Tuesday, February 05, 2002

DIY Web Services with Radio 8: I wrote a little web service based on a script I wrote back then I was interested in the "Turnings" book and had scraped all the generational data off the associated website. Anyway, if you give my web service a birth year, it will spit back a paragraph of text on the highlights of that generation. So a call like this: <%params = {1961}; xml.rpc ("127.0.0.1", 5335, "myHandlers.generationsInHistory", @params)%> would appear like this: Those born in the year 1961 were part of the Thirteenth generation (Millennial saeculum). Like Charles Barkley and Jodie Foster, they came of age during the Culture Wars era, and are of the Nomad archetype. Similarly, if you give my web service an era year, it will spit back a paragraph of text on the highlights of that era. So, a call like this: <%params = {1961}; xml.rpc ("127.0.0.1", 5335, "myHandlers.turningsInHistory", @params)%> would appear like this: 1961 was a year in the American High (in the Millennial saeculum). In it we had the Lost (Nomad) Generation in elderhood, the G.I. (Hero) Generation in midlife, the Silent (Artist) Generation in adulthood, and the Boom (Prophet) Generation in childhood. The question is, how are you supposed to make use of this, seeings how I'm behind a firewall? 8:37:13 AM     Comments

Apparently, macroevolution only happens when scientists are not there to observe it. But, we are getting closer. 7:43:15 AM     Comments