Quote: When you receive the RSS file from the webserver, check the response header for two fields: Last-Modified and ETag. You don't have to care what is in these headers, you just have to store them somewhere with the RSS file. Next time you request the RSS file, include two headers in your request.. Your If-Modified-Since header should contain the value you snagged from the Last-Modified header earlier. The If-None-Match header should contain the value you snagged from the ETag header.
Debates across Weblogs suffer from much the same communication breakdowns that occur in regular conversation. But the breakdowns are amplified because response is never immediate. This leads to a broken conversation where one individual fails to remember what he said in each iteration of the conversation. The conversation leads nowhere.
I remember debating with my first university roommate and his girlfriend. The debates didn't get anywhere because we'd fail to set axioms. Axioms are important. Without axioms, you can always question the assumptions underlying any proof. Unless you can agree that some assumptions are true (axioms), then you can always argue any topic into the ground. For instance, yesterday, I listened in on a debate of whether 1 + 1 = 2.
Of course, it's really difficult to forward discuss axioms in everyday conversation or even Weblog conversations. For instance, I've had people argue that X is true during one part of a conversation and X is false during a later part of the same conversation. There's no winning when the conversation sinks here. The only next step when this happens is to halt the conversation and realize that future conversations with this person will also likely degrade to this point.
Tim Berners-Lee presented these Axioms of the Web back in 1996.
- Universality 1 - Any resource anywhere can be given a URI.
- Universality 2 - Any resource of significance should be given a URI.
- Global scope - It doesn't matter to whom or where you specify that URI, it will have the same meaning.
- Sameness - a URI will repeatably refer to "the same" thing.
- Identity - of URIs clears up the vagueness of sameness and is that the significance of identity for a given URI is determined by the person who owns the URI, who first determined what it points to.
- Non unique - URI space does not have to be the only universal space.
- State 1 - In HTTP, GET must not have side effects.
- State 2 - In HTTP, anything which does not have side-effects should use GET.
- Opacity of URIs - The only thing you can use an identifier for is to refer to an object. When you are not dereferencing you should not look at the contents of the URI string to gain other information as little as possible.
Quote: Identifies key differences between all RSS versions.
A great reference for RSS producers and consumers alike.
Looking to reduce the bandwidth consumed by clients polling your RSS 1.0 feed? Try these steps.
- Goto Manage Templates
- click RSS 1.0 Index
- replace template body with below
- click Save
- click Rebuild
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="<$MTPublishCharset$>"?>
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/">
<channel rdf:about="<$MTBlogURL$>">
<title><$MTBlogName encode_xml="1"$></title>
<link><$MTBlogURL$></link>
<description><$MTBlogDescription encode_xml="1"$></description>
<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
<sy:updateFrequency>2</sy:updateFrequency>
<sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase>
<dc:language>en-us</dc:language>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" language="en"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></dc:date>
<admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.movabletype.org/?v=<$MTVersion$>" />
<MTBlogIfCCLicense>
<cc:license rdf:resource="<$MTBlogCCLicenseURL$>" />
</MTBlogIfCCLicense>
<items>
<rdf:Seq><MTEntries lastn="15">
<rdf:li rdf:resource="<$MTEntryPermalink encode_xml="1"$>" />
</MTEntries></rdf:Seq>
</items>
</channel>
<MTEntries lastn="15">
<item rdf:about="<$MTEntryPermalink encode_xml="1"$>">
<title><$MTEntryTitle encode_xml="1"$></title>
<link><$MTEntryPermalink encode_xml="1"$></link>
<description><$MTEntryExcerpt encode_xml="1"$></description>
<dc:subject><$MTEntryCategory encode_xml="1"$></dc:subject>
<dc:creator><$MTEntryAuthor encode_xml="1"$></dc:creator>
<dc:date><$MTEntryDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" language="en"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></dc:date>
</item>
</MTEntries>
</rdf:RDF>
Notes:
- I added three elements from the sy namespace.
- If you previously modified your RSS 1.0 template, then you only have to add these three elements.
- The sy namespace is already declared in the RSS 1.0 template.
- I applied this change to the DudeResearch RSS 1.0 XML and validated it.
- You can reduce/increase the frequency clients poll your RSS by reducing/increasing the updateFrequency element. The higher the number, the less frequent clients will poll your feed.
- Backup your current template, in case, my template isn't perfect. I've been known to write a few bugs.
Much of the Atom discussion of late has related to bandwidth concerns.
- The End of RSS (me)
- Knitwork (me)
- NNTP for Atom (me)
Let's do some analysis. There are two major issues w/ the way the current blogosphere publishes and consumes RSS feeds.
HTTP HEAD
Most RSS client software does not perform a HEAD request before the GET request. This could significantly reduce the bandwidth for RSS files that do not change frequently. A lot of effort has been spent validating feeds. Maybe we need to spend some efforts validating clients.
The advocation of HTTP HEAD isn't something new. It has been discussed without progress for more than a year.
HTTP GET
An alternative to the HTTP HEAD and possible better alternative is the HTTP conditional GET.
Syndication Hints
RSS 1.0 has a syndication module and RSS 0.91/2.0 have elements that allow an RSS feed to give hints to an RSS client of the frequency the file should be polled. These hints can be used to throttle the RSS clients and conserve bandwidth. Most feeds fail to specify these hints.
Next Steps
- RSS client validation - Create a client validation Webpage that identifies the bandwidth friendliness of each RSS client. Clients that respect the HTTP HEAD or HTTP conditional GET option and the syndication hints would receive an RSS client certification.
- RSS feed validation - I suggest we add a informational warning messages to the Feed Validator when syndication hints are not specified in an RSS feed. The warning does not mean a feed is invalid, but guides RSS authors.
- RSS samples - We should begin providing more sample RSS 1.0/2.0 for the various tools that include these syndication hints.
- Before we create new methods for reducing bandwidth, let's start using the existing methods.
All above applies equally to RSS and Atom.
Quote: Here's my prescription to obsolesce the HMV-vended CD, and in so doing, cut the lifeline of the RIAA by obsolescing the efficacy of their entire distribution channel.
More from Nola's Cola crew.
iM the President and this is my blog. And these are my RSS 2.0 funky feeds.
Bush-Cheney '04 Today Campaign News Compassion Economy Education Energy Environment Grassroots Health Care Homeland Security National Security On TV & Radio Take Action!
Quote: There was an old company, called “six degrees” back in the early days of the net. I used them, and so did others - everything was free. It stopped, and I guess it was because of bad management?
