a dozen and increasing authors indicating their copyright authority was violated by computerworld.com.

The problem seems to stem from an syndication agreement between DevArticles.com and computerworld. Ben Shepherd at DevArticles has been a great help. He removed all my articles from DevArticles.com website. I had previously given them permission to publish the articles, but never to redistribute. By the way, I think DevArticles is a great site and you should check it out. I don't know that they have done anything wrong.

I have also been contacted by other websites and authors who claim that DevArticles and computerworld took their articles without permission. If anybody knows any other authors that might have been wrongly (copyright) violated, then please have then contact me. Computerworld has removed my article from their website and has been contacting some authors of articles on their site.

My ISP NetNation.com is to blame. First, they deleted the permissions for me to write to all the files in the root of my website. Then they killed my .NET application. Then they password protected my blog. Things seem back to normal. I pray :(

Steve: How can we legally underwrite the SCO lawsuit?
Bill: Let's say we needed a license of SCO UNIX to enhance Services for UNIX.
Steve: Ya, that's the ticket.
Bill: Hey, you have a tatoo on your back.
Steve: So do you.
Bill: What does mine say?
Steve: Dude. What does mine say?
Bill: Sweet. What does my tatoo say.
Steve: Dude. What does my tatoo say.
Bill: Sweet...

Once you get use to linkedin , it's actually quite useful. Lot of great people on it. Collaboration is the future. Lot's of work to do till we get there. It would be interesting to see some collaboration tools to get new projects off the ground (between introduction and flight). Like sourceforge, but for the entrepreneur instead of the developer.

It was just pointed out to me by a fellow blogger and linkedin connection that I'm linked into the Chairman of Ebay, Pierre Omidyar.

This can't be too good for him :)

I think the biggest mistake of waterfall development is that developers thought they could take a project from the idea stage to completion in 12-24 months without any feedback post the analysis phase from the dark side, that is marketing and customers. What spiral development offers is quick and repeated attempts to give the dark side the ability to respond to and change the developer's vision. What this means is that regardless of the methodology used, problems will arise with inadequate input from the dark side.

The Truth about the Dark Side

I've worked on a lot of projects and startup companies. I have found that a good development team without a good marketing team cannot succeed, whereas a good marketing team without a good development team can succeed. The best solution is of course to have two good teams, but my conclusion is that having a good marketing team is more important than having a good development team.

TODO: expand on this later

Q&A with an X-box champion.

source Slashdot and Google.

I love IKEA's $1 hotdogs. I wish I lived or worked next to one.

I went with the wife and 2.9 kids on Saturday (427 & QEW, TO). Bought some junk. Great hot dog!

It's an all out Blog War! Arggg!!! Take this! And that!

Let me point out that Alec is an x-M$ST employee :)

Great starting point for research into Blog APIs.

source http://blogs.it/0100198/.

Very surprising. This guy is obviously too rich to be greedy. He speaks only truth.

source rc3.org.

I made the resume button on the right pane of my blog with the tool.

source Dave Winer.

interesting thoughts on how word-of-blog happens in the Blogosphere.

source BoingBoing and Microdoc News.

Hossa is flying on his first shift. That might be the game.

Arvedson scores, 1-0 Sens.

Sens went to sleep after they got up a goal.

End of first period.

Langenbrunner pots two quick goals. Devils lead 2-1.

Martin calls a timeout for Ottawa. Good move. Quell the flood early. I believe Elias has five game seven goals, one less than the record. Elias is flying tonight. Hossa has disappeared. Nieuwendyk is barely playing because of his injury. Sens had two great shifts in a row late in the second, no goal, started by Spezza, Schaefer and Havlat's lines with help from Bonk. A second great shift in a row by the Spezza line with Chara looking great in front of the net. Brodeur shot a helmet at the puck, no penalty. This resulted in a penalty to White later in the shift, when the ref realized that the Devils were pushing the barrell too far. Great defensive speed by Alfredsson after giving away the puck to cause and save a 2 on 1, right before White penalty.

End of the second period.

After a great start in the playoff along side Nieuwendyk, Langenbrunner tailed off. Langenbrunner put himself back in the Conn Smyth race. Ottawa has to play Spezza this period more than just 5 shifts.

