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Critters Technology

Cats and computers

I’ve been having considerable problems with my Dell laptop keyboard. Several of the keys (SHFT, CTRL, and ‘c’) only work if you pound them, hard, and the ‘a’ key keeps repeaaaaaaaaaaating. Thinking that the keyboard needed cleaning, I grabbed an index card and started digging around underneath the keys. Cat hairs. Thousands and thousands of […]

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Technology Web

Name that space

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The fluff about namespaces in RSS 2.0 seems to have boiled down to: the major version number should have warned everyone that this version of the specification isn’t compatible with previous versions. The solution: generate both sets of Userland RSS (0.9x and RSS 2.0) until aggregators can properly work with […]

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Technology

PHP/MySQL Help

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My system has MySql 2.23.51, Apache 1.3, PHP4, FreeBSD, and I’m running into problems trying to update or insert into MySql with PHP. The update or insert works, but I get warning back: Warning: MySQL: Unable to save result set The change is saved, but the application breaks. No error […]

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Technology Weblogging

Consumer rights and RSS

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Yesterday was a disappointing technology day. I had hoped to use the position of devil’s advocate at theĀ RSS-DevĀ group to see if we couldn’t get a firmer definition of what the group sees as its future direction, strategy, as well as specific reasons for use of RDF. I continue to see […]

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Web

Who is your audience and what are you trying to accomplish?

Recovered from Wayback Machine. Just posted the following over at RSS-Dev (edited to remove typos): There seems to be three separate threads running along the lines of “Who are we and what are we trying to accomplish”, mixed in with proofs and justification of keeping RDF in the mix. How can the energy expended into […]