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Endangered species. Why are there no more rugged, self-reliant he-men like the subject of Elizabeth Gilbert's "The Last American Man"? Because no women will put up with them. [Salon.com]
Don't give the customer what they want, give them what they need. Heh.
6:09:03 PM 
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The blogging revolution. Sometimes it feels like we're part of a revolution. As Dave says: [Be Blogging]
The reason why blogging wont go away: Writing, and being creative in general, is addictive. So addictive that I don't particularly mind that almost no one reads my blog. Its enough that I have the opportunity to write it. And read back through it and cull it for useful tools n stuff.
3:56:04 PM
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He said, he said.. Nick says: "Most importantly, big media, corporations and marketers are only now *beginning* to discover the new web publishing. So let's not write off weblogs just yet." [evhead]
Game for the audience - spot the mistake Dave made. Then see where I have made the same mistake in my own weblog. Heh. It's funny, because it is so easy to do.
3:46:33 PM
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Looks like http://arxiv.org/ is running some form of scientific paper archive. Ohhh, baby, I could loose serious hours of sleep working through that collection.
[Later...] According to slashdot, it is a pre-print archive server. Just thank god that the scientific publications don't demand to own the pre-prints like the Music Industry own recording artist's out-takes and the like.
3:28:13 PM
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I'm not sure if this IRC log is real - but if it is some girl is truly loopy, and some guy somewhere is truly fucked. [rebelutionary]
I kinda suspect its not ircbut some other weird instant messaging client. But the damage. Woah. That smarts.
3:22:38 PM
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OpenCM. It is now released and usable! [Advogato]
Looks cute. So, how much work to make it work inside Eclipse?
3:06:50 PM
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Online ads, e-mail don't click. What's that? Yet another 'new' form of advertising is seeings its effectiveness drop over time? How could that be? [Tomalak's Realm] [rebelutionary]
Funniest thing with this article is that on loading it pops up a popup ad, and is surrounded with dancing gherkin ads. Its almost as if the page is ashamed of it's livery, but can't contemplate not being out in public in fishnets and chrome buckles. Eggads. Tis ugly. I wish them a quiet death.
3:05:21 PM
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I want my company to be...
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What do you want from your workplace?
(adapted from Charles Miller's The Desktop Fishbowl and here are the ones I'm not sure about for different reasons)
- somewhere 90% of the company isn't old and married
- somewhere that owning a copy of Stevens Unix Network Programming Volume 1 doesn't make you feel like an weirdo
[rebelutionary]
So, Mike, where do I apply for a job? And I even promise to hide my copy of Unix Network Programming Volume 1 ... ;)
2:53:03 PM
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The YAFL programming language. The compiler support facility is the most significant difference between YAFL and the other modern third generation languages. The compiler support facility is the availability of the compiler passes and its attached intermediate data structures as documented and usable YAFL constructs, defined as part of the standard library.
I am not sure how different this is from reflection facilities, MOPs etc.
YAFL is the implementation language of the RainCode tool chain. The so-called RainCode Engine can be used for static analysis of programs. The tool parses source code, and provides a scripting language that allows you to walk the annotated syntax tree. The scripting language is procedural/event-driven.
[Lambda the Ultimate]
A programming language designed with the idea that people are going to try and write fancy schmancy UI's for it. Looking at the two major Java UIs I have used - NetBeans and Eclipse - both happen to have major chunks of their respective java compilers built into the editor. And then look at perl, which is busily building the ability to slave an editor to perl's idea of which bits are what. I like this. I sure as hell hope that YAFL has some leaning towards open sourceness there somewhere...
2:36:07 PM
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Jon Schull on visualizing blogthreads. Jon Schull has been playing with a way to visualize a sequence of related blog items: ... [Jon's Radio]
I want this. But I have to admit, making this work is going to require solving several hard problems. Like natural language parsing for one. Ugh.
Maybe there are some cheap UI hacks that could get us closer. Say, extending RSS such that there is a tag, or even or somesutch. Not that I have read the RSS spec in years, so take everything that I say with large chunks of salt.
