Month: November 2003

OSDN DevChannel: Moving from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.1  #

A very weird yahoo group.

Fast Company: The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know. A dismal tale of cheap pickles and a company that would eat the world if it could. #

WorldChanging has a post with some great links to high-quality climate change and international development information. #

Another good one from Rory. #

Scotsman: “One third of US visitors to Scotland believe the haggis is a real animal and almost a quarter would like to hunt the beast, according to a survey by a haggis maker and a US tourism association website.”

ZDNet: Scoring SCO’s legal games. “When this whole sorry affair is over and BB King can get on with writing the Ballard of Black Dog McBride, Groklaw will stand as a monument to how a community under threat can gather its resources and calmly set about restoring sanity in a hurricane of bluster.” #

I know someone who could try this: Zen TV Experiment. #

Guardian: Mini-turbine brings ‘green power for all

VisualStudio Magazine has a good article on Whidbey. Some exciting hints about Yukon integration and lifecycle management tools, but the gist seems to be that this is a release targeted at enterprise developers. #

Ray Ozzie points out the really exciting thing about WinFS is not the search, its the common schemas that apps can use to store their data. I hope he’s right that these standard, extensible schemas will enable interoperability at the data level. Currently, we as an industry don’t have much experience with reusing schemas across multiple organizations.

intraVnews: an RSS aggregator add-in for Outlook. Kind of like the excellent  NewsGator, but free for personal use.  I haven’t tried it as it needs Outlook XP or later. Shame.

Walter Smith points to a fascinating interview with Ray Ozzie:

“Now what if, as has happened in applications, the core abstraction of what is in a contemporary OS moves up by many notches? What if APIs become frameworks? What if a file system becomes more like a database? If higher level service-oriented architectures are in the underlying infrastructure as opposed to just generic standard C library runtime calls?

As a client side developer, I really want to take advantage of that stuff. It lets me be a whole lot more productive. But the more I do that the more I rely on higher-level infrastructure being around. So what I would ask you is the following: Are the Linux community and the Mac community prepared to step up their client-side investments to build higher-level frameworks to make it easier for me to code like Microsoft is doing?”

Walter Smith points to a fascinating interview with Ray Ozzie:

“Now what if, as has happened in applications, the core abstraction of what is in a contemporary OS moves up by many notches? What if APIs become frameworks? What if a file system becomes more like a database? If higher level service-oriented architectures are in the underlying infrastructure as opposed to just generic standard C library runtime calls?

As a client side developer, I really want to take advantage of that stuff. It lets me be a whole lot more productive. But the more I do that the more I rely on higher-level infrastructure being around. So what I would ask you is the following: Are the Linux community and the Mac community prepared to step up their client-side investments to build higher-level frameworks to make it easier for me to code like Microsoft is doing?”

BBC: Oblivion threat to 12,000 species. If you’ve always wanted to see a short-beaked common dolphin, then now would be a good time. #

Bruce Sterling’s blog now has an rss feed. Unfortunately its broken, and RSSBandit refuses to have anything to do with it. C’mon guys… #

Boing-Boing has a link to some very impressive 3D maps of the London underground system. #

Auto Winer Generator from Victor Stone. Count me in!

Wired: “…one of the largest “collections of collections” on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies” #

BBC: There’s now one Harry Potter book for every twenty-four people on the planet.

Wired: “…one of the largest “collections of collections” on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies” #

BBC: There’s now one Harry Potter book for every twenty-four people on the planet.