Day: July 22, 2002

Dive into accesability: Mark Pilgrim takes a look at accesability, a day at a time, for 30 days.

The stock market seems to have recently taken up skydiving.

Maybe next year I’ll be rich enough to attend the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. 🙂

CWRU students share files even faster: CWRU is going gigabit.

It seems that Google has purchased a powerful route optimizing
solution. Did the fast just get faster?

Good morning! Time to get up to speed.

Andy Rooney: “Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.” I can’t wait until Google caches this.

IBM rounds up several implementations of the ever popular matrix.  This pertains to codemonkeys only. [Pointed to by rootprompt.org]

ILM goes Intel.  In lighter news reporting this evening, ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) has switched from risc to intel-based processors.  Big deal, but good for Intel.

I really need to centralize my bookmarks.  I’ve thought about many ways of going about it, but nothing seems to fit perfectly.  I know I’ll find something, but until then, I’ve got a ton of bookmarks in a ton of places.  I was thinking of using Radio’s outliner to keep track of things, but I can’t run it at work.  I’ve looked for other programs that can read or export OPML, but results have been thin.  I should probably write a java outliner in my spare time.

I’m starting to feel like Dave or Doc.  Poynter is running an article on weblogs that I tihink is worth a read.  I can’t say that it’s on the money, but it’s not too far off.  I’m still diving deeper into the story.

I was a bad boy this weekend and ordered three books from Amazon: Programming Web Services with SOAP, Web Services Essentials, and Using Samba.

I’ve been reading a lot about web services lately, and since I eat a bit of Meerkat’s bandwidth each day, I thought I’d give back to O’Reilly a little bit.  Besides, they’re always darn good books (DGBs).

Prior Art: The JEPG committee believes they have prior art in the Forgent patent dispute.

Sam Ruby has a new essay out: REST + SOAP.  I need to read it tomorrow when I have more time.

Paul Snively on AppleScript:. Paul Snively on AppleScript: “…a faux-English scripting language that expressed trivial things trivially but for anything real-world rapidly degenerated into constructs that rather strongly resembled complex-compound sentences conceived in German but translated to English while leaving the German word-order intact.” [Hack the Planet]

Anyone who has ever written or groked appliscript code should be laughing right now.

I have always confused it with the gentoo linux distribution, but gentoo the file manager looks promising.  I’m downloading it on my linux box right now.

Worldcom to file for bankruptcy.  We all saw it coming.