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This is a test port to see if my Radio is working again!
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It looks like I have a fan a failure on my web server which means I am going to have to take rolandtanglao.com off line until I can replace it (this may take a couple of weeks since I am going on vacation)! My apologies for the inconvenience!
9:48:44 PM
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Excellent, going to have try this out once 1.3a is officially released!
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Robert O'Callahan brought this good news to the contentEditable bug page. A colleague at Q42 did some testing. It's not true contentEditable yet, you can only make an IFrame editable (the designMode feature from IE). But execCommand and related functions from IE seem to work. So I think the wysiwyg editor from Radio can be made to work in Mozilla 1.3a without much change.
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8:13:16 PM
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(SOURCE:"papascott")-An example of using Apache re-directs that I need to save for future reference.
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Now that I can do rewrites in my .htaccess file, I'm now redirecting date-based URLs to the appropriate b2 page. That means, for instace, that http://www.papascott.de/2002/11 takes you to the monthly archive for November 2002. Before I was using hundreds of .php files generated by Movable Type, since my old hoster only allowed .htaccess files in certain directories.
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7:55:40 PM
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Very cool. A wrist watch Palm!
11:55:50 AM
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(SOURCE:"accordion")-This sucks! I have been through a similar experience where the company said they like me but couldn't hire me. Very frustrating. Chin up/Gambatte Joey! You'll find something cool soon!
11:49:08 AM
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This wouldn'be so funny if it weren't so true of today's job market. Good luck Joey!
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It's certainly a hirer's market out there. I don't ever recall having to jump through so many hoops to get a job. I'm half-expecting them to make me walk across burning coals, face off against other candidates in the evening gown competition or challenge one of the Iron Chefs as the final trial.
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11:29:42 AM
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(SOURCE:"backupbrain")-Maybe this is the last tip I need to print in Mac OS X with my Epson Photo 700"
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It seems that CUPS can use that adapter through the magic of the option-click Add trick. I'd think that this potentially opens up the door for other printers too.
The really sneaky part is that the device has to be plugged in when CUPS starts. When I first started out, I was merely plugging in the USB cable and getting frustrated that it was unusable. However I lucked into the solution after rebooting my mac with the USB cable plugged in...by happenstance I ended up in the Print Center, option-clicked on Add and was presented with a NEW option at the bottom of the Device list: USB Parallel Cable. WOOOHOOO! I further determined that a reboot is NOT necessary to see the cable, merely a "HUP" of the CUPS daemon.
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10:56:39 AM
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(SOURCE:"rossm")-Amen!
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The greatest lesson anyone can gain is to be aware of the networks around us, structural holes exist and understand that a little activism creates tremendous value.
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10:53:20 AM
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Nice overview
10:50:37 AM
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Sounds like a TinderBox clone.
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In a preview to Bill Gates' much anticipated keynote address here at Comdex 2002, Microsoft Corp. executives briefed the media on a new application for capturing and organizing notes.
ADVERTISEMENT
Called OneNote, the Microsoft Office application is designed to let users more easily store, navigate and search personal or business notes, according to Jeff Raikes, group vice president of productivity and business services at the Redmond, Wash., software developer.
"Note-taking as a metaphor has been relatively underserved in software," Raikes said to an intimate group of press here.
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10:49:57 AM
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(SOURCE:"vfth")-Sounds great, need something like this!
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RsyncX is an implementation of rsync with HFS support and configuration through a command line (Terminal) or graphical user interface. For full details on rsync, open a terminal window and enter 'man rsync'. This will introduce you to the theory behind the software. Once RsyncX is installed, be sure to read its included RsyncX_readme file, and all of the information provided here as well.
The latest version for RsyncX is v1.7d.
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10:41:29 AM
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Classification of Links. Stumbled upon this blog, from Seth Russell's web blog. It's a classification of links:
Table 1: A Classification of Links According to Primary Function
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Authorizing |
Describes an organization's legal, formal policies, contact information, etc. that authenticate the site and its content. |
- About Us
- Customer Service Policies
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Commenting |
Provides opinion about the site and/or its content. |
- Press Releases
- Testimonials
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Enhancing |
Provides more factual information about site content by offering greater detail or painting the "bigger picture." |
- Guidelines for Membership
- Site Map
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Exemplifying |
Provides a specific example of content within a broader category. |
- Future Events
- Today's Horoscopes
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Mode-Changing |
Moves users from the reading mode to one that requires a different kind of activity. |
- Online Survey
- Shopping Cart
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Referencing/Citing |
Provides information that "informs" or supplements the site's content. |
- Bibliography
- Related Links
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Self-Selecting |
Allows users to narrow a search by making choices based on their age, sex, geographical location, life situation, personal interests, and so on. |
- For Seniors Only
- Your Local Chapter
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I wonder how this to relates to the Speech Acts classification of Verbs, or better yet the Soft Security stuff. Interesting. [SOURCE: ::Manageability::]
12:10:30 AM
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(SOURCE:"peterme")-As "jrobb" says, mindbomb! What's important is not knowing stuff but how to find that stuff! I also don't know any phone numbers any more either; I rely on my mobile for that. The lesson for software developers is that any software which minimizes interaction anxiety will be easier to use.
