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16 Jan 2002 This post came from Radio v8 on my desktop via the Manila to Blogger API tool into Drupal. This uses my Blogger API add on to Drupal V3. It worked first time! [ 16-Jan-02 4:47pm ] Hello from Radio - Test2
[ 16-Jan-02 4:41pm ] An entertaining satire on the British tendency to grumble. [thanks, Blog.org] Oh, yes. LOL.
 "George Farthing, an expatriate British man living in America, was recently diagnosed as clinically depressed, tanked up on anti-depressants and scheduled for controversial Shock Therapy when doctors realised he wasn't depressed at all - only British." While you're at The Brains Trust, check out their guide and product warning on How to eat pretzels.[ 16-Jan-02 4:09pm ] OpenP2P.com: Interoperability, Not Standards [Mar. 15, 2001] Another great article from Clay Shirky.
[ 16-Jan-02 4:07pm ] What's this all about then? eBusiness Club Website : A fusion of leading technology providers and business support organisations deliver ultimate eBusiness information solutions to the SME community. That's a good line in MarComms-speak... Clearly some mission critical, ultimately scalable, industrial strength, business-technology fusions happening there. I particularly liked this bit under "Find your nearest club", "A full list of the Clubs will be available shortly."
If the tech world runs at 3 times normal life speed, and the government runs at 1/3 of normal life speed, they're a difference of about an order of magnitude. It's hardly surprising that this sort of thing is happening about 3 years too late and after the internet bubble has well and truly burst. [ 16-Jan-02 4:01pm ] What's The Worst Idea For A Website You've Heard? - seethru And here's another one. websites no one has thought of yet
SeeThru continues to improve... I particularly liked "Amiwearingahatornot". but then I'm still waiting for the "Which dinosaur are you - Quiz". [ 16-Jan-02 3:56pm ] 14 Jan 2002 The Times discovers blogs.
Shrub Junior: Wasssup!
Shrub Senior: Wasssup! Shrub Junior: Kicking back, watching the game. Shrub Senior: Drinking a Bud. Shrub Junior: Eating pretzels. Shrub Senior: Wasssup! Wasssup? Shrub Junior: Don't know. I choked on a pretzel, fainted and hit my head. Damn foreign foods, it's a Jewish conspiracy I tell you. I never choked on Momma's good old Texas Chilli. Shrub Senior: Or Enron. Shrub Junior: Wasssup! Shrub Senior: Wasssup! [ 14-Jan-02 8:19am ] 13 Jan 2002 Mike Krus has done an interesting thing. He's made all the scraped RSS feeds on Newsisfree into RSS 0.92 and implemented the cloud feature. So taking a random feed, there's this entry in the channel section.
<cloud domain="www.newsisfree.com" port="80" path="/RPC" registerProcedure="hpe.rssPleaseNotify" protocol="xml-rpc" /> If you're aggregator is always on the net, then you can make an XML-RPC call to this interface, giving it your callback interface. Now when newsisfree notices that the feed has changed, it will call you back. You can then go and collect the RSS with the new data. This is much more efficient than collecting the feed once an hour to see if it's changed. The structure of the calls and callbacks are detailed on the RSS 092 documentation page. [ 13-Jan-02 6:06pm ] 12 Jan 2002 Slashdot | Philips Says Compact Discs Can't be Copyprotected Fascinating. Philips hold the rights to the CD logo. They have come out and said that copy-protected CDs do not abide by the Red book standard and so cannot carry the logo they are in fact "silver disks that look similar to audio CDs but are not audio CDs". Further if they produce a CD/RW device for copying CDs and the customer puts "silver disks that look similar to audio CDs but are not audio CDs" in and the copy works, it's not their problem because they never said the device would work with these, only with CDs.
Wouldn't it be great if one of the co-authors of the standard (and a major company with big pockets) sued the big record companies for using the logo illegally because they had abused the standard? Even if they just got a temporary injunction freezing sales, it would kill copy protected CDs immediately. TUX: Term Unit X : Issue Seven - Reboot The Adventures of Tux, the comic book.
[ 12-Jan-02 9:37am ] 11 Jan 2002 Happy little flash cartoons from DiegarVision
[ 11-Jan-02 8:20pm ] England - business culture: Welcome topics of conversation in England : From ExecutivePlanet.com in their guide to "Business etiquette and culture in US top trading partner nations" Do not make references to the mediocrity of British food, since it has now improved significantly. But talking loudly about football when you don't mean soccer is perfectly acceptable.
[ 11-Jan-02 6:44pm ] Burningbird OpEd: UDDI UDDI -- Don't need, don't want Good piece. More later.
[ 11-Jan-02 7:40am ] 10 Jan 2002 [ 10-Jan-02 4:00pm ] 08 Jan 2002 Stick up for chickens! United Poultry Concerns [UPC] - www.upc-online.org : Dedicated to the Compassionate and Respectful Treatment Of Domestic Fowl
[ 08-Jan-02 8:26am ] 07 Jan 2002 When did Yahoogroups start bumping up the advertizing noise? You can't move around the website without hitting ads. Pop behind; interspersed between messages as you move through them; and the ads in the email messages seem to be getting larger and more annoying. And every message has a terms of use reminder. Back in the days of eGroups you used to be able to pay them money to lose the message ads. In the early days of Yahoogroups they carried this on. But now the web page for this has disappeared. It's all just getting too annoying so it's time to look for another system methinks.
And I still want to know how you back up all the old messages. One day they'll close down and then where will all that data be? [ 07-Jan-02 9:30pm ] Decentralization Message 5007 : Review of The Seattle Wireless Network meeting. Seattle says they're just going to build a whole parallel, free, internet. Amazing stuff about the growth of free 802.11b networks.
[ 07-Jan-02 9:05pm ] Content Wire - Who Owns XML? with reference to the RSS-RDF issue over patents.
[ 07-Jan-02 7:15pm ] XML.com: <taglines/> Anti-Awards 2001 [Jan. 02, 2002] Most excellent awards list for services to XML. And as is often the case, there's way too much unpleasant truth in the satire. I'm particularly amused by the use of a notional tag in the headline forcing me to hand encode it so it makes it through HTML and XML safely. And that the tag isn't even XHTML conformant! (shouldn't there be a space between the "e" and "/") ?
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