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	Friday, October 18, 2002

 Unintended Search Hits

It takes courage to blog.

This is scary: blog gives you publicity you probably don’t want. After your name pops up at the first page of search results you're kind of expected to provide high quality content.

[Mathemagenic]

3:37:06 PM  comment [] | Topics: Writing goodWeblogs 

 Yikes! I won't even tell you what your new site looks like on my computer.

A friend just sent me this note:

> Yikes!  I won't even tell you what your new site
> looks like on my computer.  I just hope it looks
> better on yours..... template teething pains......

A little embarrassing, like walking around a cocktail party with pepper in your teeth.

I remember an item flying through my aggregator about some multi-browser viewing tool. It was supposed to show your website through other people's configurations. For example, the friend that sent me the note is on a Mac using Mozilla browser. My site looks fine in IE on my pc. Does anyone remember this?

Joseph - thanks for letting me know, I sincerely appreciate your honesty.

Great, now my liveTopics are messed up too.

1:34:18 PM  comment [] | Topics: CSS Tools 

 The one that got away

VC watch: Ecast grabs $14 million. The digital entertainment company firms up $14 million...

[CNET News.com]

12:39:30 PM  comment [] |

Open Source presents Microsoft with its biggest challenge

The Inquirer - 7 hours ago
INVESTORS' NEWS SERVICE Bloomberg took the opportunity of Microsoft's announcement of quarterly results yesterday to observe that Open Source stands in the way of the Vole's total world domination.
Microsoft sees free software as major challenge to its sales EastDay.com
Linux Renews Desktop Bid eWeek
Tacoma News Tribune - Detroit News - and 5 related »

[Google Tech News]

12:35:29 PM  comment [] | Topics: Tools 

XML 1.1 Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation 15 October 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 14 February 2003. The specification addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending issues. Visit the XML home page. [W3C]

W3C Advances XML 1.1 [Dr. Dobb's]

Take up knitting. XML 1.1 newline controversy. Thoughts on "the new pixelism". Hidden Mozilla preferences. Transcript of the Eldred case. Reactions to yet another a proposed syndication format. (261 words) [dive into mark]

XML Spec Moves Ahead Despite Gripes [Cnet News]

Read the Unicode spec.... Unicode 3.2 define 0x85 as a newline character. This change just make XML follow the Unicode spec, which isn't unreasonable considering that the parser is expected to use Unicode internally (or to act as if it does). [Slashdot] (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Read the Unicode spec.... It's more complicated than that. Unicode has
2029 - paragraph seperator
2028 - line seperator
000D - CR
000A - LF
0085 - NEL (Next Line)
Any of these could be interpeted as the end of a logical line. [Slashdot] (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Read the Unicode spec.... And if you read the XML 1.1 spec you'll see that all of the characters you've listed above except for 0x2029 are interpreted by XML 1.0 as the end of a logical line. [Slashdot] (Score:5, Informative)

XML 1.0 discriminates against the conventions used on IBM and IBM-compatible mainframes. As a result...XML 1.0 documents generated on mainframes must either violate the local line-end conventions, or employ otherwise unnecessary translation phases before parsing and after generation. Allowing straightforward interoperability is particularly important when data stores are shared between mainframe and non-mainframe systems. Therefore XML 1.1 adds NEL (#x85) to the list of line-end characters. [XML 1.1 at W3C]

12:30:24 PM  comment [] | Topics: XML 

 The Merriam-Webster Toolbar

I am absolutely loving this browser toolbar. I installed it about a month ago. You can use it to look up definitions or synonyms with the Thesaurus.

It caches your lookups, viewable by clicking the arrow of the drop-down box. This is really useful when composing a post in Radio's WYSIWYG editor - the definitions pop up in a small separate window, so you don't lose your place.

Sorry Mac users, IE 5.0+ on Windows required.

Another bonus: a reverse dictionary for those moments when you find yourself asking isn't there a word for this?

11:52:02 AM  comment [] | Topics: Tools 

Has anyone tried this trillian IM thingy? I am perfectly happy with AIM, but would like to retrieve messages sent to me while I was away. I don't know how to so this with AIM.

"Connect to ICQ®, AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger and IRC in a single, sleek and slim interface.

Trillian .74 is completely free, with no use limits, no spyware and no ads. 5 Million downloads can't be wrong!"

10:53:58 AM  comment [] | Topics: Tools