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The always-connected artifacts we carry with us are slowly eroding the idea that we should know all the information we need to complete a task.
A few examples? Most people I know hardly set a specific appointment (date, time, place) with anybody anymore, as they all trust mobile phones to allow them to hook up at the last minute or so. Phone numbers themselves are gone from memory, as they are always handy on silicon in a pocket.
The same can be said for driving direction to an unknown place: once a "bird's eye" travel plan has been established it's easier to rely on GPS or phone-driven data to pin-point us where we want to go.
It's as if the granularity of the knowledge we feel we require to move comfortably in certain domains has changed.
All of the above also resonates with what people like Peter Morville (again) have been saying about "The Age of Findability".
By now we've learned there's already more data "out there" than we'll ever need so we won't even try to gather and absorb it all.
With varying levels of confidence we increasingly rely on the fact that the information we need will be accessible just when we need it, wherever we are. What matters then is that we can quickly find it.
From a world where people's main issue has been managing information we might be thus evolving to a connected world where problems will also come from managing interaction. With content. With other people. With the devices that allow us to interact with content and people.
A world where fluidity of interaction with information will be at least as important as information itself.
A world where we'll fear being cut off from The Network, with the resulting inability to access our sources of knowledge.
A world of interaction anxiety.
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11:48:45 PM
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I had a great time dancing at St. James last night. Why? Barb is injured so we could only dance together a few times. I always seem to have a better night when I am forced to dance with different people even though dancing with Barb is the best! Also, last night some excellent Artie Shaw and Count Basie music was played (thanks Lucy and Harrison!).
Suggestions for improvement:
1. Please get a better sound system! I know the UBC Swing Kids are a non-profit and therefore have no money but the bad acoustics plus the fact that a lot of classic swing dance music is recorded in mono make it very difficult to hear the music especially the bass. And when I can't hear the bass, I find it very difficult to dance.
2. Please play more slow music and beginner East Coast Swing music. Why? To keep the community growing and alive, you need to attract the beginners. Beginners start with East Coast typically and they need music that's up tempo but not too fast. And beginning Lindy Hoppers need this kind of music too! At least when I have been at St. James, most of the music has been too slow or too fast for East Coast.
IMHO addressing these two items would improve the St. James experience for everybody. As it is now, St. James is great if you are an established dancer or if you go with a group of friends to dance, but if you are alone or in a small group and not an established dancer, it can be very intimidating.
8:58:27 PM
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(SOURCE: )-Very cool eye candy display of system performance!
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iPulse is an application that graphically displays the inner workings of Mac OS X.
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8:31:54 PM
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(SOURCE:"aklogapart")-Phil figures this will happen in 2003-2005. I'm counting on it!
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Personally, I think blogging as a form will merge with all the other forms of digital expression. With email and IM first. With voice/video conferencing, streaming videos, browsing, and PowerPointing later.
Watch it change:
* as more people blog from their foto-mobiles
* as devices start to blog ("My car's day")
* as audiobloggers create radio shows and videobloggers create televsion programming
* as Sims characters start to blog.
Moving forward, see a convergent software client emerge.
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12:34:27 PM
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(SOURCE:"escapablel")
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So naturally, I see an Internet-based peer-to-peer economy as a candidate to get the patriarchal fundamentalists' followers to admit that they were just mouthing the words so they could get the attention of the influential patriarchs. Once the hierarchies are marginalized by open source transaction web forms, people will do directly what they thought they needed the patriarchs for - reach better markets for their energy and engage their genes for usefulness.
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12:27:06 PM
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(SOURCE:"bloga")-Cool. You write the program. IBM helps turn it into a web service so you don't have to worry about 24x7 and server issues.
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November 15, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Service provider IBM (IBM.com) announced on Thursday that it has introduced a program designed to enable software vendors to provide their applications as services.