Start of the third period.

Spezza took an extra long shift to start the third.

Bonk drills a big slapshot from 40-50 feet and scores.

Assist to Hossa. Langenbrunner and Elias are really pumped for Jersey. Chara having a big shift, kept the puck in for several chances. Schaefer is having a great game. A lot of non-calls this game, which I can accept, but then a weak penalty against Rachunek. Lalime stones Gomez. Gomez is not having a good playoff. Hossa skating like the wind, goes in alone on Brodeur. Save!

This is a Great Game!

We are approaching next goal wins territory. Jersey has had a bad period. Sens are killing them. I can't pick a pic to put on this blog, cause a lot of players are playing great. It wouldn't be fair to pick one.

Friesen from Marshall 3-2 Devils and it's late.

Great game by Marshall. Friesen is scoring big goals. Lalime's on the bench. 30 seconds, face-off deap in Devils end.

Devils Win! Booooo!

Spezza played one shift in the third. The guy won game five for them and he gets to sit on the bench and watch his team lose.

It is with the saddest heart that we must pass on the following news. Please join us in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and complications from repeated pokes in the belly.

He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch. The gravesite was piled high with flours. Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his late life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very 'smart' cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still, as a crusty old man, was considered a roll model for millions.

Doughboy is survived by his wife, Play Dough; two children, John Dough and Jane Dough; plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart. The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.

I've been doing a lot of research on the 802.11g wireless standard. I even emailed Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing.net for an opinion on its viability. Cory is negative on 11g because it slows to 11b speeds when an 11b device is present. This was done to preserve backwards compatibility with 11b.

The most interesting part of the standard is that Wi-LAN claims that you must pay them royalty (for its OFDM United States patent number 5,282,222) to implement. Wi-LAN is from Calgary, Canada.

Funny!

You might also want to read the entire Waxy blog for the last month, a handful of posts, with many references to the vid. You can download the vids here.

WiFi-G or WiGee?

more

• 802.11g Specification Nears Finalization
• 802.11 at IEEE
  

Wow! What a game. Sen's Chris Phillips scored in overtime to force a game seven back in Ottawa. I would love to attend that game, but my wife is 9 months pregnant.

Hossa picked up his game last night, he was the fourth star. Spezza was invisible in his 15 minutes of ice-time. Nieuwendyk scored for the Devils. He may miss game 7, that would be disastrous for the Devils.

Stars of the Game

• Chris Phillips
• Patrick Lalime
• Martin Brodeur
• Marian Hossa
• Joe Nieuwendyk

This is a document I'm writing to describe the current state of RSS. This is in response to a community attempt to describe a non-standard RSS Profile. This document describes RSS as it is today, discussing the most used specifications and various common uses. It does not include extensions like comments and trackbacks, but these will be included in a further draft, once I get the basics correct.

Note: I've turned on change tracking. You can provide feedback with commented changes in the Word document or simply by sending me an email. Try to focus on things I simply got wrong and not on your personal vision of RSS. The document is currently in Word format. I'll switch to PDF when it's a rock.

from my sister

More fun over on Sam Ruby's blog. My response.

Proprietary Non-XML streams v. XML

Advantage of using XML instead of proprietary data streams is that you don't have to write a parser, because there are already too many good XML parsers. The proprietary stream may seem simpler, but requires more code to get off the ground (i.e. RSS 3.0). Also proprietary streams lead to parser hell, where input and output parsers have different expectations, whereas XML is well defined.

IIOP v. SOAP (or other XML)

Advantage of using SOAP instead of IIOP is that you can write small scripts that use existing HTTP and XML classes and produce readable working samples in record time, as per Sam Ruby's comments. The same is not even conceivable in IIOP.

Is SOAP a slower text based protocol?

Yes, if you read the specs and stick to the examples. No if you think outside the box. Don't limit yourself to the textual tag-heavy serialization of the XML dataset. Consider binary XML. I use to use SGML (ya, the good old days) until we got the protocol correct, then we switch to BXML for efficiency. .NET remoting does provide the capability of using alternate serializers. I'm surprised the development of efficient XML representations hasn't progressed these last 5 years.

