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where wave meets particle No Simpler than this:
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
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Hey Guys that was a fun night out! Thanks for checking in. I enjoyed John's IntraWeb presentation. The product is still no WebHub but it sure has sex-appeal. It was strangly flattering to see how Chad and crew have creating something that would extend the power of WebHub's core to many more developers.. I think HREF ought to adapt tWebAction to adapt their js ui components into the much more ambitious WebHub framework. That would make a cool combination and enable people who are locked into desktop application building to deploy more quickly. Anyway, I'm freshly reassured that there's plenty of meat in WebHub for HREF's much smaller crew to benefit from such a move. Chad! I'm taking this thing and some of what it does as a personal compliment. Good work. Thank you! I'm really glad to have led the way here. Quoting Zack Urlocker '96: "its the pioneers that take the arrows in the back." Meanwhile.. having said all that, here are the pictures from the after hours crew at Dempsey's. It was fun seeing you all and its been great to reconnect. cu in two months! | ||
| # 16:33 HelloWorld |
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Hi Alan, Joe, Jim... Hi there, glad you found my little home on the web.
Yes! I'm still breaking rocks. I've turned the earlier ones into sand for the beach and you're peeking in while I'm setting up a huge new one to whack at with the dull side of the ax :) All the best, and YES! I got copies of the photos, and YES! I'll do the grunt-work and scan and post them for everyone. Its been some time. All my best to you! | ||
| # 16:27 Radio |
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yes, tables come naturally to the mind of an outliner. but but but.. just like the code/data forks we've come to love and turned into outline scripting on the one hand and oop on the other.. but lo and behold! there's a presentation fork as well, and a context fork too! (we'll get to that one later, lets keep hiding it in the data for now).
so, dave, go figure and reinvent the product for version 1.0.. I could support that.. and a notion of link-targets independent of where you uri's (uri aliasing, actually) pretty please while we're at it! You'll have a better outliner on your hands for doing that work.
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| # 16:22 Radio |
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Tables are evil.
Dave Winer: "Those of us who use tables are part of a mass of people who learned to develop websites that way. It's impossible to get us to change. If that's your cause I'm not on board." Others (Owen, Dave, James, Sjoerd, Zeldman) have explained why table-based layouts are as archaic as Dave's viewpoint (which hasn't changed since 1996), so I'll just add a few words:
Thanks for listening. I want to sign this petition. | ||
| # 16:17 HelloWorld |
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Growing up is hard to do. I have two siblings that I had ok to neutral relationships with - until my father died 10 weeks ago. Now there is a testament.. or two.. or perhaps even three; And the relationship between us has turned sour. There is now rude name-calling, open envy and competition. In the blood. At least for now. (k&a, not p,c or f)
I'm saddened that my fathers wishes, like 'honor and respect each other', went right out the window when promises of money mixed with our incomplete childhoods. My (younger) siblings 'hord information', ally around the ones close to the purse. They'd make more in a month of honest work than what they are likely to get in the end, and the emotions now run my way are revealing pain in them that is so deep its hard to bear. Its hard to 'let be' that with my Father's death I'm now seeing the loss of whatever there was in the relationship with my siblings. It's tough. It forces me to be honest about them and our interactions in way that go beyond being supportive, sending xmas and gifts. They've never done any theraphy. I dont want to hang out with them, really. Both abuse drugs and alcohol. And yet I'm hurting over this. I wish I had some decent siblings. I wish they'd grow up and learn to be honest. Over many years I've come to like and appreciate what other blood relatives I have.. and I want my siblings to love and support me, even just reciprocally if thats as far as they can go. No go. I took a lawyer to find-fact after not hearing specifics for 8 weeks. The first thing he found was that the court had not been given my address. Fancy that. Ouch. | ||
| # 13:57 HelloWorld |
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The startup script. Coffee, email, Weblogs.Com. It used to be coffee, email, NY Times, WSJ. Times they are a changin.  [Scripting News]