IBM Global Services will host the applications in its data centers and its software partners will deliver them on-demand over the network to customers using a variety of licensing models. The new IBM Application Enablement Program, says the company, supplies ISVs with the skills and expertise to adapt their software packages to use IBMís hosting centers as an alternative method for customer deployment.
As part of the program, IBM teams will work with vendors to enable, test and deploy applications. After completing the program, a vendorís applications will be enabled for delivery as services over the network.
The initial participants in the program are software makers Adexa, Entrust, MRO Software and Portal. They plan to offer their software to customers as services.
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11:15:47 AM
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(SOURCE:"bloga")
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Peppercorn uses merchant signatures to make the transaction noninteractive (more flexible), and serial numbers to make sure that the user isn't overcharged. So 100 mini-transactions are packaged as one transaction that uses a sequence number to identify and validate its origin. When the bank then processes the transaction, it is able to determine its amount by using simple arithmetic. Thus, the customer is charged the correct amount, the merchant gets the correct payment, and the bank reduces its processing costs to 1/100th of what it would have normally been.
Approaches like Peppercorn are needed to make micropayments work, because a micropayment is almost always less than its processing fee.
Several other companies are working on micropayments, too. Most revenue-generating companies are looking to help the consumer pay for content on the Internet. Cartio Micropayments is working in the range of $0.01 to $10, and is focusing on music, video, and games. VeriSign just acquired CyberCash to boost its Internet payment efforts.
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11:14:15 AM
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Wow! I hope this results in a better Vancouver! I voted for Valerie MacLean.
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VANCOUVER - COPE's Larry Campbell is Vancouver's new mayorñelect, with almost twice as many votes as the NPA's Jennifer Clarke. Campbell received 80,772 votes, to Clarke's 41,936 votes while vcaTEAM's Valerie MacLean trailed far behind with 7,843 votes.
Vancouver voters have also given Campbell a COPEñdominated council to work with, electing all eight COPE council candidates along with two NPA candidates.
COPE has also won control of Vancouver School Board, taking seven of the nine trustees' position, as well as the Vancouver Park Board where it took five of the seven seats.
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12:19:19 AM
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(SOURCE:"paul snively":)-If I ever need to develop Java servlets, I'll check this out!
5:04:58 PM
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Americans, please stop this!
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If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:
Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend
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4:53:40 PM
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(SOURCE:Scripting News)-RDF is simple but like cellular automata it quickly can lead to complexity. Makes sense to me. Perhaps the only thing wrong with RDF is its XML transliteration as Tim Bray has argued.
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...from a purely lexical point of view RDF is simply a formalization of normal English sentance construction rules. In other words it is a way of describing things that has much of the power of the English language. Thought about in those terms you can begin to grasp the range of things you can do with RDF, but you will never be able to apply it!
However, in a mathematical sense what we are referring to here are Nodes and Edges in a Network Graph. In this case 'Nodes' are points of reference (for RDF they are URIs like 'http://www.google.com/') and 'Edges' are the predicates that define how Nodes are related. All this is done with a simple syntax that can be (but does not have to be) represented in XML. Anyone who has some grasp of the numerical theory behind network graphs can apply RDF, but even they are going to have some difficulty conceptualizing it.
Why is this? Didn't I start out by saying it was simple? Well, you see the problem is that very complex scenarios can emerge out of the interaction of a few simple rules. This concept of Emergent Behavior is a hot topic right now because it promises to finally explain (among other things) how our very minds can operate in a meat matrix of simple cells with simple connections. The trick is that you need lots of those simple cells.
RDF is an emergent system consisting of a network graph realization framework made out of a few simple rules. The interaction of those rules open up an entire universe of possibilities and it is difficult to get your head around an entire universe. Of course, so long as you are only dealing with a few things (Charlie and his son George) you are OK. But the minute you bring in the rest of the town things get ugly fast. RDF is designed to let you model the relationships of the entire town. That is why RDF is hard.
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1:12:26 PM
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(SOURCE:"biplog")-Cool idea.
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Bounty Poster: Know Before You Go
No question about it, BountyQuest quickly turns up great prior art for defensive use in patent litigation. But what often is overlooked are the many other proactive uses of our human search engine approach--in product clearance, investment due diligence, and pre-licensing situations, and finding infringers.
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1:07:47 PM
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(SOURCE:Globe And Mail)-Something about this is not right! If this guy is rich, why is he seeking compensation from the Ontario government for the operation which Ontario hospitals refused on ethical grounds? Why do a lot of Filipinos have this martyr complex? Were this guy's three sons suitable donors and if so why didn't they donate?
