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19 Nov 2001 Celebrity Blogmatch is almost live. See the demo here.
16 Nov 2001 Slashdot | Web Services - More Secure or Less?. Why are "Web Services" and "Security" so linked together and why do people see this as a problem? We know how to use SSL. We know how to do Authentication across the web. We know how to build VPNs across the internet. Web Services are just something we do once these controls are in place. The moment you write a CGI, you're exposing functionality to the outside world and a potential security risk. Web Services are no different.
[ 16-Nov-01 5:12pm ] This is what we need. Asia Carrera's (who? No lying now, you don't know who this is, right?) Pr0n Star Unreal Tournament skins. Oh yes. It seems that you're favourite pair of silicone implants is actually a Grrrl. Bless.
[ 16-Nov-01 4:50pm ] 15 Nov 2001 The Register : Researchers probe Net's 'dark address space' William Gibson wrote about a mythical Internet subset called the "Walled City" It was a publically accessible group of sites that had no links to the outside world. This could be built with a firewall but now we discover that 5% of the internet address space is inaccessible because no routers link to it. And that some of this is used to launch black hat attacks by hijacking a router, opening a link, doing the attack and then closing the link. This effectively leaves no trace because subsequent investigation leads to a blank wall. There's something slightly scary about this.
[ 15-Nov-01 7:35am ] Microsoft XP adbust in Shoreditch, London "Suddenly everything sucks".
[ 15-Nov-01 7:16am ] 14 Nov 2001 Kevin Werbach: "The killer app for broadband will be......streaming audio to stereo systems, and video to TVs, via home server appliances. That will drive sales of wireless home networks, which will drive broadband demand. You read it here first." Hmmm. [EVHead] Hmmm indeed. Repeat after me. Broadband will take off when it's cheap. That's all there is. It's not lack of content. It's not even lack of marketing (although that's a factor). It's just too damn expensive. And the cable TV companies are getting to a reasonable price point fastest, and they can't install broafdband fast enough to satisfy they're demand. Which leaves the problem fairly and squarely in the Telco's lap who are charging an extortionate proice for a bad service.
Topless Protesters 'Strip-Tease for Trees' : ``The loggers and the cops were absolutely stunned,'' said Nieto, who launched her anti-logging protests last year with demonstrations of what she calls ``Goddess-based, nude Buddhist guerrilla poetry'' to a number of timber and logging sites in and around northern California. Hmmm..??!
[ 14-Nov-01 8:22pm ] Been playing with Opera 6 this morning. It look's pretty good. But the javascript model and support for IE calls is lacking which means that my blog editing controls don't work. hmmm?
Interestingly it's got support for displaying RSS in a sidebar. The display isn't great, and it's not fully supporting XML encoding. but interesting nonetheless. A small test of the weblogs.com system. As an experiment I tried pinging weblogs.com with the URL of my blog RSS feed instead of the home page. It's all pretty obvious really, but it worked fine. Except that users who clicked on it on the weblogs.com won't see what they expect.
Perhaps what's needed is for weblogs.com to have a second interface where both HTML and RSS URLs are sent. Then they could display the RSS feed with the XML icon next to the entry. Ideally the same XML-RPC interface would be used but with a third optional parameter. But I don't think the spec allows for optional params. Dave W has said he'll think about putting RSS support into Weblogs.com. We'll see. Do minds play dice? : Randomness could be a valuable aid to survival in a complex world It seems we have a random number generator hardwired into our brains. That could explain a lot...
[ 14-Nov-01 9:07am ] 13 Nov 2001 Gratuit Family : We're the Gratuit family, we believe in Gratuitous family values. We have long, meaningful discussion about products you commonly see advertised on tv. Yes. Product placement comes to Blogging.
Liquid Computing : Already, his lab has produced a transistor just 10 atoms across. We're seeing the beginnings of the diamond age. People finding ways of creating Buckytubes through chemistry. Now this guy is "growing" wires by using catalysts that are unidimensional. That's wires that are 10 atoms across. It's the bottom up apporach instead of the current silicon manipulators who are working top down.
[ 13-Nov-01 8:15am ] 11 Nov 2001 Every so often I have to go and read alt.fan.rawilson to get some more weirdness input. It occasionally breaks up into endless discussions of the numerology surrounding Heidi Klum and the way it foretells actions by the CluM (Clandestine Luciferian Masons!) which can get a bit boring. But tonight's session turned up a doozy. The Kenning Game: An Introduction : Nomic was invented by Peter Suber, a philosopher of law at Earlham, and changing the rules is itself part of the game which results in a discussion of the "Infinite Game". Well worth a look if you have an idle 20 minutes.
[ 11-Nov-01 7:32pm ] Stuck on a desert island : Imagine you were stranded on a desert island with only a PC and a modem. Could you earn a living? That's the question I need answering; although I'm not going to a desert island, for all the job opportunities in the place [Sumatra, Indonesia] I am planning to go to, it might as well be. Interesting point. How many times have you been corresponding via email (and other online systems) with somebody and they've said, we must meet FTF or talk on the phone to take the project further. Why? That's not to say they're wrong, but why? There are huge numbers of examples of projects and systems that have been built on the Internet where the participants have never met. But it still seems that many people can't function outside the face to face meeting.
[ 11-Nov-01 8:14am ] 10 Nov 2001 Novelist, 60s Icon Ken Kesey Dies. Well that's another old hero gone. Although, I rather lost the faith when he did a UK TV program searching for "Camelot" wearing a "Tommy Hilfiger" tour jacket. We all know Cuckoo's Nest was great, but the one you should really read is "Sometimes a Great Notion" about a logging family in the Northwest. I seem to remember they made a film of it as well which was OK, but not great.
[ 10-Nov-01 6:42pm ] The thoughts below about the Blog wars happening between Dave and Chris sprung an idea in my head. "Celebrity DeathBlog" in the style of photoshop tennis. Put three boxes together for the two participants and a referee. Add a commentary area below it for audience participation and a Swing-o-meter to let the audience vote on who's winning. Make the referee box a joint blog by two commentators. And then run weekly Celebrity DeathBlogs between famous bloggers. Could be fun and I might just have to do it. Drupal has already got almost all the code I need.
[ 10-Nov-01 8:39am ] A good rant on DMCA from MindJack
[ 10-Nov-01 8:15am ] Carol@Mirror Vorderman interviews a UK Blogger.
[ 10-Nov-01 7:37am ] 09 Nov 2001 Why is it so hard to navigate round the O'Reilly sites. They've got some great content, but the navigation links suck. I was actually looking for the combined weblogs page. Took 10 minutes to find it. Of course once found, the URL was obvious.
[ 09-Nov-01 1:10pm ] This could be fun. It's The Winer (aka Cartman) vs Locke (aka RageBoy) with Searles (aka The Doc) as referee. Now if we could just hijack Cory's four blogs on a page, we could put them side by side. Yes, I bring you a new concept meme, "Celebrity DeathMatch Blogging".
But then it does make you wonder who the hell these people think they are, and why anyone except sad motherfuckers like me should be interested. 
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