February 28, 2003
Another Iraqi voice
From The Australian: The case of Iraq is like an abstract painting, everyone sees what they wish to see. Also...
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Foaf ownership?
Daniel Krech (eikon) made a suggestion in IRC that one could add an rdfs:isDefinedBy in their foaf to help solidify...
foaf cop?
Foaf really needs a policeman of sorts. Something to walk over foafspace and do some validating steps. There are several...
Offline caching? CDF had it five years ago
I continue to be impressed with how well Microsoft designed the CDF format. Even making use of link tags for...
February 27, 2003
Profile assistant?
Internet Explorer has a really handy feature called the Profile Assistant. Basically it's a user controlled way to have you...
Dead outnumber the living?
Heh, it appears some toolkits the produce RSS are really starting to lose users. One even has more feeds dead,...
February 26, 2003
Voice of Iraqis
Why don’t antiwar types want to hear them? http://www.nationalreview.com...
February 25, 2003
Who's in charge?
Ask yourself, who's in charge of what you know? Then ask, how do you decide who it is? We'd like...
Censorship is alive and well
What do you call a Frenchman advancing on Baghdad? A salesman Apparently the BBC believes censorship is a good thing....
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Know your geography
Turns out this isn't true but it's interesting nonetheless: Secretary of State Colin Powell recently was approached by an Iraqi...
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February 24, 2003
Is your computer spying on you?
There's a ton of software out there that when added to your computer helps others spy on how you use...
readlink
I'm genuinely surprised the OpenBSD readlink utility isn't part of more distributions. It does the very simple job of returning...
Caching is a good thing
I'm really surprised at the stink some folks are making over newsreaders working to cache HTML pages. What's the problem...
February 23, 2003
Schema
When using RSS and RDF it's possible to add information using modules and schemas. I've created a few schema. Here's...
Gotta love Edward Gorey
Which Edward Gorey Book Are You?...
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February 21, 2003
MS aquires Connectix
Microsoft has acquired Connectix....
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February 19, 2003
FCC action
If you're at all worried that the telcos are going to act in ways that futher harm DSL and other...
February 18, 2003
s'no fun
Ah yes, the days of misspent youth. I miss snow storms and bumper rides up to Jerry's Belvedere. When there...
Keeping in sync
For anyone that runs multiple web sites you know what an adventure it can be to keep everything in sync....
Budget reports
There's a number of people on some mailing lists I read that seem to have their heads so far up...
February 16, 2003
Exporting free speech?
To paraphrase Justice Brandeis, the cure to bad speech is more free speech. To that end Project Gutenberg is a...
Think fast
A timeline of the last signals from the Columbia shuttle. It's appears the last 6 minutes weren't looking too good....
February 15, 2003
Be careful what you wish for...
I'm personally rather disgusted with the anti-American bullshit being tossed around lately. It seem some rather ill-informed, or just plain...
February 14, 2003
What, me worry?
With all the hype and scare stories running about on terrorism, and possible Chem/Bio warfare, allow me to pass to you a nice little nugget of REAL information.
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February 13, 2003
Per-user and per-feed tracking?
I've been noodling over this idea for a while. What we need it an interchange format that allows swapping data...
Think XP is just 2k with pictures?
For those that think Windows XP is just Windows 2000 with a different UI, read this. There's a lot more...
Kid religious humor
Some stuff just makes me laugh out loud. This one's pretty funny: One particular four-year-old prayed, "And forgive us our...
February 12, 2003
xml-dev perma-threads
....sigh... the xml-dev mailing list seems to be stuck in broken record mode. They're once again back beating the dead...
How to get better addresses in feeds?
There's one aspect of RSS that confounds me. How to get in contact with the authors of the feeds. That...
Bandwidth
There have been many times over the years I've used the saying: "What's the fastest way to get a gigabyte...
Concerned about geographic privacy?
Are you at all concerned about your location being exposed when using network devices? Then take the geoprivacy survey....
February 09, 2003
Quantum Data
I've had this saying for years, I call it 'quantum data'. It's based on the idea of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle...
February 08, 2003
Template for Newzcrawler
For anyone using Newzcrawler, I created a new 'daily newspaper' template for it. Unpack this zip archive into in the...
The exodus continues...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0104813/http://radio.weblogs.com/0105852/ I've created an exporter tool for anyone moving to MovableType. If other export formats are need, let me know...
February 07, 2003
Well, vote next time, you idiots!
All I can say is every sonofabitch that whines about the recent presidential election better DAMN WELL get out and...
Taking aim at Radio
Sam Ruby: Radio vs Syndirella I've a few thoughts on this......
February 06, 2003
Hacking time
please,oh please,oh please, tell me the time servers weren't compromised. All HELL would break loose if time got hacked.
February 04, 2003
Being hyper informed is not a convenience
It's 5:00. Do you know what your Google results are? (Google Weblog) Having all the answers doesn't mean you know...
No reporters on Star Trek?
Greg Elin sent me this zinger in an e-mail:I've always been intrigued by the fact that the original Star Trek...
Watch who dismisses what
Take a look at who's saying what is or isn't possible or practical. Then take a hard look at their...
February 03, 2003
Mail to blog ain't gonna cut it
I'm seeing a bunch of folks experimenting with mail to blog sort of functionality. I hate to break it to...
Me and my digital shadow
Where's my digital concierge? Where's the thing that shadows me as I travel about from one online resource to another?...
February 02, 2003
Cutting off the meta nose to spite the meta face?
It seems the people afraid of what abuses could be done with metadata are continuing to think it's pointless to...
February 01, 2003
Challenge and Response
Is there a way to sign items in RSS feeds or HTML pages such that something that cared could challenge...
Qt and KDE from source
Ever tried compiling Qt and KDE completely from scratch? It's unbelieeeeeevably slow. Granted this is on an geezed out dual...
Shuttle disaster?
Yoikes! The space shuttle just blew up on re-entry! This is bad, but as things go the shuttle's been amazingly...
Local influence
Jay Allen comments on his being near Xupiter. As more geographic stuff gets added to net activities hopefully we'll be...
Console trickery
I've been noodling around for ages with using various machines for home and A/V automation. My consensus is most software...
Spyware killer
PepiMK Software has created Spybot - Search & Destroy. It works its way through your machine and helps remove those...
Console fonts
Ever tried fiddling with the font size and character sets on a linux console? I'm surprised this is such a...