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A wealthy Toronto developer paid a large sum of money to the Mayo Clinic to have his live-in housekeeper's kidney transplanted into him -- an operation that four Canadian hospitals refused to do on ethical grounds.
Surgeons at the Rochester, Minn., clinic performed the operation on Murray Menkes in October, 1999, after officials were satisfied that the Filipina housekeeper, who is now 54, was acting on compassionate grounds.
The housekeeper apparently signed an agreement, spelling out how she would not be compensated for donating her organ and that she was doing it on her own initiative, according to a decision by Ontario's Health Services Appeal and Review Board.
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10:14:38 AM
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Yet another Intellectual Property Blog this time a "serious" one from Berkeley journalism students.
11:32:04 PM
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(SOURCE:"ranchero)-As I am installing MySQL on Mac OS X, this will come in quite handy!
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In this article I'll give you an overview of MySQL's features and drawbacks, show you how to install MySQL on Mac OS X, and introduce you to some of MySQL's notable technical aspects.
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6:04:22 PM
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(SOURCE:"jonu")-Congrats!
2:01:48 PM
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(SOURCE:"rossm")-Health Socratic debate which Ross calls revealing conflict is very useful.
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Jim McGee offers a must read 4 categories of explicit knowledge:
1. Sharing Answers
2. Sharing Questions
3. Sharing Practices
4. Discovery/Innovation
This kind of segmentation is invaluable. Besides defining the categories, he identifies their key management issues.
It might be a little out there, but I can't help but offer a 5th, maybe as a category and at least as lens for viewing potential use of the categories -- Revealing Conflicts.
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1:57:09 PM
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(SOURCE:"scottl")-Interesting. Still doesn't sound compelling enough for me to want one. Still waiting for a product done with Apple's style and design.
<quote>
So, one day in, my verdict: I can't see ever buying a portable laptop that isn't a convertible -- the benefits are too great for me. It's a Tablet PC, not a Pen PC, and not a Clamshell PC, and that's a win. While these are clearly still basically a version 1 or 2, they are still very useful. If you read a lot on a PC, and move your laptop around a lot, and have benefited from 802.11, and don't mind using early software that works but is basic (like the original VisiCalc was), and are in the market for a new laptop, take the next step and move up to a tablet. Corporate evaluators must start learning about these systems, because as they improve and the price difference disappears, you'll have to figure out how to configure them, what type of software to insist upon, etc. If you always wanted to do your composing with a pen, and expect handwriting to be as reliable as a keyboard, stick with the keyboard, and wait for "handwriting computing" to happen, if it ever does. It's not that important. Tablet computing is. It will make reading on a computer even more pervasive. I think Microsoft and the hardware manufacturers who were willing to take a chance trying to advance the state of mainstream personal computing are to be commended for what they've done.
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1:54:34 PM
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(SOURCE:"boing")-Excellent looking forward to it!
<quote>
This is a short issue of Crypto-Gram, because I'm finishing up a new book.
We are being told that we are in graver danger than ever, and that we must change our lives in drastic and inconvenient ways in order to be secure. We are being told that we must give up privacy or anonymity, or accept restrictions on our actions. We are being told that the police need new investigative powers, that domestic spying capabilities need to be instituted, and that our militaries must be brought to bear on countries that support terrorism. What we're being told is mostly untrue. Most of the changes we're being asked to endure don't result in good security. They don't make us safer. Some of the changes actually make things worse.
My new book, still untitled, is a book about security. Not computer security, but security in general. Its goal is to teach readers how to think differently, how to tell good security from bad security, and to be able to explain why. Its goal is to instill in readers a healthy skepticism about security, especially the technologies surrounding security. Its goal is to convince readers that good security is about people.
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11:21:55 AM
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(SOURCE:"jonu")-Another reason why Microsoft should have been split up into three companies; BrowserCo, OfficeCo and WindowsCo. There's no incentive for Microsoft to enable XML editing in their browser. Having said, that the abiltity to read and write XML in Office is definitely cool.
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Leveraging the strengths of the tools was clearly the right way to add XML support to Office. In Version 11, Word and Excel can still do everything they used to be able to do, only now they can do those things with XML data. It's a huge advance. However, I'm still hungry for XML authoring support in the tools that I spend most of my day using, and that you probably do too: the browser and the e-mail client. If the goal is to enrich as much user data as possible, the browser's TEXTAREA widget and the e-mail client's message composer are arguably the most strategic targets for XML authoring support.