Randy: I like free. The trick is to monetize the traffic, which they couldn't. Bad management? What's new?
iM Larry Page
iM Sergey Brin
Quote: I've wanted to do a blog for ages but Sergey couldn't manage to set up MovableType. Apparently it's "Just too difficult". Anyway, the other day he suggested that it would be a thousand times easier to just buy Blogger.com. So we did. We told them their new terms of employment and only one person disagreed.
source Google Blog.
iM 13-10 on the year predicting against the spread.
- Bucs (5-6) v. Jags (2-9) - Super Bowl champs vs 2-9 Jags. Yes, the Bucs are struggling, but remain only 2 games out of the playoffs. Bucs (+3.5).
- Titans (9-2) v. Jets (4-7) - Jets have four wins against really bad teams. Titans (+1.0).
- Chiefs (10-1) v. Chargers (2-9) - This is worth putting down some money. The best offense against the worst d-fense. There's a big time chance the Chiefs will win by several TDs. Chiefs (+7.0).
odds via Covers.
Quote: It was a freight train headed my way for some time, I could see the pressure building weeks in advance. Middle last week the levy finally broke through, first at 10pm, then at 6pm, finally at about noon:
TRAFFIC ALERT FOR teledyn.com
99% of your daily traffic quota has been used with 12:50.16 of your daily cycle elapsed.
At the top of the webstats, the smoking gun: 30,000 requests for the Drupal-generated RSS feed from teledyn.com.
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The astute among you, or more precisely the astute among both Joey and Paul who are both pretty astute, will instantly recognize this as the cascading aggregator network proposal we were mulling in those final days of OpenCola, right before we were all downsized into obscurity.
Randy: A lot is being made of the weight that pull based syndication networks like RSS have on the server. Loved by Nortel from Brampton. iM from Brampton. I like bandwidth heavy protocols. Go away! :)
Do we need an non-pull based syndication network? P2P is being spoken more and more each day. Opencola P2P. Where is Nola and her cola?
More...
source Finally Atom.
Quote: On Wednesday, the crew heard a metallic noise during morning activities in the Russian Zvezda Service Module. Foale said it was a sound similar to shaking a thin sheet of metal so that it bent concave and then convex. All Station systems were checked by ground controllers and found to be operating normally. Exterior television cameras on the robotic arm and the Station truss were used to inspect the exterior of Zvezda and nothing unusual was identified.
Randy: The media is making a big deal of this bump in the night. Already over 200 articles at Google News on the mystery noise. Here's a list of possible causes and their likely hood.
- Space ghosts (0.1%).
- Barry Bonds homerun (0.1%).
- Aliens playing practical jokes (1%).
- Metal fatigue (1%).
- Space debris (97.8%).
I found myself downtown TO w/ my wife and baby at 6PM. I made the stupid decision of trying to drive home. I don't get it. Why does everybody do this? Arggg! Two hour drive home, which otherwise should take 30 minutes. R u all nuts? Mind u, that's 2 days in a row, I got a cut this out myself.
Wake Up and Quit Living in a Lineup.
Oleg: Here is a picture of Times Square I took at 30-sec shutter time in April, 2003:
Defn: ‘Parasite’ is a shorthand term for “unsolicited commercial software” — that is, a program that gets installed on your computer which you never asked for, and which does something you probably don’t want it to, for someone else’s profit.
Randy: My sister installed hotbar. This site was useful in disinfecting.
Canadians eat turkey in October.
Quote: I’ve started some sketching on the Atom Wiki, to try getting some thoughts out of my head, and into words and examples. I’ve assembled them on my Wiki home page, so if you want the details about the knitwork — go there. But I would like to summarize my thoughts in a less technical and (hopefully) more readable form.
Randy: Asbjorn shows us his vision of Atom/SSF. It's not simple enough for me. Remove the <id>, <created>, <issued> and drop relative URIs. In fact, I don't like the type attribute much either. Simplify, dude!
Why <id>? Be Web-centric. The <id> is the <link>, the URL. You want the entry, do a GET URL. You want to modify the entry, do a PUT URL. You want to delete the entry, do a DELETE URL.
The feed need no more than one date, to tell the consumer, if it has been changed, or not. The other dates can be embedded in the HTML, as per Ken's Particle Wave.
source quark.
Quote: I'm totally fed up with the RSS vs. ATOM debate, so I've decided to strike out on my own. Rather than putting all my hopes in a community effort to arrive at a standard syndication format that works better than ATOM or RSS, I'm creating a brand new format entirely on my own (you're welcome), and I think you're going to like it. I'm calling it "Another Simple Syndication".
Randy: RSS 3.0 move over.
source quark.
Here's another NFL prediction from the Real Geek of the NFL, w/ a 13-9 record against the spread this season.
- Cowboys (8-3) v. Dolphins (7-4) - The Fins have struggled to win the last 2 wks @ home against mediocre teams, were blown out three wks ago on the road and lost @ home 4 wks ago. Now they travel to Dallas to play a team that hasn't lost at home since Wk #1. The game breaker here is that Zach Thomas is coming off a concussion and is not expected to be 100%. The Boys (-3).
It's impossible to blog NYTimes.com. With levels of popups and forcing a logging, why would anyone blog an article from this site. Your readers would click on your <link> and quickly realize they have to add themselves to another SPAM list in order to read one article. The net affect, is that I don't blog any articles at NYTimes. Yet they seem aware of the power of blogs, as they have an agreement w/ Userland to produce a full set of RSS feeds.
I don't understand why sites continue to do the following things.
- Force registration thru a cookie.
- Popups - blockers are obviating them.
- Popunders - I don't get this at all.
- SPAM - this is becoming infuriating.
Is it that they don't have the creativity to place valuable ads on their Website? I guess it is. Google doesn't do these things and they are the talk of the Web.
Remote Access -- The new version of VSS will support remote access through firewalls via https.
Randy: Finally.
source Steve Clarke.
This is a cool feature offered by the NHL. Looks like they are trying to do something similar to Sportsline.com's GameCenter. Problem, doesn't work. I just get an ad and a big old white screen. I installed the latest SUN Java run-time and things now work. They are going to lose a lot of user's who don't take the time to read the FAQ, take one look at a big white screen and never return.
A great way to explain a boring process. Click to enlarge.
Source: Pirotcar
Joke: Several cannibals were recently hired by a big corporation. "You are all part of our team now," said the HR rep during the welcoming briefing. "You get all the usual benefits and you can go to the cafeteria for something to eat, but please don't eat any of the other employees." The cannibals promised. Four weeks later their boss remarked, "You're all working very hard, and I'm satisfied with you. However, one of our secretaries has disappeared. Do any of you know what happened to her?" The cannibals all shook their heads no. After the boss had left, the leader of the cannibals said to the others, "Which one of you idiots ate the secretary?" A hand raised hesitantly, to which the leader of the cannibals continued, "You fool! For four weeks we've been eating Managers and no one noticed anything, but noooooo, you had to go and eat the secretary!"
source Malakasis.
