BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I have been a busy little worker lately. I spent all weekend reviewing the hard copy of the Unix Power Tools book — all one thousand pages of it — looking for problems, as well as pulls for the book’s web site. I also made a stab at my first […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am disappointed. I am disappointed that the work I did yesterday to show that RDF can work well within a simplified RSS environment is for naught because assumptions have already been made, decisions sealed. Jon Udell writes, paraphrasing Sam Ruby, Assuming that the RSS core is now frozen…. Why is there […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I get private email communications all the time based on my postings, and most are great. Sometimes people will write because I have made a typo or a grammatical error, and I really appreciate this. I prefer not to make these kinds of mistakes, but can get excited when I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Folks, to all intents and purposes both RSS groups are continuing along on their separate paths. Whether the RSS 1.0 group continues using RDF in their specification is an open question, which I hope they will resolve as this indecision leaves confusion in its wake. I think the community loses […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Words have power. A word said in one context is just a word, but in another context lights the fuse to a bomb. “word” KA-BOOM! (Crispy fragments of confused wonderment) Power words are given their power through worry, fear, anger, insecurity, sadness, or hurt. Especially hurt. Nothing gives a power word more energy, more […]