Bear Flag Republic Radio Weblog

After three weeks of corner-turning and mission-critical work with lots of breakage potential, I just did a little programming project that absolutely no one is depending on or waiting for. There's a little story first. A long time ago when weblogs.com was starting, we had a little thing where people could choose their own Zeldman icons and when they updated the icon would appear on Scripting News (with a link of course). When we did the big weblogs.com corner-turn last fall, the icons came back (on the weblogs.com home page), but only some of the weblogs-with-icons made the transition. I've been tracking updates of the Zeldman-iconified weblogs since the corner-turn, and today I finally was in the right place in the right mood to write out an XML feed (every fifteen minutes) with the in-use icons. For each icon it says when the weblog last updated (in GMT), how many times it has updated since we started tracking, and links to the website. Maybe there's some interesting data to track here? I don't know. You tell me.   [Scripting News]
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Now for something serious and important. Sjoerd Visscher is tuning into the work that Jeremy Bowers is doing to get Jabber running in Radio and Frontier. We'll intersect with this, Murphy-willing a couple of weeks after we ship Radio Community Server (still on for Monday). Here's where it gets really interesting. The Jabber guys like Radio. Heh. So as a community I feel it's our job to make their protocol work in the environment and then say Let's Go with gusto. Inch by inch.  [Scripting News]
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Pricing. Radio Community Server will be under $1000 per server per year. Licensed in the standard UserLand way. $XXX gets you the software, plus one year of updates. If after a year you choose not to renew the subscription, you may continue to use the software but will not receive udates. At any time you can choose to renew, and get caught up with the latest features and fixes. It will run in either Radio 8 ($39.95) or Frontier/Manila 8 ($899).  [Scripting News]
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Intel's revenue outlook stable. The chipmaker says revenue for the first quarter will come to between $6.6 billion and $6.9 billion, within the range of its earlier prediction of $6.4 billion to $7 billion. [CNET News.com]
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This Is a Real Quest for Maps. David Rumsey's online map collection has introduced a revolutionary, accessible way for people to experience old maps by comparing them to modern geospatial data. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]
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A Little Neanderthal in All of Us. A scientist re-analyzes DNA samples and concludes that humans interbred with other populations hundreds of thousands of years ago. His conclusions aren't widely embraced, however. [Wired News]
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Groucho Marx. "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." [Quotes of the Day]
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Forking hell - Ballmer tells how Sun could destroy Windows. Dr Evil plan to generate millions of different versions [The Register]
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