Monday, 12 August 2002

True recognition Will CGI Collapse the Hollywood Economy? [Slashdot] I am actually hoping that CGI affordability will actually bring recognition to the one group who have been much maligned by hollywood - the writers. All too often we see drivel that was obviously put together to tie a bunch of action sequences together. Like, say, Blade II. 8:21:16 PM

Pistols at ten paces Harry vs Shakespeare - it's no contest really. Charles sounds like he had a top Saturday night. Eating a Shakespeare's pie and getting locked out of his apartment. You see he thinks his first mistake is leaving the key inside. No, clearly the first mistake was not heading for Harry's which has the best pies in Sydney More in: Picking Locks: How I spent my Saturday evening, by Charles Miller. [rebelutionary] Right. So we are having a meetup at Harry's to test the validity of this claim. If Harry's pie should prove inferior (by what ever ambiguous rating scheme that Charles dreams up), we shall be a-dunking the Rebelutionary in our midst. Now we can't say fairer than that, can we? 8:14:05 PM

Picking a logging library Logging for Java apps. We're looking into overhauling Zoe's logging functionality. It needs it. So, we're lookign at logging tools and, while everyone knows about log4j I just came across LogKit, which looks to have good functionality with less overhead. Anyone have any experience with it? e-mail me at masukomi@masukomi.org [weblog.masukomi.org] I am a Log4j fan, but IIRC LogKit has the ability to interface with log4j. My personal code would be to write a short peice of code and then instrument it both ways, or build your own thin interface layer and have all the code to interface to the logger in one place. Or use a coin. ;) 7:40:34 PM

Logical Lemonade Yum.. Turns out ants like Mike's Hard Lemonade. You can't fault them, really. [evhead] I like Mike's Hard Lemonade. Am I an ant? 7:29:56 PM

Money is for the birds Contributing to non Open Source development... would you?. I wonder how this would work. Would users contribute to a commercial product? It's like Open Source but not. Would you? What would you want in return? Is money the only motivator? [rebelutionary] Money? It pays the bills, but that's hardly a reason to work on a code base. I'd work on JIRA for a series of reasons: Hacking on JIRA allows me to do something I need/want to do (project management), I like you guys, and It is fun to be part of the community. No mention of money, because that takes the fun away. I remember reading somewhere that a guy would consider working for free if he didn't have to do the non-coding stuff (meetings, progress reports, talk to users, etc). It's true. My charge out rate is high, but I have to work with [beeeeeep] on a daily basis .... 7:12:56 PM

Some oracle doco URLs Some oracle doco: Oracle Documentation Library, Release 8.1.7 Oracle8i SQL Reference Release 3 (8.1.7) 3:35:37 PM

Identity theft virus Funny news of the day - both myself and my father have had our email identities stolen by Klez. Do we need much more evidence about the future utility of email? Or, at least the requirement for a widespread, easy to use, identity system. Preferrably not one that forces everyone to pay money to some central registrar. I don't trust centralized registrars. 2:14:16 PM

Expanding tree in javascript XHTML 2.0 and the nl element. XHTML working draft 2.0 is here. Hmmm. Am curious to see how w3c envisions the new navigation list (nl, same family as ul) element to work. Perhaps browsers will make the nl element collapsible/expandable like aqtree. [ia/ - news for information architects] aqTree2 is very nice expanding tree done in javascript. I am almost curious enough to pop the hood and have a look for myself. Almost. 1:33:12 PM

India outsourcing not all bad India, Pakistan and GE - Friedman. Thomas Friedman has an interesting viewpoint on how the IT industry staved off a possible war between India and Pakistan. He writes: Two months ago India and Pakistan appeared headed for a nuclear war. [E M E R G I C . o r g] A short insight into how India's internationalized IT industry stopped India going to war by Thomas L. Friedman. By the same author - The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. I loved this book. 1:12:04 PM

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