To those on the redmonk mail list: sorry about all the webservices posts - I've been working on Sid, and was debugging it at 2 am - a bunch of posts slipped through the email system before I could delete them from the site...

Whew. Well, it's 2:17 am and I finally got this thing working I think. If you're seeing this on the home page, then I've finally got Sid moved over from the old XML-RPC framework I was using to Apple's new WebServicesCore framework.

I'm scaring Aaron.

A comment to Morbus's O'Reilly post reveals how to get clickable urls. Put the url between angle brackets (< >).

It has been determined (by me) that iCal borks on mac-style line endings (\r - oh, the irony!) Morbus whipped up a perl cgi that will convert your mac-style line endings to unix ones, so you can subscribe to a mac-encoded calendar.

I just sent this to Apple via their iCal feedback page:

"I think it would be very useful to allow HTML in the DESCRIPTION and SUBJECT fields, so that hyperlinks and formatting can be included. This would enhance the workflow of shared calendars - users can create an event, then point (in the description or subject) to a web-based resource."

Morbus has updated his entry on iCal, vCalendar, and Moveable Type. If you're an MT hack, he needs a plug-in that strips links in a post and gathers them as footnotes at the bottom of the post.

Morbus has updated his blog entry with information on the linefeed issue, his script, and the fact that Mike at NewsIsFree now has Slashdot posts running into an iCal file.

I forgot to post this on Tuesday when I heard it, but NPR's Public Interest "Tech Tuesday" had a piece on blogging. (Real Audio) Rebecca Blood was the main guest, along with David Gallagher and Eric Olsen from BlogCritics.org. All in all it was not a lot of new material, but it was interesting to hear the guests, and amusing to hear Kojo saying "blahg". -)

Morbus Iff over at Disobey.com got his blog iCal-ified. Subscribe to it here.

Jim had this cool idea to use weblog software to generate an iCal-compatible vCal file for a blog. Then iCal users could subscribe to it. I want to try this out.

I copied and hand-hacked one of my calendars in iCal to see how it might look with blog entries as events. Blog titles get cut down to one word (in week view, my default), and there's no easy way to see the description unless you use the inpector. iCal is not the ideal blog-reader, by any stretch, but it does open up some interesting possibilities. Not sure what they are yet, but I'm hoping that by spreading the idea someone out there will have some cool ideas on great ways to use this.

On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 10:07 AM, Donald W. Larson wrote:

> view this message on the web at: http://www.redmonk.net/1432 > -------------------------------> >> Larry wall was quoted as saying: >> >> I remember reading at some point that you are a Christian... Please >> tell us how in the world a scientific or at least technical mind can >> believe in God... > > One doesn&#39;t need to be a Christian to believe in God. That&#39;s my first > point.

I&#39;ll grant you that, Don. But at the same time, I don&#39;t think that was the point. Larry is a Christian (I&#39;m assuming from reading his reply, and other things he&#39;s written), and the questioner was asking how, as a scientist, Larry can believe in God. I thought his reply was well said, and that&#39;s what I was pointing out.

-- Steve Ivy - http://www.redmonk.net - steve@redmonk.net "This is my world, and I am, the World Leader Pretend..." --

I finally got the flat tire on my bike fixed today, and headed out for a ride this evening. I was feeling good, had the Camelbak, and was going to do a quick 4 mile ride to get my legs back.

Larry Wall, inventor of the perl programming language, answers questions on Slashdot. One of the most interesting boiled down to:> "I remember reading at some point that you are a Christian... Please tell us how in the world a scientific or at least technical mind can believe in God..."

Struts 1.1 has gone beta, and has added (among other cool stuff) even easier form handling and automatic pushing/pulling of values into and out of the form. This is one of WebObjects' strengths, and it's good to see it appearing in the open-source community.

Les Orchard is going weird again. -) BlogWalking, WiFi, SmartMobs...

Mark Pilgrim has posted a (exhaustive as far as I can tell) history of the battle over RSS.

I just got my umpteenth rejection letter in my (now 11 week long) job search. This was for a job that I felt really good about. A job I was (by their own admission) over-qualified for. A job where the interview was one of the best I've ever had. I don't know at this point what else I could have done. This is so frustrating.