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Monthly Archives: October 2004

quote of the day.

by Rob Friesel

Some words from Jobs that are worth remembers: [Innovation] comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone […]

recordXML (2).

by Rob Friesel

Spent about an hour or so working revisions to the DTD etc. tonight. Fixed a few (in retrospect) obvious errors and beefed up a few other things. Addressed several of the items w/r/t/ potential issues/complications with compilations. Made the bold decision to atomize it more rather than less, particularly w/r/t/ favoring the artist-track relationship over […]

recordXML.

by Rob Friesel

Needing a new side-project, and with the flurry of vinyl-to-MP3 transfers going on around this joint, I decided to start up my own little XML standard for marking up the records. After about 20 minutes, here’s what we’ve got: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <!ELEMENT collection (record+)>   <!ELEMENT record (artist, album, original, tracklisting, condition?)>     <!ELEMENT artist (#PCDATA)> […]

Das Experiment.

by Rob Friesel

File under the “Currently Viewing” category… Allow me to recommend the German film Das Experiment, a pleasantly(!?) disturbing drama based (very) loosely on Stanford Prison Experiment. Starring Moritz Bleibtreu (whom you may recognize from 1998’s Lola Rennt), this Oliver Hirschbiegel film takes the true story of Zimbardo’s 1971 experiment and follows its premise through to […]

Badnarik.

by Rob Friesel

Fight the two party system! Libertarian party candidate Michael Badnarik was arrested for attempting to make his voice heard as a presidential candidate. Affidavit Friday October 8, 2004 3:35 PM Statement by Samuel P. New and Margaret E. Taylor Today at approximately 2:38PM, we entered the office building at 1200 New Hampshire Ave., NW in […]

wanted…

by Rob Friesel

WANTED: A non-Java based, preferably lightweight text editor with strong support for editing XML documents. Must have integrated XSLT functions (favor given to Xalan-based transformers), automatic tag closure, and the ability to infer the DTD in use. Preference given to feature rich apps that can demonstrate the ability to manage sets of documents as projects; […]

fond memories.

by Rob Friesel

The time? Midnight-ish March 31, 2001. The place? Trueschler 3 in the deepest depths of rural St. Mary’s County, Maryland. The mixer? Well, it was a Numark DM2002X but the DJ was one Ben Thomassen of the otaku-kozu. [right/control]-click, “Save As…” Anyway, good times. Glad I kept those CDs…