Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Thanks to P for pointing out that Stephenson’s essay In the Beginning was the Command Line just happened to be hanging out on the web. Sweet. Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly […]
While I haven’t logged myself in yet, I’ve been taking note of this flickr phenomenon and have made a few notes… Flash viewer. Terribly interesting. Clever solution? Intriguing that the camera type is noted. RSS as a predictable and yet interesting choice. Funny how it crawls the comments and advertises accordingly. Not that I’m complaining. […]
Grudge match to the death. <found_drama v=’4.0′ /> vs. Apple plists. I’ll be damned if I don’t lick this son of a bitch. UPDATE: I suppose I should Google my challenges first. There’s always someone whose done it already, isn’t there?
The much predicted iPod Photo is a reality. I have but one question: Where’s the visualizer setting?
Making my usual round through the blogroll, I saw the Keynote Study article mentioned/discussed on Cult of Mac. Intrigued by the mention, I clicked through to the article itself. My but does someone need to go back to Statistics 101. The quote that Cult of Mac seemed to fix on was: Apple was the lone […]
For amy and mike and all the other BBS geeks from waaaaay back… This post is for you: 7 hour BBS Documentary Nearly Ready
Making a big push to take my work-related XML projects to the next level. Why? Let’s just say that management is boring and tedious, lacking in the mental rewards that the problem-solving of programming-type ish offers. That being said, renewing my efforts on the ‘procdoc’ and ‘-faq’ projects for work seem a happy compromise. So […]
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 […]
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)> […]
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; […]