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Ugh. Hans sent along this screenshot of the test css layout in Netscape 4. Sad, very sad.

Mark Pilgrim has posted an Accessibility statement for his site.

Some Categories, in no particular order:

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Hardware
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The Shifted Librarian joined my must read list out sheer gratitude for this link:

An excerpt from an email at work:

Heh. Spring starts in February here in the Southwest. Since mostly you see cacti and desert shrubs, I thought these flowering trees across the street from the Webhouse were awesome. Reminds me of Virginia.

Ugh. Jim wanted to report a bug in Userland's Radio Userland, and ask a question. The reward for his trouble?

Ok, this is COOL. David Brown has got Radio Userland working as a Python IDE. The outliner is a miracle worker in this context. Damn, if I only had the $40...

Glenn Reynolds writes about the new Google Search Appliance: "You can also take the raw XML output and work with it, too, which opens up a wide array of possibilities of combining Google's search output with other intranet or Internet services."

This article about the movie studios vs. personal video recorders has been making the rounds.

"The dilemma is, the technology is turning the business model upside down. But that doesn't mean it's copyright infringement." Damn straight.

I've added a new category: Semantic Web to this site.

Hmmmm?

I've been reading about RDF in the evenings, and hanging out on #plex (irc.openprojects.net).

I like this icon.

Adam Curry (yes, that Adam Curry, for those of you who grew up in the 80's) has a very well-written piece up on his site about trust. Read it.

A friend who will remain anonymous just wrote me:

>the best way I can summarize the feeling is like this:
> I was doing pretty well trying to maintain a positive attitude
> but then it all went into the crapper

My Radio Userland stopped working today (free trial over). It was expected. Oh well. I was really enjoying using the outliner to post to my blog. But we're moving soon, and I don't have even the $40 to get a license to Radio.

I started seriously hacking on python last night. As I asked on #plex: "why do we always start with the most complex project we can think of when learning a new language?"

Anyway, I started on a python library/wrapper for Conversant's xml-rpc API. I've started this project in 3 different languages now, and I never get any farther than the last time. I suspect the problem lies in my somewhat weak OO design skills - transmogrifying a procedural API to an OO one is not an easy task.

This is no reflection on Conversant, BTW. Au contraire - Conversant's API is very OO considering the functional language it's built on. It's more the flattening nature of remote procedure APIs, and my own aforementioned weaknesses.

Hey! It looks like jim got home safe! Good for you, Jim. Now, get blogging! ;-)

I had dinner recently with Wes Felter while he was in Phoenix, and we got to talking about peer-to-peer technologies. It's been rattling around in my head ever since. Yesterday I was emailing with Wes and he suggested getting on #p2p-hackers on irc.openprojects.net.

I finally found an irc client for Mac OS X (Snak) and got on. While there I ran into Aaron Swartz, who in turn pointed me to the work he's doing in distributed information spaces (based on RDF-style tuples) in the Plex. Mmmmm, distributed RDF.