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Sunday, August 4, 2002
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Electronic Virtual Communications
I'm taking a virtual communications class via UoPhx to satisfy a comm elective, and its interesting to see UoPhx building custom textbooks for specialized courses. Its also interesting to see them getting a few things wrong, IMHO.
For instance, they list Instant Messeging under "electronic virtual comm" and instead of "websites", they mistakingly use the more generic term "Internet".
To set the record straight, IM actually crosses both virtual and realtime communications, where a queue of messages can effecitvely be processed in realtime, or can accumulate if not responded to immediately.
The Internet is a general medium for sending electronic packets of information from any one connected node to any other connected node. Various packet types and sequences are known as protocols, such as FTP or HTTP.
A website uses the HTTP protocol to transmit text messages, usually encoded as HTML. There's a several new kinds of websites that should be noted here: weblogs and XML-RPC sites.
Weblogs are websites where an author or authors continuously update using a log-entry format. This kind of website is suitable for personal journals, niche industry reporting, as well as general reporting and journalism. In fact, The NYTimes had given weblogs considerbale ink over the last few months, giving it crucial recognition as a new form of broadcasting.
XML-RPC sites are designed not for humans, but for computers. Basically, instead of sending text for humans to read, an XML-RPC site send bits of information that a computer program would read and process, such as stock prices, sports scores, and weather metrics. XML-RPC is often referred to with a more general term called Web Services, and there are several competing protocols similar to XML-RPC vying for standardization of the web services layer.
8:47:02 PM 
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cat got my tongue
had a really good day today. Started with a morning of play with Jackson and Paulette, then a bout of teething which was quickly squwelched via the teething hold, followed by a mellower feeding.
We spent the midday at DayOne, a combination baby store and new parent clinic. Sorta like the HomeChef store for new parents. (They're just starting up and looking for investors. To bad they don't have a website :-) We were there attending a parenting teamwork lecture, which was funny, eye-opening, and even a little bit heart-breaking.
Next, we had lunch with the good company of Susan, Matt, and their son (drawing a blank at the moment, sorry!) at Pasta Pomodoro. Then we set out on the hunt for size 2 Huggies.
We were going to shlep all the way over to Costco, but then we remembered that Toys'R'Us carries baby products, so we stopped there first and hit paydirt.
We get home just in time to feed Jackson again, but instead of acting hungary, he's angel baby for the entire feeding.
Jackson was really good all day, in fact. Paulette put him down for the night around 10ish, then she came back downstairs and we talked for an hour, telling funny stories about our earlier days as mom and dad.
She's got a really funny story about how the cat got my tongue... you should ask her about it sometime :-)
12:36:05 AM
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I've been running Jaguar for a week or so now, with mostly excellent results. The only area that seems to have taken a hit is Radio, surprisingly. That's one reason why my posts have been thin lately.
12:17:32 AM
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Monk is a funny show
Monk is a funny show, with lots of potential. His neurosis can be sustained for quite a long time :-)
12:09:54 AM
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