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XML.Com: Building XML-RPC Clients in C.  John Robb: "Is the US Post Office worth saving?" News.Com: AOL adds file sharing to ICQ. Weblogs.Com changes are now available in RSS 0.92. Graham Dumpleton: "It looks like the web based XML-RPC debugger I was providing on the OSE web site on SourceForge is no more." NY Times: "The nation's longest period of economic growth, spanning 99 months, came to an official close in the third quarter, the government reported today."  Jerry Pournelle rolled his truck in Death Valley in 1998 and had to walk out. Interesting article about Sun's James Gosling and SOAP. I'd like to meet with him now that I know that he's interested in SOAP. He must be a neighbor. I see him in the grocery store from time to time. Next time I'll introduce myself. Apparently the Gosling article requires some kind of cookie that I have. Clicker beware. You may be asked for a password. Some people think this is the end of the world and indicates moral corruption on my part. You are hereby acknowledged in this point of view.  Of course there are more serious things to worry about.  Postscript to yesterday's examination of reader-friendly timezone strings -- it's a hopeless cause. Instead we're going to have a pref where the user can enter a geographic location for his or her weblog. Like San Francisco, CA or Singapore or George Matesky's Basement. I will enter Pacific, and when my weblog updates it will say Last Updated: 12:37PM Pacific. That's the best we can do until the world gives names to each of the timezones. It might be a useful exercise for the world to do this, we need to work with the UN or some other geopolitical organization. Maybe it would be like naming hurricanes. It could be a symbolic change with large economic impact, and could loosen the world up a little bit, perhaps with some humor. The Russians and Pakistanis have to share a timezone. Russia and China share a few. Perhaps we could name the zones after Nobel Peace Prize winners? It would give people an alternative, peaceful path to immortality.  Register: "WWW creator Tim Berners Lee has given his strongest hint yet that the W3C organization he created ought to shun the idea of accepting royalty-bearing patents as web standards. He also acknowledges that the move could lead to the fragmentation of the Web." Another release of HierMenus. Now might be a good time to ask why the leading browser vendors don't just implement a reliable and easy way for Web developers to add menus to Web apps. As far as I remember, and my memory may not be perfect (heh) the browser guys never did features that Web developers wanted. Too focused on destroying each other to be bothered to listen to developers. That Microsoft now wants independent developers to invest in their platform is amazing. It'll never happen. |
 
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