Norm Walsh: A while back, I offered some suggestions about what to do instead of escaping markup. Near the end of that essay, I challenged the folks that are in favor of escaped markup to build a feed for two HTML documents.
Randy: Trival. The question is "Does it matter, if I put the encoding in the declaration of the XML?"
By the way, tell me if I got anything incorrect, so that I may fix. I did this on a whim.
Quote: This is looking very promising. An XSLT stylesheet can extract RDF from a valid XHTML document.
Randy: Danny is the most sane of the RDF crew. Up there w/ Ken. Just extract the metadata from the data. I mean what is HTML meta data? It's the data in the HEAD element. Long live the semantic Web without RDF.
Quote: The SCO group is increasing its attacks on the Linux community, as CEO Darl McBride threatened last week to start suing enterprise Linux users within 90 days for copyright infringement.
Randy: The problem isn't SCO. The problem isn't IBM. The problem isn't Novell. The problem isn't enterprise Linux users. The problem is the turtle called U.S. Justice. One of two things are true.
- Linux stole code from SCO and are able to continue to operate behind the turtle.
- SCO is blowing hot air, thus able to enhance shareholder value and destroy Linux behind the turtle.
Quote: For ten years, the World Wide Web revolutionized our world by turning the Internet into the primary means of communicating information. Some of us are using the World Wide Web to read our morning news. Others are researching the Web to find out why their goldfish is under the weather. The simple quantity of information now available on the Web is moving our already information rich world to a new level.
Randy: I wrote this some 2 years past.
Thanks John for bringing it back to me.
Quote: A machine sent back in time to terminate Gray Davis and become GOVERNER of CALEEFORNIA.
source Lucius.
Quote: This morning it seems that sites who manage their blogrolls using blogrolling.com’s service had their links hijacked, every link being replaced by one to “Laura’s Blog” which predictably redirects to a porn site.
source Oleg.
Quote: Mats Sundin picked up a goal and an assist to help the Leafs defeat the Canucks, 2-1, Monday night at Air Canada Centre. It was the Leafs second straight victory over Canucks and third straight win at home. Sundin has 10 points in his last six games.
» Scoring | Statistics | Recap
» Leafs TV Video Highlights: 300K
I need to convert one small animated GIF to an AVI. If anybody would be so kind as to help me, then please Dude me.
Thanks to all that tried to help. Solution found!
A very pre-alpha social software site. Has some good ideas, but not useful yet. Here's my profile and FOAF.
source Marc.
Randy in PeopleAggregator FOAF format.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
xmlns:ns1="http://www.perceive.net/schemas/20021119/relationship/relationship.rdf#"
xmlns:ns2="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/">
<ns2:Person rdf:nodeID="bNode1">
<ns1:knowByRep rdf:nodeID="bNode2"/>
<ns1:knowByRep rdf:nodeID="bNode3"/>
<ns2:depiction rdf:resource="http://peopleaggregator.com/userfiles/d5adb6ad5c3245a3b68afd113b8c326f1846896008"/>
<ns2:homepage rdf:resource="http://www.kbcafe.com"/>
<ns2:mbox_sha1sum>9c1297dca68893172ad05ae762419e0df9190dbc</ns2:mbox_sha1sum>
<ns2:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:randy@kbcafe.com"/>
<ns2:msnChatID>randy@kbcafe.com</ns2:msnChatID>
<ns2:name>Randy Morin</ns2:name>
<ns2:nick>RV Dad</ns2:nick>
<ns2:schoolHomepage rdf:resource="http://cronus.uwindsor.ca/"/>
<ns2:title>Dude,</ns2:title>
<ns2:weblog rdf:resource="http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM"/>
<ns2:workplaceHomepage rdf:resource="http://www.duderesearch.com/"/>
</ns2:Person>
<ns2:Person rdf:nodeID="bNode2">
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://peopleaggregator.com/profile.php?id=3"/>
<ns2:mbox_sha1sum>ef38bb3ac2faeac7ef9bd581bb8d7009f0d571be</ns2:mbox_sha1sum>
</ns2:Person>
<ns2:Person rdf:nodeID="bNode3">
<rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://peopleaggregator.com/profile.php?id=23"/>
</ns2:Person>
</rdf:RDF>
I'm using Trillian again. A lot of people are telling me it's cool. I don't find it appealing, xcept the skins. You lose a lot of the great feel and features of MSN Messenger.
I'm on both MSN as randy@kbcafe.com and Yahoo! as randymorin@yahoo.com. I'm also on the #echo IRC channel.
Quite a few of the presentations from this year's PDC are now available in Microsoft Producer format. The nice thing is that you get videos from the demos integrated into the presentation as well. Very nice
source Alec Dude.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 6:35 PM
To: info@kbcafe.com
Subject: heh :)) article C#
Hiya Randy Charles Morin(I was not shure wich one of them is YOUR name so I'v written all three :)) ^_^
Thank you very much for your article at http://www.csharphelp.com/ site. You even can't imagine how difficult is it to find info on "How to donload file via HTTP using C#". I'v searched for three days! (few) thank's again good luck! ^_^ bye...
Randy: Thanks Alex.
Stay Tuned! Something amazing is about to happen.
source Alec Dude.
Quote: Playing in the NHL's first-ever outdoor hockey game in front of 57,167 fans, the Canadiens and Oilers made hockey history on Saturday night.
Randy: Perreault and Zednik each scored 2 goals in leading the Canadians to a 4-3 victory over the Oilers on an outside ice rink. Most impressive was Staios who scored one goal and added two assist, while horsing 28 minutes of ice-time in the losing cause. Montreal was outshot 37-23, but won on the back of a 34 save performance with a toque over the helmet. Check it Out!
Quote: People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.
Randy: The metacognitive ability to realize you are unskilled in some important areas and team w/ individuals skilled in those areas is key to running a successful organization.
- I asked the project manager, who was going to do the user interface design. The project manager answered, "me."
- An IT technie said to me, "If you think I'm good, then you'll really like this guy."
I have one reservation for the author's conclusion. I have witnessed that unskilled individuals will compensate for their weakness, as if to hide it. For example, they may lie or blame others for their failures.
- "Do you have that document?" Answer, "Yes, but why do you need it?" Answer, "Curiosity." Answer, "I don't have it on me. I'll get it to you later." Days later, "Do you have that document?" Answer, "I left it at home." And so on, never actually getting the document. Truth is, the document doesn't exist, but the individual compensates for his lack of skill by lying.
