Mark Pilgrim’s google weblog neighborhood came up on a couple of my RSS feeds today, so I decided to find out for myself: Neighborhood for blog.germuska.com Name Links Explore diepunyhumans.com 3 explore dadpad.com/retrorocket/ 3 explore blog.germuska.com 3 explore slashdot.org 2 explore cardhouse.com/heath/ 2 explore bradleysalmanac.com/blogger.html 2 explore boingboing.net 2 explore blogdex.media.mit.edu 2 explore also-rans.com 2 [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
March 30th, 2003
First Look at InfoPath
Joe in Uncategorized
John Udell has posted First Look at InfoPath, a discussion of Microsoft’s forthcoming XML editing tools which will be part of Office 11. Just this weekend I was wishing for one of the things it offers — data input forms automatically generated from an XML Schema. It’s the kind of thing everyone knew was coming [...]
March 29th, 2003
Quesadillas
Jennifer got the Moosewood Restaurant Cooks At Home cookbook for Christmas. With a New Year’s resolution to cook more and better meals at home, it has served us quite well. We’ve been particularly pleased with two varieties of quesadilla. They are fairly quick to make, and they keep very well for a few days. This [...]
March 23rd, 2003
One Man, One Year, One World
Vagabonding.com chronicles the solo, one year, round-the-world journey of Mike Pugh, an optimist from Chicago, USA. It’s a beautiful site. Share and Enjoy:
March 21st, 2003
The Great Go-Goop War
Joe in politricks
Shrub turned around and looked down–So did Shackles Drumbeater looked, and he hiked up his hackles Itchascratch hiccuped–his upper lip curled They’d forgotten about the so-called Nother World The hundreds of Towers that stood under Us’s– Some of them owners of big blunderbusses And every last one intertwined with the Loop That linked the Great [...]
March 20th, 2003
Take It To The Streets
As I write, about four thousand anti-war protesters are marching down Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, blocking all traffic, apparently in both directions. The chopper footage on the TV news is really inspiring. Share and Enjoy:
March 16th, 2003
FOAF
Joe in Uncategorized
I’ve been interested in the potential of RDF for adding “smarts” to the web for a long time. For the uninitiated, RDF is a very general way of making meta-data available to machines for automated processing. The way most people see the general value is when you point out how hard it can be to [...]
March 16th, 2003
When Persuasion Fails, Try Lying
Joe in politricks
CNN reports that the UN has rejected as forgeries certain documents provided by the US to the weapons inspectors. These documents were intended as evidence that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons. If a mistake was made, a U.S. official suggested, it was more likely due to incompetence not malice. “That’s a convenient explanation, but it [...]
March 15th, 2003
Historical Event Markup Language
The Historical Event Markup and Linking project provides a means of coordinating and navigating disparate historical materials on the internet. It includes an XML schema for historical events which describes the events’ participants, dates, location and keywords; the schema associates these with source materials in print or on the web. XSLT stylesheets that combine conforming [...]