BurningbirdDon at Hands in the Dirt writes: For Christians, I think that the last thing called for in this Christmas season is phony magic, the wishful making upright of all that is turned over, either personal or in the larger world. Or the cloying fake holiday spirit of Coke ads (you know that the polar bears […]
M David Peterson points out a comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis over at the Ongoing post on the JSON/XML thing: From: Aristotle Pagaltzis (Dec 21 2006, at 18:52) Anders: It’s a stretch to call the man who designed both RSS 2.0 and OPML an “XML partisan.” Toro! Toro! Olé!
I have long been brought up to a belief that tolerance is a virtue, not a vice or a vise. Evidently, not all people have this same belief. The irony of the situation is, of course, that if I truly believe in tolerance, then I must also be tolerant of the intolerant. I must admit […]
Of course I didn’t forget that this is Cephalopodmas day! Others are also pointing this out, but I’ll give the tip of the tentacle to Laughing Squid for news about the new video of the giant squid, captured by a Japanese researcher. The video was of a smaller, immature giant squid, only about 11 feet long. Still, I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dare Obasanjo and I don’t always agree, but today I agree with him completely when he writes about the tightening of data from web services: The obvious reaction was to make the Google and del.icio.us announcements into a REST vs. SOAP or XML vs. JSON story since geeks like to turn every […]