{ 2000.06.23 } And, and, and: Finals are over. You ain't seen nothing yet. Just you wait. Just you fucking wait.
{ 2000.06.23 } And, and, and: Finals are over. You ain't seen nothing yet. Just you wait. Just you fucking wait.
{ 06.22 } I was going to post a response to Dave Winer's Microsoft.NET notes, but I need to work on it some more. The rest of this post is what I thought of writing, starting with a quote from dw's post:
Hey it wasn't really Microsoft's vision, it was *our* vision. I think they've not really figured it out.
Right on! Supporting evidence from MSNBC's coverage of .NET:
"There has been an explosion of new devices and an explosion of Web sites and Web services, but no one is taking a step back and looking it at a higher level," said Microsoft spokesman Greg Shaw.
That's so unfair. W3C? Mozilla? I'm excited about what Microsoft are doing, but I'm concerned they may be going about it in the wrong way. Over a decade ago, Apple released Hypercard as a monolithic app and claimed they had perfected the Memex. It was very popular for a time, but now a collection of open tools and protocols (www, http, http post, cgi, xmlrpc, soap) do the same job and do it better. If only the vast talent in Microsoft could turn to using already existing|developing standards (XPointer, XPath, XLink, XSLT). XML is the new ASCII, afterall -- of course it's going to be supported; but what about the semantics? Watching what's happening, it's almost as if Microsoft never learnt to abstract properly.
And at that point, I run out of things to say. But do you get the idea?
{ } Apparently Oxford won't be giving Blair an honourary degree. Sorry, why is this news? Thatcher got pissed when Oxford wouldn't give her a degree too, but I was under the impression that this was because Oxford never grant an honourary degree to a sitting Prime Minister. Blair will be no exception.
{ 06.21 } I wish I had more time. When I do, SemanticWeb.org needs a very good read.
{ } Paul Simon's 'Graceland' is my all-time favourite album; Graceland itself a song that I can feel playing on and under my skin. Graceland, the album, was recorded in 1985 with a number of South African groups. I'd like to quote from the sleavenotes about Graceland, the track.
Graceland is less typical of South African music than most of the other tracks, largely because of the flexibility and collaborative musical gifts of two extraordinary musicians - fretless bass player Baghiti Khumalo and guitarist Ray Phiri. In fact, it almost has that feel of American country music. After the recording session, Ray told me that he'd used a relative minor chord - something not often heard in South African music - because he said he thought it was more like the chord changes in my music.
Paul Simon doing South African doing Paul Simon. Hey, and get this: Paul Simon had his eye on the internet way back there in the 1980s. From the lyrics to Boy In The Bubble:
Scaccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
These are the days of miracle and wonder.
{ } Excellent Simon & Garfunkel FAQ (homepage).
{ } As they move advertising and capitalism into virgin territory, I want the pyschologists there to watch.
{ } XML Linking Language (XLink) is currently in committee. One day, the www hypertext won't suck:
This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink), which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links.
The XLink Extended Links look interesting.
More interesting still is XPointer (XML Pointer Language) which provides a way to reference fragments of xml documents. The possibilities are intriguing; I could see someone building a whole document CVS on top of Mozilla with these kind of tools one day.
{ } Me-mo: Add atomz.com search to this site. [via Blogger howto]
{ } Question: Dirk now works by parsing the path in the url /dirk/path. This is useful [extra information is in the 'title' attribute of the span around 'useful'. You can tell by its colour]. I've done this by putting an ErrorDocument 404 in the .htaccess of /dirk/ with an internal redirect to the main cgi which returns a status 200 OK so older browsers don't get confused. Randal L. Schwartz has a column on a 404 handler that dynamically generates icons.
Now here's my problem. Every access to a url under /dirk/ gets listed in Apache's errorlog: Ugly. http-analyze lists all of these in it's Not Found report. Okay I can make http-analyze ignore anything under /dirk/ but it's not an elegant solution.
So my question is: How can I let Apache know that 404s under /dirk/ aren't really errors and to record them as hits instead? Is there a better way of achieving what I've done? All this given that I can only use .htaccess, not httpd.conf, and mod_rewrite isn't available. Your thoughts most appreciated.
{ 06.20 } My name... is Baltor. My sworn enimy's* Altor and Zaltor. My name... is Altor. I come from a planet far, far away... My name! ...is Zaltor! I come from a planet much, much further away...
{ } Keep up to date on UK unmetered ISPs.
{ } BT owns the patent on hyperlinks and hear this, you're going to pay. Twats.
{ } Two of the stupidest trademarks in the entire world: flake-ectible™ and Petography™. Words fail me*.
{ 06.18 } I like monkeys. Other people don't. How do we meet in the middle? How do we resolve this conflict? Answer: put monkeys in their bed, monkeys up their nose. Stuff their pockets with monkeys. Monkeys for breakfast, monkeys for dinner. And keep on feeding them these fucking monkeys until they say "Okay, okay, just keep your damn monkeys!". That works. The moral of this story: disagreements are only in the mind.