22 August 2003

Which Brings Me To: Mapping the Spread of Viruses _ Contagions via Contact Tracing - Valdis Krebs http://www.orgnet.com/contagion.html Great stuff.   5:53:18 PM     Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year Extraordinary record of the progression of the plague in London in 1665. 'Tokens' - purple blotches indicating plague. Information dissemination. And tragic but ultimately effective restraints on movement containing the spread of the disease. 5:49:34 PM     Acrobat and XML forms Acrobat and InfoPath. Look at Adobe's interactive income tax form. That document is licensed, by the Document Server for Reader Extensions, to unlock the form fill-in and digital signature capabilities of the reader. Filling in a form and then signing it digitally is an eye-opening experience. It's more interesting now that the form's data is schema-controlled and, Myers adds, can flow in and out by way of WSDL-defined SOAP transactions. The only missing InfoPath ingredient is a forms designer that nonprogrammers can use to map between schema elements and form fields. That's just what the recently announced Adobe Forms Designer intends to be. I like where Adobe is going. The familiarity of paper forms matters to lots of people. And unless Microsoft's strategy changes radically, those folks are far likelier to have an Adobe reader than an InfoPath client. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 10:02:03 AM

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