Joined today. Looks better than Friendster, but very slow. Popularity has outpaced demand again. It took a couple hours to get bored. Same-same. Build the largest network of friends and brag. Don't forget to check out some hot girl pics. Yawn!
Tried it! On several Mozilla browsers, including Firebird. Recent versions. It doesn't work!
source WysiWyki.
Randy: = Opencola.
source Alec.
Oleg: You have a great idea for a utility library that would help you complete your project at an XYZ Megabank much faster. Your manager does not understand it and hence refuses to allocate time for it. My advice -- start a project at SourceForge , pick an opensource license that does not restrict the rights of your employer (Apache is perfect), and build it on your spare time. Be ethical -- do not use your company time for this.
Randy: Work for free in your spare time! Fun!
Thanks for the concrete example. I think SSF has to be more Super Simple. FYI, Asbjørn and I discussed this at length over IM today. We couldn't find common ground.
I'd still rather simplify to the dream of SSF...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x.atom+xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.purl.org/atom#feed" version="1.0" xml:lang="en-us" >
<title>Asbjørns orange feed</title>
<summary>This is a collection of resources regarding oranges?</summary>
<link>http://www.example.com/asbjornu/weblog/</link>
<modified>2003-02-05T12:29:29Z</modified>
<author>
<name>Asbjørn Ulsberg</name>
<url>http://www.example.com/asbjornu/</url>
<email>mailto:asbjorn.ulsberg@example.com</email>
</author>
<resource link="http://www.example.com/asbjornu/weblog/archive/45.html" />
<resource link="http://www.example.com/asbjornu/weblog/archive/46.html" >
<title>My blog entry</title>
<modified>2003-02-05T12:29:29Z</modified>
</resource>
</feed>
- All resources must be URLs to Web resources, not Atom entries.
- No base URL, just tell me where the shit is, I don't have to write a routine to computer this.
- Optional modified date to inform clients that the resource was changed.
- Optional title for hint. Client can use this to describe the entry before it gets pulled.
- Tag name resource vs entry, I'm not partial either way.
This is so simple, that you could have a client up and running in zero time.
---------
API stuff
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I like ParticleWave.
- No business plan;
Randy: I often ask the CEO/President/VP for this information. I'm almost always disappointed. - Not enough sales;
Randy: Hire a decent sales staff please. - Growing too fast;
Randy: Speed Kills. - No cash deficiency safety nets;
Randy: Oops, the VC decided not to anti-up this Q. Lay everybody off. - No insurance;
Randy: Virus checking is a form of insurance. - Using payroll or sales tax money to pay bills;
Randy: Been there. - Bad debts / poor collections;
Randy: I wish. Bad debts are a sign of sales. - No financial information / budgets / tracking;
Randy: My biggest horror is the many budgets that expect sales to grow from zero to $gigazillion, next month. - Not adapting to industry change;
Randy: Not changing the industry. - No contingency plans / back up plan.
Randy: I've seen Source Safe fall over more than once in many organizations, leading to days of lost productivity and incomplete recovered data.
The struggle continues. It's been many days approaching weeks since Technorati gave KBCafe a result page without errors. Looks like Technorati's popularity has out paced its technology.
source Sifry's Alerts.
Quote: It seems almost all of these services are just racing to see who can get the most users and offer the largest number of people in your network. I signed up for Friendster a while back and have seen my network accumulate ungodly amounts of random people who I could really care less to network with. Is their 4 degrees of separation much different from the 6 degrees offered by the non existent SixDegrees.com? Network expansion beyond 3 levels of contacts creates too much distance, which greatly belittles any common connection.
Maybe not. But I've been there 6 days this month. First time I've been away from my family for more than a couple days in any month since I married my wife more than 9 years ago.
Stayed at the New Yorker. Watched the Empire State Building as I fell asleep. Ate at Fridays. Ate 3 times at Tick Tock.
Heineken sucks. I would've taken the girl.
source Malakasis.
Some 3-4 years ago, I setup an account at CBS Marketwatch. They still send me 2-3 SPAMs per day. I've tried several times to unsubscribe and even delete my account over these many years. Nothing works. They continue their SPAM bashing of my account. Beyond that their Website is a big ad. New method.
Blacklist.Add("cbs.marketwatch.com");
Quote: Toronto-based Dexit Inc. (a company in which I have a personal investment), launched a key fob system seven weeks ago. It now has almost 100 merchants in its network, mainly in the underground malls of Bay Street. The company hopes to expand quickly across Toronto over the next few months, then across the country. Though it has partnerships with TD Bank, National Bank and Telus Mobility, Dexit is an independent startup. So consumers must agree to keep a balance -- between $20 and $100 -- in a Dexit account.
source RVDad.
Quote: The Santa Barbara District Attorney's office refused Wednesday to comment on reports that a warrant for Michael Jackson's arrest has been issued. CNN, NBC and Court TV have all reported that police are seeking the pop icon's arrest.
Randy: No comment!
Commentary: Kasparov kept things closed up tight. He would never want to open up the game when X3D Fritz's power of calculation could be decisive. The machine made useless move after useless move with its pieces, never touching its pawns at all. Kasparov easily warded off the occasional threat while consolidating his forces on the queenside. By the time he evacuated his king to safety "it was all over" according to Kasparov.
As the commentators – and Kasparov – had foreseen early on, White slowly but surely advanced on the queenside and only crashed through when his forces were at their maximum power. He had no need to hurry since X3D Fritz had no idea it was even in danger and continued to shuffle aimlessly on the other side of the board. Almost to the end its evaluation of the game gave White only a tiny plus score. This while all the Grandmasters had long since buried the poor silicon warrior.
Randy: Game four was a stalemate and the four game match was a draw.
be back Thursday night. The trick is for me to blog something on Wednesday. Just anything. I'll be a bit busy, maybe I'll just blog a hello. I was working on a .NET-less Sushibar last night. Version 4.0. Version 1.0 and 2.0 were .NET-less. I'll be finished by Friday night, I'm working on style right now. Last, I'm flying to NYC, not driving (like last time).
Goals
- Central Park.
- Take the subway.
- Some pics this time.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Nov. 17, 2003 --Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of a royalty-free licensing program for its Microsoft® Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas and accompanying documentation.
Randy: Can you say XML Schema is everywhere? No.
President George Bush was in the Oval Office wondering which country to invade next, when his telephone rang."Hallo, President Bush?" a heavily accented voice said. Dis is Archie, up ere at da Harp Seal Pub in Badger's Cove, Newfoundland, Canada eh? I am callin' to tell ya's dat we're officially declarin war on ya eh!" Well Archie," George replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?" "Right now," said Archie, after a moments calculation "Dere's myself, ma cousin Harold, da next-door-neighbor Mick, and da whole dart team from da pub. Dat makes eight eh!" George paused. "I must tell you Archie, that I have one million men in my army waiting to move on my command." "Holy jeezus," said Archie. "I'll have ta call ya back eh!"