2:22:33 PM
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Rich clients, web services, and web analytics. Today we measure web activity using logs and client-side JS hacks to enrich the logs. As reported in this story on web analytics, the combination of these two techniques represents the current sweet spot: ... [Jon's Radio]
I believe that users will happily let software authors spy on them iff the information thus garnered is used to improve their experience.
If the information thus captured is used to try and sell me, Joe Average User, penis enlargement technology using farm animals located in Nigeria, I will not be happy. In fact, I will refuse to open mail except from people I recognise. And, even then, only if the subject line doesn't promise to make me money fast.
On the other hand, if the information is used to clean up hard to use aspects of the tool, reducing the number of steps for common tasks, then yes take my clickstreams and I'll be happy. Tis the reason I'd love it if Mozilla nightlies were built with talkback enabled. Not that moz nightlies have crashed on me in quite some time.
2:18:50 PM
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BPMI.org releases BPML 1.0. "BPML 1.0 supports the modeling of end-to-end processes including private implementations and public interfaces for transactional and collaborative business process." [toolbox]
Am I the only person who goes cross eyed reading about all of this stuff? I would have thought some people would have learned from the failure of EDI. Making things complicated isn't going to make you successful.
2:10:05 PM
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bob. Got a note from bob after the SEDA note that beep4j is apparently very SEDA-like. Cool. [james strachan's musings]
I have to admit thinking about using beep as the basis of a p2p tool I have been thinking about. And having a communications lib that automatically queues up work, well thats really quite cute. Cool.
I wonder how much work it will take to make beep4j do the xml-rpc over beep protocol? (Yes there is a draft standard on xml-rpc over beep.) Hmmm
2:07:23 PM
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XPlanner looks like it could be really useful stuff. Clean integration with Maven would rock. I wonder if we could have a more XML file based (rather than SQL) version of XPlanner so that more traditional open source projects like Jakarta could make use of XPlanner, just by having the planning informaation in XML files then autogenerating the reports as part of the Maven build... [james strachan's musings]
Looks cute. Now only if it could be tied back to a weblog tool to ... *duck*
2:01:55 PM
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Eclipse 2.0 for Mac OS X instructions and screen shot. [Hack the Planet] [The Desktop Fishbowl]
That screen shot has me basically sold on getting a mac laptop as my next box. Cute looking development environment with unix command lines. Schwiiing
(Hidden thought - being able to do native looking apps for both OS X and Win32 - with Gtk apps thrown in for free - really makes one think again about the possibility of doing true cross platform app development. Cute really.)
1:55:21 PM
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The problem with getting sick and spending two days at home? Catching up with my rss-addiction. God-damn I have some serious backlog here. Oh well. :)
12:58:41 PM
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Evan Williams: "I notice that, more and more, people link to the print-friendly version of articles when just linking for reading on the web. The reasons are obvious—these designs being less cluttered and often easier to read, not just easier to print. But I wonder if the sites this happens to are paying attention to this and, if so, if they care." [lawrence's notebook]
Oh how I'd wish they'd notice. I am getting to the point of firing up muffin just to strip out flash advertisements. Most web publishers have gotten to the point of being user antagonistic. And, we all know how well that works. Not
12:56:55 PM
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Java to become dominant language next year Two recent studies are showing that Java will become the dominant language in corporations next year. [rebelutionary]
This after years of pro-microsoft pulp press presaging the iminent immolation of Java. (Gee that was fun. I should do that more often. :) THe most fun part is the last liner:
Other interesting statistics concern the drop of Unix and the emergence of Linux.
Is it just me, or do other people out there who fail to see a demarcation between Unix and Linux? As an ex solaris sysadmin who ran Linux as a desktop while sysad'ing, I find it difficult to demarcate Unix and Linux. Sure, pkgadd sucks arse in comparison to rpm/dpkg, but what is the go here?
12:24:35 PM
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Hint for other clumsies like myself. HttpClient handles redirects internally. In other words, RTFM. D'uh.
9:40:54 AM
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