Sunday, December 09, 2001

Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL - Part 2: Getting Started with MySQL - In case we decide to use PHP and MySQL for my next website! 11:41:07 PM

Give me back my MySQL Command Line! - a web based command line for MySQL for people using ISPs that don't provide Unix Shell access 11:39:19 PM

Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X: Part 1 11:36:51 PM

Modern Civil Disobedience.  The most overlooked thing about free music (thanks for the intellectual justification Lawrence Lessing!) ala Morpheus: you listen to groups you would never buy.  Of all the strange things, I found myself listening to Jimmy Buffet and Cap't and Tenille today.  Must be a severe retro phase.  With copyrights extended well past our lifetimes (up from 14 years a century ago), it is a moral imperative that people borrow music.  Why?  It creates a broad culture not defined by the narrow cultural managers in Big Co land.  In my mind, anything over 14 years old is free game.  No guilt.  We live in an age when America has allowed corporations to defend themselves and deal with individuals without goernment intervention.  Wrong.   Corporate control of the populace is fascism....  Unlimited control of copyright and easy patents are symptomatic.  A lack of anti-trust controls is symptomatic.  It is amazing how easily we can glide into this situation.  Getting out is more problematic.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog] - More excellent food for thought from John Robb! 11:04:56 PM

From the "It seems like a galaxy far, far away" department :-)! - The Toronto Star's weekend articles on Nortel (warning, linkrot may occur in 2 weeks!) Nortel's Roth a raging bull until bitter end Nortel's directors missing in action John Roth Speaks Out Behind Nortel's takeover spree How a Giant Fell to Earth Nortel's Spending Spree 10:42:52 PM

XML RPC for PHP from eZ systems 10:02:33 PM

Rahul Dave's XML/XUL/Jabber future of email vision 10:01:31 PM

Adam Curry's future of email stream of consciousness 10:00:35 PM

Latest version of Mac OS X Metadata proposal 9:56:33 PM

Extremism in Opposition to Liberty is a Vice - " It's time for Mr. Ashcroft to be forced out of his position and replaced with an Attorney General who is familiar with the Consitutition and statutory U.S. law. The fact that he defends arbitrary treatment of citizens and non-citizens in the U.S., separate non-standard (non-military) treatment of foreign resident or visitors, and criticizes criticism of attacks on liberty all disqualify him from the job." 9:52:34 PM

Working on CityDesk, Part Five - "XML is a Dumb Format For Storing Data " - It may be a dumb format for storing data but it's an excellent format for data interchange. Right now, CityDesk locks you in to their tool if you are not an HTML coder. Radio Userland, Manila, etc. don't because they export their data in XML which programmers (e.g. Joel converted his Manila site to CityDesk!!!!) can easily write to convert to whatever system you use next. As it stands now, I wouldn't buy CityDesk because: 1. I am locked into it's format since it doesn't export the files to an open format such as an XML based one 2. The URLs are meaningless! 9:35:47 PM

Mac OS X Anti Metadata Petition 9:26:43 PM

The case against Bin Laden from Jim Roepcke's Adolfcroft thread. 9:11:06 PM

Independent:Video shows CIA threatened to let prisoner be killed - If this is true, this is just not on as the Brits say! 8:58:55 PM

Jim Roepcke has dubbed US Attourney General Ashcroft, "Adolfcroft" and this has prompted a spirited discussion on his website. 7:25:12 PM

The Woz has joined the board of Danger; yet another outfit hawking an integrated PDA and phone that runs Java Apps. Maybe this one will have the 'ole Woz magic and actually become popular! 7:22:53 PM

Another reason not to use Outlook on the PC is that you can't disable receiving HTML mail. Fortunately, the No-HTML plugin allows you to do just that! 7:20:16 PM

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