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31 Jan 2002 Postscript: The nasty site crossed a new boundary today, and we cut the cord. It wasn't my decision solely, everyone at UserLand agreed. It's time to say goodbye. Enough is enough.
 [thanks! Scripting News] . So Winerlog is gone. And I'm left with this nagging question. What did they do? And of course, Where will they turn up next? That'll be http://winerlog.weblogger.com/ then. [ 31-Jan-02 8:48am ] 29 Jan 2002 Most excellent use of tech to promote community. A coffee pot linked to a web site and rf transmitter. When the coffee's ready co-workers get pinged and encouraged to gather round. The best bit is the remote coffee aroma devices that emit lovely coffee smells when they get the ping. [thanks, bOing bOing]
[ 29-Jan-02 9:26pm ] Dave W writes: ...they'd know that hierarchical models with very tight scripting connections offer more performance and a higher level application model. Relational databases are good for factories and stores. Object databases map the model of the Web. Another puzzle for us. What does he have against relational databases? Did he get bitten by one once? I think we should be told. Yet again, this all seems curious to me. There's an awful lot of web sites out there built with PHP, Perl and Python built on top of MySQL. Also interesting that an increasing numbers of Mac OSX machines have MySQL pre-installed along with the scripting languages I've just mentioned. Now how many machines and web sites have an object or hierarchical data store as the back end? Of course, differences in installed base don't actually constitute any sort of argument, but Dave does seem to be listening to a different drummer here.
Note, there are no feral "H"s in this post  [ 29-Jan-02 9:14pm ] Interview with Rusty Foster of Kuro5hin.org on (among other things) the future of coummunity driven news sites.
I'm strangely amused by the idea of a mailing list that rejects all mail from MS Email readers. And more amused by inserting headers that deliberately make the mail awkward or impossible to read on MS Email readers. [thanks, Slashdot]
When Boobs Attack! Life imitates the classic 70s soft-core B-movie, "Deadly Weapons" starring (!) Chesty Morgan.
[ 29-Jan-02 8:39am ] 27 Jan 2002 British Group Calls for Internet-Free day. Today, heh-heh! Already I'm getting flack from the wife...
[ 27-Jan-02 9:06am ] Serious work getting done on SOAP toolkit interoperability including WSDL interop. SOAPBuilders Interoperability Lab
[ 27-Jan-02 9:01am ] Excellent .Net for newbies article written from the POV of Mac programmers. wiltgen.net | articles | A .NET primer for Mac users :
it includes this piece from IBM. Web services The best definition of web services that I could find was written by Doug Tidwell of IBM: Web services are a new breed of web application. They are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published, located, and invoked across the web. Web services perform functions, which can be anything from simple requests to complicated business processes. A simple web service might provide stock quotes or process credit card transactions. Once a web service is deployed, other applications (and other web services) can discover and invoke the deployed service. [ 27-Jan-02 8:51am ] 26 Jan 2002  For lovers of conspiracy theories everywhere, There is no Bovine Illuminati Fnord.[ 26-Jan-02 7:10pm ] An alternative weblog update ping serviceblo.gs. Similar to weblogs.com
[ 26-Jan-02 4:16pm ] BlogRolling.com A Blog Index.
[ 26-Jan-02 8:07am ] Blogger Pro - The detail.
[ 26-Jan-02 7:30am ] 25 Jan 2002 The End of Free : Perhaps not was the right answer. As far as I can tell, it's no longer even an option to have an ad-free Yahoo! Group. It seems I'm not the only one to be getting irritated by YahooGroups.
[ 25-Jan-02 8:25am ] 24 Jan 2002 More little teeny robots. Unfortunately these are still in the design phase. Nanowalkers are "fully autonomous and are being designed to make nearly 10,000 movements per second. They will be able to move in three dimensions, with precision as much as 10 million times better than current assembly robots. [thanks, bOing bOing]
[ 24-Jan-02 7:07pm ] Davd Rogers also points us to an article by Lawrence Lessig that argues that the legal strictures on copyrighted material are holding up broadband acceptance. Much as I'd like to see changes in the copyright law, I'm not convinced that that's what's stopping customer demand for broadband. [thanks, JOHO the Blog] The only thing holding back broadband is price. All this talk about content and other factors is just hot air designed to deflect people from the two core issues above. [ 24-Jan-02 7:00pm ] Geeknews : I don't wanna be on any plane with some terrorist who gets himself root to the planes navagational system.
[ 24-Jan-02 9:26am ] You have till Sunday night (Jan 27) to make your voice heard about the MS Anti-trust settlement. There's a good description of what to do, here.
[ 24-Jan-02 9:20am ] 23 Jan 2002 Last mile Broadband via the Sewers This one had me giggling. I started imaging this sort of Mission Impossible crossed with Cronenberg scene where a fiber optic umbilical comes out of the toilet bowl or out of the sink. However I guess they have a point. London's sewers are fine pieces of Victorian engineering, they're everywhere, and almost every building already has a connection.
[ 23-Jan-02 5:33pm ] 22 Jan 2002 The good Doc suggests I think it's reasonable to want the stuff of infrastructure to be transparent. Note that I'm not talking about the stuff that depends on infrastructure, such as the entire commercial software business upwards of operating systems. I'm talking about infrastructure. [thanks, Doc Searls Weblog] I tend to agree. But there's a problem. As we talk more and more about connected applications and toolkits, where do we draw the line of what is infrastructure and what is not? OS and TCP/IP stacks seem easy. How about Browsers? How about Email readers? IM clients? Personal web servers? As it becomes routine for every app to expose a TCP port and listen on it, does this mean that all of it should be transparent?
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