Oh how true that is. There was a terrible few years when the mix had 'web-surfing and messy bookmarks' instead of 'news-aggregation i can use' since i declared my home machines to be appliances rather than computers in '95. Since the web has hit, I dont turn off my appliances any more. They've replaced the TV and Stereo, relegated tapes and video to the 'has been digitized bin', eaten up my photo-albums, all sorts of things. But I wish i could get the NYT/WSJ editorials as xml feeds fresh daily. perhaps by next year. | ||
| # 13:45 LinkLog |
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...The best definition of "transcendental" comes from a good friend of mine when asked by his high-school English teacher: "across the teeth". If you break the word down into its parts, you'll see that that is exactly what it means. [Will Leshner's Radio Weblog]
transcendental: from there you take a bite out of life! | ||
| # 13:01 LinkLog |
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The Spurious Foundation of Genetic Engineering: "The wonders of genetic science are all founded on the discovery of the DNA double helix - by Francis Crick and James Watson in 1953 - and they proceed from the premise that this molecular structure is the exclusive agent of inheritance in all living things: in the kingdom of molecular genetics, the DNA gene is absolute monarch. Known to molecular biologists as the "central dogma" the premise assumes that an organism's genome - its total complement of DNA genes = should fully account for its characteristic assemblage of inherited traits. The premise, unhappily, is false. "
..perhaps leaving room for energetics and spirituality with its notion of 'the lifestream' to find its place in an integrated framework. one which at the same time would shatter some of the notions we have about the role of technology and what/who/how god's actually working on the world today. but lets stick with the inch provided by that article for today. :) | ||
| # 04:00 HelloWorld |
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I look forward to attending a delphi-sig meeting on web-application development tonight. gave my first presentations on that topic there in july of '96. it'll be a retro evening complete with pizza and beer. i love the group, and i look forward to popping in and meeting everybody. | ||
| # 03:59 Radio |
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ok back to flatland after some real good work and a really good weekend. .. added yacc commenting to the site this afternoon. tweaked it a bit to be server independent and ran into my render nemesis. the callbacks come soooo at the wrong time its not funny, it forces you to cut and clone code. yucky. anyway, i have a problem getting at the permanent item link 'by the book', aka a callback. that means that the subjects of comment messages sent will be wrong more often than not. adding a title to the permalink link when i get the callbacks to get me to the data i neeed.
planning on renaming a few inconsistencies tomorrow. Thoughts was called HelloWorld to begin with. In various places links come up as helloWorld and Helloworld.. which works fine locally but never on the case sensitive unix servers. its a shame that the radio link mechanism does not even exist as a sub-routine. all the damn links are always gotten by hand based on code that's based on the context of where someone thought you would be calling it from. suuuuuch bad practice. but its in there. i'll patch my names and cross my fingers. also planning a credits page for this site before i get back to the pages on sonic.net | ||
| # 03:31 LinkLog |
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Doc Searls' Rotten Linkage | ||
| # 03:19 Radio |
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Tav hijacked my news aggregator! His XML feed included a redirect (commented out, below) to his new site. Hmmm... I see possibilities here. Muahahahaha!
[Phil Ackley's Radio Thingumabob] | ||
| # 03:07 HelloWorld |
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Doc says: Passing notes in the class of life Just one more answer to the "What are blogs for?" question. [Doc Searls Weblog] [The Shifted Librarian] YES. | ||
| # 02:56 LinkLog |
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...can you imagine dealing with the wetware that has been accumulating bugs over 50 to 60 years...? [Jumpgate Alwin] Actually, hasn't our genentic code been under development for millions of years? [Will Leshner's Radio Weblog]
yeah sure our genetic code is just as likely to form itself around childhood misunderstandings as our brains do when learning to see the world for what it is. with people you get 40 years suffering the same childhood mistake over and over on a routine basis. genetic evolution must have had its quirks too, quirks that live in us.. but.. c'mon.. evolution has no mind for neuroses. | ||
| # 02:52 BizBuzz |
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So what exactly is a Web Service? Internet.com tries to answer the question.