Interesting Behavior

The Alexa bar adds a toolbar to IE, plus it adds a toolbar button to the standard IE toolbar. When you click the button, the Alexa toolbar is added and removed from the IE rebar.

answer = yes

StartupJournal.com, The WSJ Center(re) for Entrepreneurs.

Valentin called in the morning too, but my cell was muted. thanks

First star, Jason Spezza with a goal and an assist. He played 5 minutes on the power-play and 6 minutes even-handed. Scored Ottawa's power-play goal, was +1 and won 8 of 9 faceoffs. This in his first ever NHL playoff game.

This begs a question, with the Sens power play struggling against the Devils, would Spezza have made a difference earlier in the series?

Spezza's history would have told you not. He managed only 20 points in 20 OHL playoff games over four years. That after scoring over 2 points per game in the regular season during his only two OHL playoff seasons.

Note: Spezza has 8 points in his last 5 games on little ice-time.

is tomorrow. My wife has informed me that I can buy a WiFi base unit and card for my laptop. I'll be able to surf from the RV when we are parked in the driveway.

Any thoughts on Linksys Wireless-G crap? email me

Ok, I lied. I went to Indian Line Campground in Brampton last night, lot number 25. RVing is fun. It's like I'm a kid, learning new things by the minute. Things I learnt follow.

• If you leave the truck sitting for a week, then you can't let your 2-yr old son in the cabin. He might turn the cabin light and you'll end up with a dead battery.
• My cabin radio requires power from the truck battery for the clock and coach battery for the actually radio. I was wondering previous why the unit seems to have power when none was available in the coach. Now I know.
• The LED gauges for testing the coach battery, water levels and propane level work off the truck battery. So, if your truck battery is dead, then they give false readings. I thought I was out of propane and that my holding tanks were full.
• Check your propane gauge located directly on the tank before you get some kid to put 15 liters of propane in your tank. I thought it was empty, as per above. The gauge located on the propane tank is mechanical, not electrical and would give an accurate result regardless of the truck's battery's status.
• Indian Line Campground is as bad as I thought, but not worse. Most of the residents are permanent. The sites are really badly laid out. I had choice of three different sites and I couldn't park my motorhome and have the campfire on the passenger side in any of them. Although located well above the water level of neighboring Clairevillle Reservoir and a lot of drainage ditches running thru the park, the sites have drainage problems. With over two hundred sites, you'd expect the campground would have more than one children's playground.

This is a tale of two games.

At the mid-point of the game, the Sens led 2-1 and were looking good to tie up the series. If the Sens score next and take a 3-1 lead, then... . The second half of the game was dominated by the defensive minded Devils, who allowed only 8 shots in the last 30 minutes, scoring four unanswered goal.

Alfredsson sat in the penalty box for two Devil power-play goals and caughed up the puck on the Devil short-handed goal.

SCO moves forward on their legal fight against IBM and LINUX.

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"Regardless of the actual outcome, the suit is a warning to IS organizations about the potential legal exposures in using open-source code."

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• SCO's Lawsuit Sends a Warning to Linux IS Shops

Devils leading 1-0 late in third

Devils have defended well all game and relied on Brodeur when good defense was not enough or failing. A bullet on a short-handed two-on-one by Pandolfo, save Lalime. Another short-handed two-on-one, poke check. Lalime is keeping Ottawa in the game. Lalime's on the bench. No shots on goal while the goalie was pulled. Game over.

Jersey up 2 games to 1

Leading candidates in the X-Prize , a competition to develop a reusable manned space capsule.

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• X-Prize space team picks Sask. for launch
• Saskatchewan wants own rocket man

Some weird happenings in the blogosphere. Don Box has really stirred the pot on the RSS specification and re-introduced bloggers to the CDF specification.

Let me express concern with these developments. The blogosphere is one of the first killer Web service application. The Web service behind blogs is the RSS over HTTP protocol. RSS has never been adopted by a standard organization and has long been debated and re-specified. Further re-specification of the standard and re-introduction of competing standards like CDF can only weaken and might topple the current standard, RSS 2.0.