BurningbirdToday’s adventures in tech: other than pushing some data around, as well as pushing around some JavaScript and doing a bit of writing, I also purchased my first bluetooth mouse: a Logitech laptop mouse for my Powerbook. I like the mouse, but it seems to come disconnected rather frequently. My bluetooth keyboard from Apple doesn’t […]
This efficient ways to store graphs in MySQL will come in handy. The RDF/A draft for embedding RDF in XHTML has been released. I did a quick look at the spec and it does look good — the microformats people will be happy to see it. I still believe that we don’t need to embed RDF directly into our web pages […]
Beware the Phil! Protect your textareas! Phil Ringnalda, responding from his semi-regular weblog hiatus to a quip by Anil Dash about being silenced: While you were watching mailing lists, I landed three Firefox patches, including a FF2 blocker, and one that was once a 1.5 blocker in two different bugs, though we gave up on it later. There’s […]
I live by a simple philosophy: I never say anything of a live person I wouldn’t be willing to repeat after they’re dead. And I would never say anything of a person after their death that I wouldn’t be willing to say of them while they’re alive.
Gary Turner: Maybe this is when it all unfurls and collapses in on itself, blogging having been completely consumed and repurposed by a cabal of MSM and faux-hip-and-late-to-the-party-but-hell-let’s-trash-it-anyway PR bods – and blogging’s core hacker ethic is finally sullied beyond sauvage after one too many commercial pisses in the proverbial punchbowl.