"So what exactly is a web service? Quite simply, it is a fundamentally new approach of developing a software application that can share information through Internet Protocol (IP). What makes all of this so revolutionary is that these newly created systems would be able to interact and exchange information regardless of the platform or environment."[SJL's Radio Weblog] | ||
| # 02:50 Radio |
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CSS Koolaid. I swallowed the CSS Koolaid when I moved this weblog to its own domain (although I apparently still have a few kinks to work out, hiding my CSS from non-compliant browsers). Today, Dave Winer promised to swallow the CSS Koolaid "real soon now". Chris Casciano swallows a tall new glass of it every day before breakfast. Steven Vore is still choking on it. Jonathon Delacour tried it, but ended up spitting instead of swallowing. (I think I've taken this analogy about as far as it should go.) [diveintomark]
<g> yes. youdid. was this all a takeoff from last week's.. ..um swallowing story, mark? | ||
| # 02:46 LinkLog |
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Seven Tricks that Web Users Don't Know "Web developers have all sorts of browsing tricks that they have gained from years of experience, to the point where they can't even imagine not knowing them -- right-clicking to open a new browser window, for instance, or using the arrow keys to navigate a list. To Web veterans, these things are so familiar that they seem obvious. The fact that many people don't know these tricks -- and can get completely stuck as a result -- comes as a shock. This article describes seven Web site features that typical non-technical users aren't familiar with, based on data collected from the author's own usability studies." [via Dane Carlson's Weblog]
Although this article is from last June, it's not a surprise to librarians. We see this first-hand, and we're the ones that are still teaching folks how to use a mouse, whether it's in a public, school, or special library. This is what I was getting at yesterday. [The Shifted Librarian] a good collection of the obvious. .. in netscape make the bookmarks.html file your homepage. | ||
| # 02:41 HelloWorld |
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On the other hand, here's a review of Can Love Last? by Stephen Mitchell: "A philosophically inclined psychoanalyst's daring final work explains that the ecstasy of romantic love doesn't fade away over time -- we kill it." Salon [Follow Me Here]
i thought it was a three year chemical bonding that took place.. and runs its course. you split up if you didn't learn to communicate honestly, deepening what was there. something like that. | ||
| # 02:35 BizBuzz |
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A Matter of Trust: "Blogging should be mandatory for every CEO. Screw insider trading disclosure, open up the walls that shrould Fortune's top 500 in secrecy. For never again will I trust the words of an analyst, accountant or spokeperson. if it doesn't come from the horses mouth, it just doesn't cut the mustard." [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom] | ||
| # 02:28 Radio |
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"Here's an aha! (A mind bomb(?), at least for me!) Dane Carlson has figured out a way to find (with Google) sites that offer RSS feeds. As I understand it these are the sites that Radio users can add to their news aggregator. I'll be experimenting with this." [Steve Pilgrim's Radio Weblog]
See what I mean about Google? And BTW, if you're a Radio newbie like me, Steve's blog is must-see reading because he's asking all of the questions I haven't had time to ask. More importantly, he's getting answers. [The Shifted Librarian] | ||
| # 02:19 LinkLog |
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Daves Picks. 11. February, 2002 - government isn't the solution permalink
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Web Architect: The Crime of Sharing. John Perry Barlow. I know that this is a fairly obvious observation. That's why I'm stunned that so many kinds of sharing have suddenly, without public debate, become criminal acts. For instance, lending a book to a friend is still all right, but letting him read the same book electronically is now a theft. [Tomalak's Realm] | ||
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The Geek's Guide to Practical Brain Chemistry. Haven't read it fully, but class is ending.[markpasc.blog] something to read over breakfast | ||
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Microsoft readies tools to power Web services plan and Borland brings .Net into view what niche are we going for today? [IDG InfoWorld] | ||