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11:01:35 AM
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(SOURCE:"boing")-Cool! Either this is grand folly or a cool bold move! I hope for the latter!
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Roxio Inc. (ROXI: news, chart, profile) developer of CD-burning software, said it has reached agreement to acquire the intellectual property assets, including patents, of Napster Inc. for $5 million in cash and warrants on 100,000 shares of its stock. The Delaware court handling Napster's bankruptcy still must approve the deal.
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10:57:13 AM
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(SOURCE:Scripting News)-It ain't good but it ain't that bad and it certainly is not the end of the world. The old-fashioned way of actually having a viable business plan is harder but still doable IMHO.
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What really worries Lee, however, is not washouts and wipeouts but the fact that a fresh, new generation of entrepreneurs is finding it nearly impossible to get venture backing. "The idea that this is hurting entrepreneurism is certainly true," he says. "I have a number of students with interesting ideas. In the past they wouldn't have hesitated [to start a new company] and try them out, but now they've opted to go work for a conventional company."
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10:52:02 AM
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(SOURCE:Scripting News)-Nice to see Dave programming more. Looking forward to this cool new Radio feature.
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I'm doing an interesting project to backup a Radio installation into the cloud. Eventually this will allow people to synchronize work between office and home, a common feature request.
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10:44:19 AM
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(SOURCE:Scripting News)-The tools are getting easier but we still have a ways to go!
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Another approach is the Web log, or "blog," a phenomenon which has attracted hundreds of thousands of self-publishers looking for an easy way to create sites that can be updated with text and pictures but require little or no technical know-how.
"Blogging has made a huge difference in the ability of ordinary people to publish," said O'Reilly, publisher of the nuts-and-bolts guide to blogging entitled "Essential Blogging."
For non-techies, Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) or LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com) allows Web writers to set themselves up on the Web for free, with additional features available for a fee.
Radio UserLand (http://radio.userland.com/), another popular blogging tool, comes with a free 30-day trial and costs $39.95 to purchase.
MoveableType is a fourth such blog software alternative.
But not all blog software is easy to set up, users say.
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5:53:05 PM
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(SOURCE:"aklogapart")-Get him before somebody else snaps him up!
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Scott Anguish, proprietor of the excellent Mac OS X and Cocoa resource site, StepWise, is available for Cocoa programming, WebObjects programming, and other consulting and writing.
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1:20:49 AM
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I've posted David Wong's Vancouver 2002 Election Picks solely to help you make a more informed choice when you vote in the 2002 Vancouver election. David Wong is a friend but of course I don't endorse all of his views!
The most important thing is to inform yourself and vote on November 16th!
10:58:38 PM
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(SOURCE:"rfb")-Excellent. Need to learn more about this for "ourblogven".
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For busy professionals concerned with Internet marketing and media, we aggregate news and analysis from dozens of sources, with insight, brevity and occasional sarcasm.
</quote>
12:57:10 PM
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aka Bluetooth considered harmful!
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Bluetooth is in the mainstream of the old model of telecommunications in which all the services are defined by the center and every new capability must be approved before it can be deployed and thus before we even understand it. 802.11 is simply a transport for packets and doesn't stand in the way of creating new capabilities.
Once again we face a familiar paradox. Bluetooth which defines so much of the solution is thus limited to what it defines and that is very little and it only works among a few nearby devices. 802.11 which makes few promises inherits the existing richness of the Internet Protocols and has no such limits of distance.
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10:23:24 AM
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(SOURCE:"boing")-Excellent tips to improve your writing which I will try to apply.
10:07:59 AM
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(SOURCE:"zeldman")-Just blogging this for later!
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This page attempts to further support and document a technique for embedding Flash movies into XHTML pages. The technique was first described in an article written for A List Apart, and has been known as Flash Satay.
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10:04:18 AM
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(SOURCE:"Jrobb")-Very cool. Shows you how quickly you can develop and deploy apps once you grok the system.
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kolhoos.ee server is running UserLand Frontier and a custom HTTP responder able to receive SMS messages from Mobi Solution's SMS gateway and provide response text that is sent back to user as a SMS message. mobiSMSresponder.root will be available as under Frontier Artistic License or similiar rules, as soon it reaches at least some level of completeness. Commenting system uses Userland's Radio Community System, part of Frontier.
Ads can be shown in Manila sites using a macro:
showOneAd (keyword, price = 0.01, HTML = true, Comments = true)
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