Sure enough, the next day, Archie called again. "Mr. Bush, da war's still on eh! We managed ta gadder some infantry equipment by golly!" "And what equipment would that be Archie", George asked. "Well sir, we got two combines, a dozer, and Harry's farm tractor." President Bush sighed. "I must tell you Archie, that I have 16,000 Tanks and 14,000 armored personnel carriers. I've also increased my army to one and a half million since we last spoke." "Lard T'underin' Jaysus, boy", said Archie, "I'll be gettin back ta ya eh!"
Sure enough, Archie rang again the next day. "President Bush, da war's still on! We managed to git ourselves airborne eh! We up an' modified Harrigan's ultra-light wit a couple a shotguns in da cockpit, and four boys from da Legion have joined us as well eh!" George was silent for a minute then cleared his throat. "I must tell you Archie that I have 10,000 bombers and 20,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to TWO MILLION!" "Jehsus, Mary and Joseph," said Archie,"I'll have ta call ya back."
Sure enough, Archie called again the next day. "President Bush! I am sorry ta have ta tell ya dat we have had ta call off dis war eh!." "I'm sorry to hear that" said George. "Why the sudden change of heart?" "Well, sir," said Archie, "we all sat ourselves down an had a long chat over a bunch a pints and come ta realize dat dere's no way we can feed two million prisoners."
Quote: "It feels great to post a profitable quarter with positive operating cash flow. It's the culmination of a lot of hard work and dedication on the part of the Lucent team," said Lucent Technologies Chairman and CEO Patricia Russo. "At this point, we have essentially completed our restructuring initiatives [cut]"
Randy: This is really starting to feel like 1999. Lucent's in the black and jobs are a plenty.
source Poindexter.
Sounds like another trip to NYC is on the agenda.
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source BenHui.net.
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| Dilbert by Scott Adams | http://dwlt.net/tapestry/dilbert.rdf | 2003-06-06 |
source Pirotcar.
Cut from the article.
- The Longhorn suite will be a worthwhile investment.
- Longhorn will not drive customer dependence on Microsoft products.
- Longhorn will provide a better alternative to Java.
- Longhorn will not require a multitude of customer upgrades to implement.
- Longhorn will support open standards.
Randy: Let the Wronghorn bashing begin. The author says, "Longhorn is yet another Windows wolf dressed up in sheep's clothing." Microsoft's wolf has 95% of the market.
source Scoble.
Quote: The Do Not Contact Service enables individuals to reduce the number of marketing offers they receive by mail and telephone. Consumers register to have their names removed from marketing lists held by members of the Canadian Marketing Association. CMA members, who account for about 80 percent of direct response sales in Canada, want to present offers only to those consumers interested in their products and services and are happy to comply with requests for name removal.
Randy: Click Register. Access is denied. Apparently, I have been denied the right not to get SPAMmed. Once again.
The question was asked "Why is Microsoft interested in killing the Web browser and not the Web in general?" The answer is "The Office Desktop Platform." Microsoft essential makes money on two products and loses money on everything else. Those two products are...
- Office
- Windows
The reason they make money is because they are essentially a tax on the office worker. Who, out there, doesn't or hasn't been assigned an Intel computer, running Windows w/ Office installed? If you answered "yeah", then you're more likely a line worker, than a Mac-Unix user. Effectively, Microsoft taxes each and every office worker wor(l)d-wide for both Windows and Office. That's the office Desktop Platform of choice. What could threaten that platform?
- Web browser - What if you could edit rich documents in a browser?
- Java - Star/Open Office.
- Macromedia
- Real
- Quicktime
Imagine if someone sued M$FT over a tag in HTML. If M$FT were forced to obsolete the current way the tag works, then they would deal an even blow to all five platforms above. Thus furthering their dominance. You think they would intentially lose? Thus forcing the W3 to take the reigns and fight this highly hypothetical legal battle on their behalf? How much would such an increasingly more hypothetical lawsuit be worth to M$FT? $500m?
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The estimated population of the United States is 292,540,066. So each citizen's share of this debt is $23,527.89.
Scoble: Just cause Instant Messaging uses TCP/IP protocols, does that make it Web technologies?
Randy: TCP/IP is the protocol of the Internet, not the Web. The protocol of the Web is HTTP. HTTP is, of course, implemented over TCP/IP. If your app uses TCP/IP, then it's an Internet application. Instant Messaging is an Internet application, not a Web application.
Scoble: Most users see the Web as everything that comes to their browser.
Randy: Most users are then wrong. Web services don't always come to the browser (although most can be made to come to the browser) and it would be difficult to argue that Web services are not Web. The Web is about many agents, not just browsers. This is obvious from the Web Architecture which speaks of many agents; browser, servers, spiders and proxies.
Scoble: By the way, average users don't think RSS is the Web.
Randy: They would be partially correct. RSS is a file format, like Word. I can argue that RSS (i.e. XML) is more Web than Word. But RSS readers pull RSS files over HTTP (the Web) and RSS over HTTP is definately a Web service. Is RSS a Web services? I think so!
Forgetting all these semantic difference, Scoble is 100% correct. Winer has done more to kill the Web browser than Microsoft. Microsoft tried to make Web services popular w/ SOAP. Web services can bring Web content to the desktop within a Windows (.NET whatever) UI. SOAP has failed to produce these consumer Web services (although Longhorn is looking good to solve this). Winer's RSS, on the other hand, is the first and only successful consumer Web service. Now we surf the Web from Outlook, not IE. Win M$FT!
I haven't been to a game yet. I missed Jason Spezza, Raffi Torres and Rostislav Klesla, to name a few x-Battalion. They've only been around a few years. Maybe later this year.
Per capita, this has got to be the longest parade in the world. About 25% of the kids left or fell asleep before Santa ever made his rounds. Every business in Brampton must have had a float. Hansen Towing Service had a half dozen plus floats, as I remember. Our mayor Susan Fennell and the city council both had floats near the beginning. Add this to the fact that the parade is in the evening and ends slightly before 8PM and you have a lot of cold kids who want to go home. At night, fine. Three hours long, fine. Just not both please. And thanks, my kids are debating whether Santa was a robot. My 5 month-old daughter woke up just in time to see Santa for her first time.
Best Floats were, w/ help from my 3 year-old son and 5 month-old daughter.
