BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Through an afternoon spent fighting torrential rains and aggressive truckers, I’m finally in my own comfy chair, computer on lap, and — wonders! — an internet connection. A week of not being connected, and my emails are still downloading. Hopefully I won’t accidentally delete anything important. This last week I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. I inhale […]
When I demonstrated a very simplified RDF/RSS model last week, in the comments attached to the post, Ziv asked the following question: One question of an RDF newbie: Why do we need that (rdf:Description) element? Why can’t we simply put the @rdf:about attribute on the (item)? As I started to answer the question in the comments, I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Regarding RSS, Dave will be releasing his version of RSS tomorrow. Ben Hammersley has taken on the responsibility to try and get feedback to Dave about the Userland RSS. Good job, Ben, and good on you for taking this on. I’ll even forgive you for eating Marmite for this one. You can view my opinion […]
Recovered 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 […]