Saturday, 6 July 2002

Axis Books Axis: The Next Generation of Java Soap ISBN: 1861007159 $72.00 Anyone know anything about this book? I was about to pony up for the O'Reilly "Java & SOAP" book. Or, at least that's what I think I was about to buy. 8:26:13 PM

Cryovac Mouse Cryo Mouse Mod: This has to be one of the best looking mods I've seen in a long time. [rebelutionary] Cryovac'd Lego Mouse. Yummo. Now my girlfriend wants it. Argh!!! :) Actually she wants to know who is willing to supply a complete kit of bits so she can do it. HoooBoy. I didn't tell ya that I bought her a Dremel for one of her birthdays. :) 8:10:34 PM

Disposable Credit Cards Disposable email addresses and credit card numbers. Matt Griffith points to an ingenious anti-spam scheme based on the notion of disposable email addresses: ... [Jon's Radio] What ever did happen with the whole Disposable Credit Card numbers gig? I could really do with them occasionally ... ;) 8:03:40 PM

Capatilism II Review Just started to have a play with Capatalism II Demo off the cover of a PC Power Play I had sitting around. What is it with people writing software that tries to re-implement traditional gui standards using game sdk's? They almost always get it wrong in enough places such that the user is always slightly off-balance. And why do they always do it at 640x480? My laptop's LCD does a pretty piss-poor job of interpolating 640x480. Not happy Jan. 6:51:18 PM

Janis Ian's views on RIAA [...] everyone's raving about Janis Ian's essay: The Internet Debacle - An Alternative View [thnx Tim] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Damn good read. I think we all knew this already. The record companies are shit scared of being disintermediated. They just can't say so, as no really cares one way or another about a bunch of self-centered greedy barstards. Heh. 4:10:03 PM

Palladium the unbreakable DRM/Privacy system Personally, I think that the technologies of TCPA are a critical step for us to enable true freedom of speech protections and democracy via the web (and I have felt this way since before the Intel chip-ID scheme got shot down the first time).  The Internet is the most powerful human connection mechanism ever devised, and is the best chance we've ever had of disintermediating societal governance.  But people need to be able to trust it, and without the entore stack working in concert, from the chip on up, there is no way to provide that. [Better Living Through Software] Personally, I believe that any one who thinks that a complete end to end privacy solution can actually be built is dreaming. There is no such thing as an unbreakable encryption system. And, unless I miss my guess Palladium is trying to be such a beast. Hohum. 4:02:10 PM

Mozilla coding for dummies, please Blender Goes Open Source [Slashdot] I hope someone gets the time to write a book that explains how that source base works. I'd pay money for something like that. Likewise, I'd pay dosh for a good book on the Mozilla code base. 2:37:38 PM

RSS Bookmarks Rusty knows RSS. While fixing my little RSS bug, I started looking for an alternative to the Jakarta Commons Digester RSS classes. I did not find an alternative, but I did find this nice little write-up of RSS and RSS 0.9.1 vs. RSS 1.0 by Elliote Rusty Harold. Now, why can't I find Rusty's RSS feed? [Blogging Roller] More stuff I need to follow get onto reading. 2:35:26 PM

More Java Libs By the way, I released OSWorkflow 1.0 final a couple days back, as well as OSCore 1.2.4. Nothing huge in either release, but it's nice to have some stable releases available to download. Next up is OSUser, we need a release badly! [PSquad's Corner] More toys I have to play with. Hey Mike, here's one to spin you out, I used OSCache for bringing one of F2's ill-fated websites up to speed. I was caching the results of going to back end legacy systems for ASX share price feeds. So yes, you can use OSCache to cache anything. And reading source code is good for your soul... :) 2:33:45 PM

Power vs Itanium2 The 64-bit saga POWER4 vs Itanium 2.. The Inquirer: The 64-bit saga POWER4 vs Itanium 2. [Hack the Planet] Cute article on CPU architectures. Core brief, watch IBM's POWER series duke it out with the Itanic brotherhood. Personally I am hoping the Opteron (sp?) series pulls through, but most press is pretty down on AMD. I like AMD. 2:30:50 PM

Searching for KnowledgeApp Question: How do you organize your knowledge? [Gerhard Froehlich] In short, badly. I desperatly want a combined browser, email client, blog tool, and personal WikkiWikki that automagically makes summary threads for me to sift through. I am thankful that I have, according to my girlfriend, near photographic memory for technical details. I don't think I have photographic memory, it is just that these technical details are interesting. 2:28:05 PM

Magna Carta Morons in the News: "The truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" boasts Supreme Court. The Supreme Court says that National Security (tm) would be endangered if hearings for suspected terrorists are open to the public. After all, they do so much better at "protecting" you when you don't know what they're doing, don't they? [Morons Dot Org] Continuing erosion of the Magna Carta. Sigh. 2:24:05 PM

I want RSS feeds.. Another Cocooner blogs. He's Ivelin Ivanov, Cocoon committer and author of the XMLForm framework and of the WebServicesProxy generator. [Be Blogging] And where is the RSS feed? Sheesuss. (Yeah, yeah, I know, I need to d/l a certain RssDistiller. Or write something up in java/python/perl/ruby/lisp/scheme. Foo.) 12:23:32 PM

Beware, Mozilla fixes links behind your back The Link on Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog is broken. Check out: BouncyCastle [Gerhard Froehlich] You are right. I tested the link, and it works fine in my Mozilla Nightly, but upon checking out DNS records, it would appear the Mozilla is invisbly fixing things up for me. Sorry about that. 12:01:45 PM

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