August 9, 2003
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Jon Udell wrote

Shouldn't we then substitute XML for RSS 2.0 in that sentence, and say there is no consistent way to interpret material from other namespaces in any XML document, period?
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August 5, 2003
@ 12:58 AM

I just picked up Three Six Mafia's latest album, Da Unbreakables. There is a collaboration with Lil' Flip about riding in a car with spinners which reminds me that I need to start looking to see what it would cost to put some rims on the car. Anyone know any good stores in the Puget Sound Area?

Randomness below on Phil Ringnalda's post about the fact that in the blogosphere there is no they and some pet peeves.

 


 

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As promised to some folks last week, below are my comments on the most recent version of the Atom API which is part of PieEchoNechoAtomThe Project With No Name.

 


 

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Every day I think social interaction the InterWeb can't get any lamer someone throws a surprise my way. The newest surprise thrown my way is Friendster. I can just imagine the meeting where they came up with the name, "Dude! Dude !! Dude!!! Let's call it Friendster because it's like Napster but for Friends".

Click below for a trio of movie reviews (Hulk, T3 and Spy Kids 3D), a note about members of technology standards committees, a list of RSS Bandit shortcuts and thoughts on organizing a Birds of a Feather at this year's PDC.

 


 

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I finally got around to finishing the article the XML Journal folks asked me for a few months ago. I've sent it out for review and have gotten a mixed set of reactions from the first two reviewers. One guy thinks it's great and suggested a minor tweak while the other felt it was too abstract without code samples and couldn't make much sense of it. As I sent the article out I had a gut feeling that it needed code samples but decided to wait and see what others thought. I guess it does make sense for an article entitled One API To Rule Them All to have code samples. :)

Click below for a more thoughts on release early, release often vs. better together, a response to Ted Neward's response to my comments on his article on Strongly Typed Infosets in the .NET Framework, and an addendum to my post on corporate secrets.

 


 

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July 27, 2003
@ 12:58 AM

I've taken to working out regularly and have decided I need a more flexible way of listening to music while I work out than a Sony Discman. I have a friend who has an iPod who's had nothing but good things to say about it. I'm considering getting one but haven't been sure which one to get and have been slightly put off by some conflicting reviews about whether you can connect it to a Windows box or not.

Thoughts below on corporate secrets, the internet's failure to cure us of our biases and make us all members of the global village, the closure of Eclectic (the XML-DEV blog) and a review of Ted Neward's recent article Blending Objects and XML: Building Strongly-Typed Infosets in .NET

 


 

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I've been reading Phil Greenspun's weblog for the past couple of weeks and I have to say he probably has the most interesting ideas I've seen online in a while. Two of his more interesting posts in the past few weeks have been Americans No Longer Welcome At IBM? and Widening gap between rich and poor leads to aggressive driving?. I don't necessarily agree with a lot of what he writes but I find that his opinions are always interesting as opposed to reading various online journals from technical folks which are either wanking about technology, wanking about blogging or boring us with the mundane minutae of their lives (like my K5 diary).

More below on the Mozilla foundation, posting to eBay from your blog (whatever that means) and some thoughts on attendance by Microsoft employees to Microsoft sponsored conferences.

By the way the title of this diary entry came from this Slashdot post

 


 

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July 22, 2003
@ 12:58 AM

It's so fucking hot in my apartment I can't sleep. The worst part of living in an apartment in the Seattle area is the general lack of air conditioning in like 90% of the apartments out here. My apartment complex is particularly screwed up because the hallway is air-conditioned.

Ramblings below about Seattle festivals, Iraq and the War on TerrorTM, Dave Winer's recent announcement about RSS 2.0, and random XML geekery.

 


 

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July 16, 2003
@ 12:58 AM

Thanks to an offtopic post to XML-DEV this morning I saw a post entitled Don't Be A ShareCropper on Slashdot which was a link to a rant by Tim Bray entitled The Web's The Place. The rant is full of the kind of idealized view of Open Source and the World Wide Web I thought only existed in the late nineties at the height of the dotbomb boom. A dissection of some aspects of his rant below.

Poll: Best Part of the DotBomb Era?

 


 

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A fellow B0rg drone recently got was ticked off at me in private email because I had the nerve to link to Microsoft products in a recent post about software I can't stand. I hadn't realized that working in the Belly of the Beast meant I no longer can dislike software that doesn't meet my needs. However I do agree that I should have provided some constructive criticism or some descriptions of the problems I have instead of just being negative. So I go into some detail this time.

I also have a few more links and thoughts about the Necho project.

Poll: Most Disappointing Movie of the Summer So Far?

 


 

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