I was browsing Clay Bennett's editorial cartoons and came across a few images that are definitely instances of a picture being worth a thousand words. The one that resounded with me the most was this cartoon about Affirmative Action.

More below on Christina Aguilera's newest video, Idi Amin's death, more RSS Bandit sightings on shareware sites, thoughts on using job listings for industrial espionage and other stuff.

RSS Bandit on WebAtack.com - 3.5 stars

I just lost a few weeks worth of changes to RSS Bandit because I overwrote one of my files with one I got from Torsten without realizing Torsten had modified an old version of the file. If I was still using Emacs all I'd have to do is grab the RssHandler.cs~ file and I'd be back in business.

RSS Bandit 1.1 on About.com

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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