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I assure you that this post has nothing to do with any "discussions" that my be going on on other weblogs. But I'm watching the History channel and I've just learned that before the Middle Ages there was no queen piece in the game of chess. That piece just didn't exist. But during the middle ages the queen was added to the game. And, of course, the queen is now the most powerful piece on the chess board. In many ways, the king is the weakest.
10:21:39 PM #
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The movie itself sounds a shade less than compelling, but Mac fan Ebert makes it a point to note that "this is the first movie in which an entire iMac commercial runs on TV in the background of a shot." [As the Apple Turns]
Copy & Past. Copy & Paste.
8:59:43 PM #
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We've never had occasion to venture into a Gateway store, but we're told they have a "barn motif." [As the Apple Turns]
8:55:36 PM #
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Oh yeah. My wife had another idea for a name: web kabob. The idea here is that, like a shish kabob, my weblog is just the delicious bits of other people's weblogs served on a skewer.
Please feel free to use any of these ideas.
8:35:12 PM #
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I've thought of a couple of names I could have used for my weblog. I'm not going to change names now. But perhaps I should have called it Copy & Paste. As my last post shows, that's pretty much all I do. Copy from some site and paste it into my weblog.
My wife also came up with an interesting name: Seedless Watermelon. It's a bit subtle, but I think you'll appreciate it after I explain it. A seedless watermelon can't grow any children. It has no seeds. So there's no possibility of anything new growing. That's like my weblog. Nothing new. No seeds to grow into new ideas. Just a rehash of everybody else's ideas.
That's my wife. Isn't she a card :)
8:31:33 PM #
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That foe is a new generation of free-floating trading systems built on an ever-changing network of PCs swapping encrypted files, a system that's everywhere and nowhere at the same time. These systems don't rely on central servers like Napster. They can function, possibly indefinitely, without any commercial entity owning or controlling them. [BW Online]
8:27:07 PM #
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Now I've fixed the name of the Deadly Bloody Serious link at the right. But do realize that once you get there you need to follow all of the links :)
11:36:24 AM #
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Garth of Deadly Bloody Serious fame, has at least two weblogs I need to read. One is the link I just gave you, and one is specifically about Radio. I think I've got the name of the Radio in my blogroll, but it links to his main weblog. Sorry about that. The problem is that he wasn't posting to his Radio weblog, so I thought perhaps I was linking to the wrong weblog. But now I find that in the last couple of days he's been posting to his radio weblog and not his main weblog. I need to read both, of course.
11:34:46 AM #
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UserLand has released the details of a new driver architecture for its news aggregator. Burningbird has some comments that I think are right on. I'm really only familiar with the C++ analogy and I think it is basically right. When invoking the method of an object in C++ you are basically doing a method lookup in a virtual table (vtable). If there isn't an entry in the vtable of your object, then the lookup continues to your superclass, which is kind of what is happening in the aggregator driver architecture. What might be kinda cool (though probably very difficult to get right) would be if the XML payload could contain its own driver. I don't actually think if is technically impossible. The driver is just a script (and it is essentiallly interpreted, as Burningbird points out) and that script could be contained within the XML of a news item. Of course, if the script is long and every XML payload had to contain it, well, that wouldn't be so much fun. But perhaps the payload could have a pointer to the driver script and if a particular driver didn't exist for that XML, then Radio could go get it, install it, compile it, and use it to parse the XML. That way you could subscribe to new kinds of news without having to worry about whether or not you have the driver for it. You just subscribe and it'll come for free the next time you get an update.
11:29:35 AM #
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It's a cold, rainy day in San Diego. You probably aren't impressed, though, are you :)
11:14:02 AM #
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(Come to think of it, there are all these Radio weblogs spending much of their time extolling Radio features. Might as well staple a Userland ad to your butts, people. At least then we'll be spared some of the noise when you sit down.) [Burningbird]
Yep. Burningbird's back. And just in time, as we were all falling farther under Dave's spell :)
Poor Burningbird is having a hard time right now, but she couldn't stay away from her weblog. Which is good for all of us who read her weblog, I guess. I hope it makes her feel better writing it. I feel like we may be feeding off of her pain.
8:07:12 AM #
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2002
Will Leshner.
Last update:
3/16/02; 8:07:14 AM.
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