It's been an interesting weekend so far. Yesterday after watching hundreds of people walk past my bedroom window I decided to investigate and found myself at the Seattle Hempfest which bills itself as the planet's largest marijuana policy reform rally. I half expected to see people surreptitiously hitting blunts or rolling up joints but instead it was more like the typical Seattle festival with lots of people milling about and lots of people selling cheap crap. Only this time the cheap crap had a hemp theme (pipes, hemp clothing, weed leaf jewellery, etc).

I also went to see the show, Puppetry of the Penis: The Ancient Art of Genital Origami last night. It was a pretty entertaining show and was a lot funnier than I expected. It was amazing just how many different shapes those guys could bend themeselves into (the Loch Ness monster, a hamburger, roller skates, the baby kangaroo, etc) and there even was some audience participation. Before the show started there was a comedienne who warmed up the crowd for about 30 minutes and there was a heckler behind me who made a wise ass comment after almost every joke she cracked. I was worried that I'd have to clock him if he continued when the actual show started but the "dick tricks" were entertaining enough to shut him up for the duration of the show.

More below on the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, flies in urinals, and interviewing with Google.

 


 

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August 17, 2003
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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.

 


 

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August 14, 2003
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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.

 


 

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August 9, 2003
@ 12:58 AM

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?
Below are some comments about his post

 


 

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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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