- Breaking Funny Car
- Santa Claus
- Letters to Santa
- Battalion
- Baton Twirlers
- Fire Trucks
- Santa's Bus (regular school bus dressed as Rudolph)
- Shriner's
- Mickey & Minny Mouse
- 2 Batmans & 2 Supergirls
Later that night we ate Dim Sum at a new restaurant on the SE corner of Kennedy and Clarence (just off the parade route). Hell if I can remember the name. Twas good. Just opened this last summer.
Quote: Signalling a major change in White House policy, the US-led occupation authority is preparing to speed up the transfer of power back to Iraqis amid rising attacks on its forces. The US occupation administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, is holding talks in Baghdad on Saturday to speed up the restoration of independence – as early as June according to US media reports.
Randy: Can you say election policy? Wouldn't want the soldiers paying for W's mistakes during the campaign. That would cost votes. But post election, he won't be accountable to anyone and can continue his cannon fodder strategy.
Down 4-1 at the end of 2 periods, my daughter asked if she could watch cartoons. Yes, it was past midnight and the five-year-old convinced me to miss a great comeback. The Leafs have looked horrible this year and are above par. Imagine if this team started playing well. | |
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Jupiter, our solar system's most massive planet, has been captured in the most detailed global color view ever seen, courtesy of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini acquired the view during its closet approach to the gas giant while en route to its final destination, Saturn.
The Jupiter portrait is available at the JPL photojournal at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04866 and at the Cassini Imaging Team's website at http://ciclops.org.
ISTANBUL -- Car bombs exploded outside two synagogues in Istanbul at almost the same time Saturday, killing at least 20 and injuring more than 257, top Turkish ministers said.
Randy: The violence seems to be spreading. That's not a good sign.
Locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
Between 1984 and 1986 he registered more than 400 penalty minutes each year (if you include the playoffs). He scored 17 goals (including playoffs) in 1984, 20 in 1986 and 23 in 1985.
Danko Jones:
This Toronto-based rock band is best known for their amazing live shows. They have toured extensively in Europe where they have developed a very loyal following. Their latest record is called "Born a Lion". Their videos include "Soul On Ice" and "Lovercall". 
Watch their version of the Silver Cup
For concert dates and more information, visit them online at: www.dankojones.com
My predictions. I'm 8-8 on the season.
- Chiefs (9-0) v. Bengals (4-5) - Bengals are not 6.5 point underdogs at home. They've only lost by more than 7 once all season. Mind you, the Chiefs usually win big. Bengals (+6.5).
- Skins (4-5) v. Panthers (7-2) - Panthers have struggled to put away opponents and have only won by more than six once. Panthers are good, nut not 7-2 good. Skins are mediocre, not bad and I'll take the points. Skins (+6).
- Cowboys (7-2) v. Pats (7-2) - Pats are on fire. Pats (-4).
- Giants (4-5) v. Eagles (6-3) - Eagles are 6-1 since the bye week. Eagles (-3.5).
- Pack (4-5) v. Bucs (4-5) - The Bucs won the Super Bowl remember. Bucs (-4).
- Rams (6-3) v. Bears (3-6) - Bears have only lost 1 @ home. Rams have only won 1 on the road. Bears (+6) @ home? Thanks.
odds from Covers.
724 Research
SCO's revenues have increased nearly 6000% over the last five years.
PayoffsRevenue from founders (M$FT) and shareholders (SUNW)to remove Linux threat- $13m.- As a percentage of last 4 trailing Qs - 20%.
- Number of warrants owned by Sun at $1.83 exercise price - 200k.
- 52 high - $22.29.
- Unaccounted future revenues from IBM - $1b.
- More research on SCO.
This one is for Oleg.
Quote: Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between the SCO Group and IBM, as both companies try to buttress their legal claims by turning to third parties for information.
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source Smartpatrol.
Quote: For StarTrek fans we tested the USS Enterprise in our super-orbital expansion tube - X2. A scale model was placed in the test section and the facility used to generate a high speed gas flow of around 6.6 km/s. This was passed over the Enterprise for a duration of approximately 100 microseconds. We perform similar tests on other models investigating dissociation and ionisation processes which occur during atmospheric re-entry.
source RV Dad.
Quote: After the game an emotional Kasparov acknowledged that this is exactly the problem with facing a beast like X3D Fritz. It may not play perfectly, and in fact had missed its best chances, but it never made a serious mistake. On the other hand a human, even Garry Kasparov, is vulnerable to oversights that the computer will punish instantly.
Me: X3D leads 1.5 to 0.5 w/ only 2 games remaining.
source RV Dad.
If you read articles at Forbes.com (from Google News), then they will ask you to install a news alert control. They also popup ads left and right. New function.
Blacklist.Add("forbes.com");
If you have the old Dudebar, then don't install the new Sushibar and then uninstall the old Dudebar. If you want to uninstall the old Dudebar, then please do so before you install the new Sushibar. Otherwise, you'll have to uninstall Sushibar and re-install it again.
source Dude Research.
I think I moved a bit away from SOAP and towards REST today. I'm on the fence. The is hard for most people grasp, but the REST/SOAP thing is similar to the WIFI/Bluetooth IMO. Why do we need both? REST is like UI, SOAP is like APP. WIFI is like high-power (APP). Bluetooth is like low-power (UI). By the way, XML-RPC, goodbye. My transition happened when I thought about why would I POST when I mean DELETE. Is POST new? Is PUT edit? I don't appreciate this bitsko.
Is Microsoft killing the Web?
Me: I don't think Microsoft is killing the Web. They are enhancing it w/ Web services. But killing the Web browser? Yes, they are killing the Web browser. I wish everything worked from my browser. Scoble, can you get VS.NET to work in my browser?
This is funny! Read the whole story.
source BoingBoing. Cory, you are the greatest source of entertainment in the world.
Dan: Steve, did you hear about John and Ken?
Steve: I heard John is contributing a lot of code to the Linux Kernel.
Dan: Both are still looking for work all these months after the layoff.
Steve: Ken is working on the GNU compiler.
Dan: I hate this company for laying them off.
Steve: They were such great programmers too!
Dan: Have you replaced the kernel written by John with the Linux kernel yet?
Steve: Yes. I love open source. I also reorged Ken's build to use the GNU compiler.
I got an email lately that asked, "I would like to ask if I may use a porting of your class for a GPL project?" A NO was followed by, "Why do you think GPL is no good?" A lot of people hate me for my anti-GPL beliefs, even some of my unemployed friends.
Demand and Supply. As the supply of free-code increases, the demand for paid-code decreases. Why would I pay for something that I otherwise can get for free? Of course, this argument will be refuted. Ignorance leads to blindness. Or is it the other way around?
Ozzie on 906. By the way, when did M$FT become the good guy that everybody is pulling for?
source Scobleizer.
