Jason Van Zyl: "I would like to propose the movement of the Helma XML-RCP package (http://xmlrpc.helma.org/) to Jakarta."

I'm trying to convince my co-worker Hans to update his site, H2. He says he doesn't get enough traffic to justify the effort, so it's up to all of you out there to visit him.

Jim has started using Mozilla as his main browser. I've downloaded it and am checking it out. Jim s right - it's fast as... it's fast. But there are some nagging bits that are bugging me: The current gotcha is that I can't seem to drag bookmarks around in my "Manage Bookmarks" window. I want to! I really do! But Moz seems to not like drag and drop. How do I re-organizae my bookmarks then? Jim?

This article (via xblog) is really, really interesting. I would love to see an implementation of this in action.

I found out that the bike shop I went to for years (1988 - 1996, when I stopped riding frequently) has a website. These guys are really knowledgeable. I'm looking for a shop closer to my neighborhood, but if I don't find one, I'm making these guys my shop of choice once again.

Via a link from Greg titus on the Cocoa-Dev list: the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has an online Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems (DADS) - all the interesting bits of comp sci. ;-)

Seth says: "Would you like to provide a foster home for a stray programmer? He's house trained, and can do tricks!"

Well, it looks like I'm going to be buying a pickup from my brother-in-law, and this morning I bought a mountain bike. Finally! I got it pretty cheap, and it's a decent bike. Jodi's going to want me to spend some time getting her bike up to speed, then we can start riding together. ;-) I think we're going to also start going to the rock gym again.

Microsoft's assimilation of NCompass Labs' Resolution CMS is complete. Exhibit A.

Eric S. Raymond: "Who's Viral Now?"

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):

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?

Yes, I'm 30(!) years old today. Wow.

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.

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

From the Mac OS X Weblog - Jordan Hubbard is going to work for Apple.

BTW - GBDirect does a lot of software development for IT-industry site The Register.

With all the bruhaha going on about Microsoft's new Smart Tags feature (esp. in IE6) I have to wistfully note - intead of "Smart-Tags" in IE, Microsoft could have had a PR glory day and been the first to widely distribute a working implementation of XLink, the long-awaited XML-linking spec:

GBDirect, a UK-based consulting firm, has some interesting eBusiness-related case studies on their site, including a good one on implementing an eCommerce site using open-source software.

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.