Thursday, November 29, 2001

Via doc.weblogs.com: Jabber Asks the Tough Question - "How do you make money with something that becomes ubiquitous internet infrastructure? It's a question Jabber is asking about instant messaging and presence." Answer: Develop a non proprietary open protocol, an open source implementation of that protocol and a proprietary value added implementation which you sell. That's what the Jabber folks are attempting to do it appears. 11:33:02 PM

Congrats on two years of blogging, Garret! 10:53:39 PM

What is truth?:"This week Doc blogged an endorsement of Thomas Friedman's column titled The Real War in the New York Times which spoke about defeating religious totalitarianism. In today's NY Times letters to the editor 2 out of the five letters accuse Friedman of a type of intolerance" 10:51:19 PM

Wu-ftpd Remote Root Hole [Slashdot] - Yet another reason not to run an ftp daemon on your system. 4:37:27 PM

BC Hydro's HydroWeb is one of Jakob Nielsen's 10 Best Intranet Designs of 2001 12:35:30 PM

New York Times 2000:Boom Box "The new technology from Tivo and replay provides the ultimate in television convenience. It will also spy on you, destroy prime time and shatter the power of the mass market." - If Replay or TiVo ever come to Canada, I'd definitely buy one so I can skip the commericals and watch only the stuff I like when I like. 12:32:04 PM

Via dangerousmeta.com: FolderFilter, yet another Zope product that I don't understand! But I am learning Zope so this is hopefully a temporary incomprehension! 12:18:47 PM

Charming Python: Updating your Python reading list, Part 2 12:16:14 PM

Linux Routers: A Book Review 11:57:09 AM

missingmatter blogs invisible ideas that are "undetected" by most 10:47:13 AM

W3C XML-FO Spec - warning 400 pages! 10:44:55 AM

Elliotte Rusty Harold's intro to XSL-FO - from The XML Bible, 2nd edition, yet another book to pick up some day 10:44:03 AM

Using XSL-FO to create printable documents - uses Apache's very cool FOP module to convert XML to PDF 10:40:47 AM

Portable database reporting using Java and XML 10:39:25 AM

John Robb: Personal branding and K-Logs - I think everyone should have an externally visible K-Log (and someday the web will be so ubiquitious and k-logging will be easy enough that most everybody will have a k-log) but that's just me. The down side is that it can show your true personality which some people may not want to reveal :-) 10:35:02 AM

Via Simon: A million random digits, great for testing your code! 10:32:07 AM

Via Simon: fishrush.com's blog 10:27:31 AM

The notion of guanxi that Philip Wolf talks about sounds very similar to the "social hub" concept that I am very fond of. 10:20:45 AM

Yaysoft has yet another blog portal - This one is fed by weblogs.com 10:17:07 AM

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