Quote: Red Hat Linux maintenance and errata support is ending April 30, 2004.
Thanks for helping us grow our company, but now that we're successful FU. Hey, we're doing nothing new that M$FT hasn't done before.
Me: Exactly.
Quote: XML format is open and backed up by an XSD.
It's no wonder M$FT wins. They get it. In the meanwhile, I struggle to convince some that XSD is worth it, even if imperfect.
Access the Corporations Canada Online Filing Centre in order to file various documents directly online (such as incorporation, annual returns, notice of change of address/director, etc.) Information about the online filing process can be accessed through the Information on Online Incorporation document. Before incorporating, please consult the Choosing a Name section of this site.
- Removed the trojan that scans the Valve network for Half-Life 2 source code.
- Removed
sublimanulsubliminal message to convince Schwarzenegger to run for governor (it was a joke, I'm sorry). - Removed horrible bug that caused computers to spontaneously blow up.
- Changed name from Dudebar to Sushibar.
- Increased version number by 1/10th of one unit.
Quote: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ordered a reexamination of the controversial '906 browser patent, handing a crucial victory to Microsoft and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The next version of the Dudebar will be named the Sushibar. ETA is today! Any pre-beta testers should raise their hands and send me an dudemail.
source DudeResearch.
Found/removed by AVG. Can't seem to find anything about it. Any help would be much appreciate. My first virus since the 80s.
Further research revealed this is not a virus, but rather it's a vulnerability that AVG kindly patched before someone took advantage of it. Thanks Lucius!
<def:Code><![CDATA[
Shared Sub Main()
'{
System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, world")' ;
'}
End Sub
]]></def:Code>
Howard Dean's b-day bash. Hoping for 555 locations and raise $555 per location. It's amazing how small numbers multiply out to bigger numbers ($250k).
and more from thestrapons. They could've picked a better name. Here's some suggestions; thedildos, thecondoms and thevibrators. Any other suggestions? By the way, they play decent music.
More so, this is a reflection on my career.
by John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
source Jay Solo.
Reponses to Clay Shirky's claim that the Semantic Web will happen with XML and RDF is unnecessary complexity.
- XMLvRDF by Ken
- Syllogism by Sam
- I Said It First by Joe
- Metadata, Semantics and All That by Tim
- Scripting News
- your SW piece by DanBri
but the best yet is still Evil John's summary.
MHO is that technologies have a half-life. If the technology, no matter how cool, cannot be widely adopted before it's half-life, then it's cannon fodder. Example: VRML. The first time I was RDFed was more than 5 years ago. I was told that RDF wasn't there today, but that it would be awesome in 2 years time. Five years later, we are still 2 years away from the power of RDF. Half-life over!
This is a call for product. Give me an easy to use personal firewall. This firewall blocks all traffic out of the box, except a handful of well-known and popular kids Websites. Then I get to add Websites requested by my daughter. No email, just Webmail. And the Webmail doesn't allow attachments.
Hmmm! I could install it on the presidents desktop :)
A few years back, I had a problem w/ employees surfing porn at work. I sent emails to everybody that porn surfing was not allowed. That didn't help. I started blocking the addresses at the firewall, but you can't block them all. Eventually, I dug into the proxy logs to find out which employees were at fault. Twas the president of the company.
Dear Mr. Ken Dryden:
We the undersigned believe that as a respected bilingual lawyer, corporate leader, public policy champion, and Canadian icon, you are a perfect choice to lead the new Conservative Party of Canada.
We respectfully request that, when the time comes, you submit your name as a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Sincerely,
me: iM #116.
and officially retired.
Oleg on Mozilla Firebird.
Last year, the Leafs won a lot of games on Belfour's shoulders. You might remember that Toronto rarely won games last season where they outshot their opponents, particular early in the season. This year, they are actually out playing opponents from time-to-time.
- The Leafs outshot the Canadians 25-15 for a 1-0 win.
- The Leafs outshot the Stars 24-16 for a 3-1 win.
- The Leafs outshot the Pens 38-24 for 4-2 win.
Last night, the Leafs outplayed the Oilers for the first 2 periods. A defensive shell made it interesting in the first half of the third period. But they calm the fort and dominated the last 10 minutes on their way to a 4-1 win.
Notes
- Klee (+5 and 7 pts) has been more than anybody expected.
- Berg is +7 on a team that post mostly minuses.
- Jackman has struggled after a confident start.
- McCabe has looked great leading the power play (9 pts in 8 games).
- The Leafs don't have a problem on the blueline; McCabe, Kaberle, Berg, Klee, Jackman, Marchment, Pilar).
- Stajan is putting up numbers (+5 and 5 pts) with very limited ice-time. He looks odd when the other team puts the body on him, but he bounced back quickly.
- Belak has good skill, but he's got to learn to stay out of the penalty box.
- Any bets CuJo wishes he were somewhere else?
Quote: "Sending Mr. Arar to Canada, as a practical matter, meant setting him free..."
Me: Freedom is north of the border.
Quote: Much of the proposed value of the Semantic Web is coming, but it is not coming because of the Semantic Web. The amount of meta-data we generate is increasing dramatically, and it is being exposed for consumption by machines as well as, or instead of, people. But it is being designed a bit at a time, out of self-interest and without regard for global ontology. It is also being adopted piecemeal, and it will bring with it with all the incompatibilities and complexities that implies. There are significant disadvantages to this process relative to the shining vision of the Semantic Web, but the big advantage of this bottom-up design and adoption is that it is actually working now.
Humans are mortal
Greeks are human
Therefore, Greeks are mortal
Shirky is not Greek
Therefore Shirky is immortal
source Smartpatrol.
The Toronto Maple Leafs will not only face the Edmonton Oilers at this Saturday’s home game, they will also lead a fight against breast cancer. The Maple Leafs have partnered with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation to increase awareness about the disease and raise money for research in an evening and game with a pink ribbon theme. The Toronto Maple Leafs will wear exclusive pink ribbon game helmets, which will be auctioned with all proceeds going to breast cancer research. Also up for auction will be Don Cherry’s pink jacket and Ron MacLean's pink neck tie, which will be worn during Saturday night’s national Hockey Night in Canada telecast.
Quote: An advisory released Friday by the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh said the embassy "continues to receive credible information that terrorists in Saudi Arabia have moved from the planning to operational phase of planned attacks in the kingdom."
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Quote: I am here today to tell the people of Canada what has happened to me.There have been many allegations made about me in the media, all of them by people who refuse to be named or come forward. So before I tell you who I am and what happened to me, I will tell you who I am not.I am not a terrorist. I am not a member of al-Qaeda and I do not know anyone who belongs to this group. All I know about al-Qaeda is what I have seen in the media. I have never been to Afghanistan. I have never been anywhere near Afghanistan and I do not have any desire to ever go to Afghanistan.
