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Archive for June, 2001

Gotta Love ESR

Friday, June 29th, 2001

Good Ole Eric S. Raymond: “As for looking at .NET? Sure, we should be looking at it — the same way the Samba guys look at SMB file shares. C# is a weak language design, a sort of pale imitation Java. But that just makes it easier to co-opt.” Hmmmm. Related perhaps to this article… Dot-GNet?

Wow. 30.

Friday, June 29th, 2001

Yes, I’m 30(!) years old today. Wow.

Help!

Friday, June 29th, 2001

There’s a song I heard on the radio the other day that I cannot for the life of me figure out the title or artist for. I can remember some of the lyrics on the chorus, but that’s it. And I can hear the main hook in my head something fierce. The lyrics go something like (please don’t laugh):

i try to rise, and
keep my head up (head up)
i’m the king of the kong(?)
we’ll be singing the song
bring it on
bring it on
bring it on

Can anyone can help me figure this out?!?

Environmental Aqcuisition

Thursday, June 28th, 2001

Tim O’Reilly points to a Jon Udell article on “Environmental Aqcuisition”: a fancy name for hierarchy-based inheritance.

Frontier, the scripting system I used for many years, had this concept in it’s web site framework back in 1995: directives defined at higher levels of the container hierarchy were inherited by lower levels unless explicitly overidden.

Microsoft doesn’t care about technology (?)

Thursday, June 28th, 2001

John Rhodes makes the case that as long as we’re concerned about Microsoft’s shared source, or smart tags, Microsoft is winning, because they are moving to a service model where they control the infrastructure of authentication and personal information, and internet services. Hmmm.

My New Favorite Web Site

Tuesday, June 26th, 2001

Well, ok, not really… But I checked out Fandango.Com after seeing the ads at the last few movies I’ve seen. Fandango (so far) seems relatively simple. Browse in, find a movie, and buy a ticket for your local theater. Cool!

Free Idea: Mac OS X service using XLink

Tuesday, June 26th, 2001

Ok, thinking about Smart-Tags-done-right again… Here’s a free idea. I’d like to see a Mac OS X service (probably need to be imeplemented in Java) that lets me download libraries of XLinks, then (optionally by using the service) tags words in my documents with a popup menu of possible links. This would build on work done in XLink, make use of existing Java-based XLink libraries, and be a total opt-in. Everything, of course, that Smart Tags aren’t.