Scripting News

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:25:11 GMT

Chuck Shotton: "I've written up a set of proposed extensions to the RSS 0.94 draft to resolve some ambiguities about content types and encoding formats."

Sun, 01 Sep 2002 02:56:15 GMT

Garth needs some help from someone who knows the internals of Jabber.

Sun, 01 Sep 2002 02:59:09 GMT

To Joel, here's why Groove can't bet exclusively on being a platform. "Most proposed platforms don't make it. It's just a fact. It's not my fault. It's not yours."

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 21:14:21 GMT

Don Park writes about corruption in Korea.

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:53:30 GMT

Doc: "It's a start, but it's got that delegated, glands-off look. It's you know: a site."

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:43:26 GMT

NY Times: "At AOL, Mr Colburn and Mr Gilburne made an oddly complementary pair, several people who worked with them said. Mr Gilburne is a broad, strategic thinker with a quiet, professorial demeanor. He is prone to stroking his beard, alluding to Shakespeare and making Delphic comments about the technological future. Mr Colburn, on the other hand, is as volatile as Mr Gilburne is sedate. People who worked with them said Mr Colburn paced conference rooms with bleary eyes and a five o'clock shadow. He was known for wearing Armani suits over black T-shirts depicting cartoon characters. And Mr Colburn was also as intensely focused on details as his mentor was on the big picture."

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:51:43 GMT

John Patrick found some free bandwidth in Ocean City, NJ.

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:43:21 GMT

There's a new meme going round. Tell me who you are in five words or less. Easy easy. First the long version. I am a man. That means I dig holes. And then fill them in. Then dig some more. So I can do it in two words. Still diggin.

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:09:36 GMT

Peterme has no credit. Interesting story. Read the comments, they're interesting too.

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:28:16 GMT

Last year on this day I wrote about taboo-busting and aging.

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:30:14 GMT

Two years ago today I explained why the misnamed RSS 1.0 was a setback for RSS. No one cared. Sad.

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:20:50 GMT

Sam Ruby posted a table showing the evolution of various formats called RSS. I sent him a bunch of corrections and they were incorporated.

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:34:56 GMT

Five years ago today, a princess died in a car crash.

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:22:26 GMT

Breathwork and open source. You might think one has nothing to do with the other. But someone on a mail list devoted to breathwork, that I subscribe to, has constructed an amazing argument, fantastic in its boldness, with elements of truth, but quite misleading.

Not caring

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:01:10 GMT

Showing that you care is something you're not supposed to do. Better to stay aloof, uninvolved, like a TV character. "I don't really care," I say, when nothing could be further from the truth. This is the American way. (Or at least the California way.)

But, at some point you have to take a stand. Maybe it's in the last days or hours of life, struggling against cancer, heart disease or diabetes, or whatever's gonna getcha. Maybe at that point it's okay to care, to take a stand, to fight. But I suspect not. Even then people say "What's he getting so riled up for?" The answer of course is fairly obvious.

It's called living, and it's worth getting agitated over, in theory.