Me: I saw the Statue of Liberty last week. I could barely see her thru the fog.
Don't watch this in front of the children. Not being a resident of the UK, I have never seen it myself :)
I don't think people really understand what is wrong w/ Macromedia. The problem is that it doesn't follow the Web architecture. That aside, it's a great technology that produces great looks. Because it is not URI driven. I cannot bookmark a Flash page. That's the problem.
Solution: Fake it out! Do what you do, but do it within the Web architecture.
Quote: I hereby apologize to all blog owners whose blogware uses JavaScript pop-ups to open their comments: I've not read your comments and I won't be commenting on your entry.
Me: Right on! This behavior originates with Radio. Radio implemented comments very badly. In fact, when I had a Radio blog, I had to disable comments because it caused my blog to load in 2 minutes, instead of 2 seconds. Judging by the exodus of Userland's CEO and President, I doubt that their comments will be getting any better any time soon.
There seems to be a building animosity between the Atom clan and W3 Web services clan. Matt Powell recently posted that Sam (more likely a shot at Atom) has left the world of Web services as we know it. I think it's true that Atom has left the world of W3 services, which is a shame, but only a narrow definition of Web services would exclude Atom and RSS. My own opinion is the RSS is that most popular Web services on the Net. No WSDL. No SOAP. No XML-RPC. No REST. Just XML.
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If you want to build up trust from your coworkers, then be trustworthy.
trust = f(trustworthiness)
source Marc's Voice, Scoble.
Dare tells us how to lower bandwidth cost for RSS.
Economic Left/Right: -3.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.44
source Scripting.
Quote: On Saturday, Nov. 8th, the full moon will glide through our planet's shadow. Observers on every continent except Australia can see the event, which astronomers call a lunar eclipse.
Sky watchers will first notice a shadowy darkness creeping over the moon's northeastern limb at 23:32 Universal Time (UT) on Nov. 8th. Watching Earth's shadow sweep across the moon's terrain is fun. Even better is totality, when the entire moon is covered in shadow. Totality begins at 01:06 UT on Nov. 9th and lasts for 25 minutes. (Note: the table below converts UT to US standard time zones.)
Note on my adsense banners.
- My click-thru rate has dropped over 60% in the last month.
- My earnings per click has dropped over 90% in the last month.
Can you say gimmick! I think I'll be removing those banners next time I revamp the blog.
This was likely the craziest week since I started blogging.
- Thursday (Oct 30th) - I realized that a project I was working on was in a Death Spiral. Actually, I thought this was true a few days earlier, but only confirmed it that day. Later that night, I met up with some friends to work on a new business and we partied till 2AM, when I returned to work.
- Friday - I didn't sleep Thursday night and worked thru the night and day. I was desparately trying to save the project, but to no avail. That night was Halloween and I handed out candy. I finally fell asleep around 10PM, some 36 hours after I woke up.
- Monday - Drove in the morning to Kingston to meet up with some friends. We then drove to NYC and arrived some 13 hours after I left home. We partied that night at an Ad:Tech conference party and walked around drunk at Times Square till 2AM.
- Tuesday - Visited NYC all day. Battery park (saw Lady Liberty). WTC. Wall Street. U.S.S. Intrepid. Then a presentation and finally out to dinner to discuss new business.
- Wednesday - Drove home via Kingston. One of us got a speeding ticket. 12 hours after leaving NYC and I was home again.
- Thursday - Another bad day at work :(
Quote: This document is an ongoing attempt to describe the properties we desire of the Web and the design choices that have been made to achieve them. This document promotes re-use of existing standards when suitable, and gives guidance on how to innovate in a manner consistent with the Web architecture.
Quote: why is it locked in a syndication feed for use pretty much only by syndication clients?
Me: RSS files typically only include the last x entries. The meta information in those feeds only exist for the last x entries. What about the older stuff? Ken's onto something.
Discussion over on Sam's blog.
I once worked along side a manager who was clearly in deep over his capabilities. To compensate, the manager only hired individuals with less skill than himself. His department became the laughing stock of the company, but he was able to hang onto a good salary for two years. I wonder, had he hired great employees, would he had done any better or worse? I find it wrong when managers do this, but how can I blame him? I've also witnessed manager who will hire individuals better than themselves, but then make it impossible for him to succeed in order to maintain control. Again, it's wrong, but can you blame him? Yes!
From: Ken MacLeod
Date: 01 Nov 2003 18:57:06 -0600
List-archive: <http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/>
I've drafted an alternate Atom API proposal based on my recent messages: Particle Wave.
http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/ParticleWave
Particle Wave doesn't define an API at all, per se, instead focusing on best practices of web architecture[1] and existing, common formats to allow any web-savvy tool to maintain an Atom site while allowing Atom-enabled clients and servers to provide enhanced features for episodic websites in particular.
-- Ken
My predictions. I'm 7-6 on the season, but after last week's 5-1 success, I'm due for a bad week.
- Colts (6-1) v. Fins (5-2). Don't get me wrong, Griese is a better quarterback than Fiedler. I always hated Fiedler's panzy passes. A QB that can throw down field can only help the Fins. But Griese isn't playing the Chargers this week. The Colts game plan will be the typical stop Ricky 7-8 men on the line and make Griese beat you. The Fins will have trouble stopping James, Harrison and Peyton. Take the Colts +3.
- Packers (3-4) v. Vikes (6-1). I think these two teams are evenly matched. But, the game is in Minni and that means there's a 50-50 chance that the Vikes are going to romp the Packs pathetic pass defense. Take the Vikes -4.5.
- Pats (6-2) v. Broncs (5-3). Midway thru last weeks 4thQ in Baltimore, the Broncs trailed by only 3 points. Kanell threw 2 picks and fumbled the ball, all in the 2nd half of the 4thQ. He's no Elway, but he deserves a better line this week. Take Broncs -2.5.
 Developer Fusion published another one of my articles. Thanks James. |
See Perpetual Motion, an award-winning animation by Kimberly Miner, a first-year Film and Animation student. Windows Media Player. Real Player (Recommended for Mac).
source ptalk.
Sydney, Australia — Prosecutors told a court Friday that a man charged with theft and fraud swindled the equivalent of $4.5-million (Canadian) out of hundreds of victims who believed they could claim some of the Nigerian president's foreign assets. Nick Marinellis, 39, appeared briefly in a court in the city of Dubbo Friday after he was arrested in the nearby town of Nyngan on Thursday; he did not enter a plea to 17 charges of theft and fraud. It was not immediately clear what sentence he faced if convicted.