One of my other new toys for Christmas was a Palm Tungsten E. This is the lowest end of the Tungsten family and had the best price/feature mix of all the Palms I looked at. The rest of the models were a little too pricey for me, and the Zire line just felt to flimsy in my hands. I had never owned a Palm before and was a little concerned about "

The same way you eat an elephant. Is it even worth asking where the "professional" media is on this story? On December 13, when U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush not only celebrated with his national security team, but also pulled out his pen and signed into law a bill that grants the FBI sweeping new powers. A White House spokesperson explained the curious timing of the signing - on a Saturday - as "

Part of my packing for the trip to China includes Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, a 927 page book that is the first part of a new trilogy from the author that brought us Cryptonomicon. Cryptonomicon was a great sprawling book and spurred my interest in World War II and how it has shaped our world today. I'm looking forward to diving into this book and given the 25 hours of travel we have on the first day of our trip I think I can put a good dent in it.

There were cookies.

This is how the year begins. At 4 am. On the first day of the year. Lynne and I kiss our three boys good-bye. The first day starts at 4 am and is twenty-five hours long. Twenty-five hours of waiting for planes, riding on planes, and waiting for the next plane. Waiting to get to China. This is not just Lynne and I. This is a team. This is a team effort.

Delcom Engineering has pre-programmed Cypress chipsets allowing access to digital I/Os. And only $8.00! Complete with a Windows driver and sample C applications. [Indirectly via Slashdot: USB Menorah] This has serious drool potential for an embedded developer. Imagine Makefiles that can reset the target before uploading the firmware, or unit tests on the target hardware with the PC in control of the DIOs. Ok, if you're not an embedded developer the use of the term "

One in 100 may get travel blood clots, study shows DVT made international headlines and airlines came under pressure to do more to prevent the condition after a 28-year-old British woman died from the condition about three years ago after a 20-hour flight from Australia to London.

Python 2.3 doesn't support Minix. Why hasn't this generated the outcry I expected?

Found in the IDLE shell of Python 2.3, on startup: **************************************************************** Personal firewall software may warn about the connection IDLE makes to its subprocess using this computer's internal loopback interface. This connection is not visible on any external interface and no data is sent to or received from the Internet. **************************************************************** This, to me, is further seepage of Unix ideas moving into the Windows world. I believe that seepage is going to increase as as Windows tries to keep up with the innovation going on in Linux today.

Privately Funded SpaceShipOne Breaks Sound Barrier. One for Christopher's current events homework.

A spec is only as good as the test suite it ships with. With that in mind, here's a first pass at what I would like to see a test suite test on an Atom API implementation. How about filling up the comments with all the stuff I missed? Thanks. Introspection/Discovery Start with a URL to a web page: Find a link to the FeedURI (rel="service.feed") on the web page Find a link to the FeedURI in the auto-discovered Atom feed on the same page.

How about testing and documents UI widgets? Widgetopia: Collection of Widgets and UI elements from various websites, with notation of their sterling or plate metal qualities [via mamamusings] On the level of a personal test, Joi Ito has decided to quit drinking: I've been trying to "cut back" on my drinking, but it doesn't work. I got drunk last night and I regret it. So, I've quit drinking. If you're my friend please be supportive and don't offer me alcohol please.

Revision 09 of the draft RFC for the AtomAPI has been released. The change in this version is the addition of SOAP handling originally outlined in DifferentlyAbledClients.

I don't buy the argument that programmers benefit from a Web Services toolkit. Such things do not build applications -- at most they automate the production of security holes. Getting two components to communicate is a trivial process that can be accomplished using any number of toolkits (including the libwww ones). The difficult part is deciding what to communicate, when to communicate it, in what granularity, and how to deal with partial failure conditions when they occur.

pdf "right click" download Results 1 - 50 of about 1,250,000. I'm sure this is related to the feed MIME type discussion we've been having, but I can't figure out what you're trying to say... Posted by Greg Reinacker on 2003-12-07 Greg, What is it about PDF that caused people to put phrases such as "Here is the PDF document, right click to download to disk" on over 1.25 million web pages?

There has been much talk today, and in the far past, of how to automatically handle syndication subscription. The conversation was first brought up and thoroughly discussed by Greg Reinacker. The issue has resurfaced on the [atom-syntax] mailing list. Now there are a small contingent of folks pushing for a new uri scheme called 'feed:' that would enable syndication subscription. Creating a new URI scheme is a bad idea, don't do it.

I don't know how I missed this, but back on September 23 ESR's book The Art of Unix Programming went to Rev 1, which means it is the version of the content that is going into the print book. There is a lot of information in there and I have only skimmed a few chapters but I found them all excellent. For example Threads - Threat or Menace? stresses using multiple processes over threads.

Draft 08 of the AtomAPI is now available. This revision has been a long time in coming as it reflects the large changes that were previewed almost a month ago. Changes include: Refactored the specification. Merging the Introspection file into the feed format. Dropped the distinction between the type of URI used to create new entries and the kind used to create comments. Dropped user preferences.

Tim Bray has posted a nice summary of what he thinks a a search API should look like: On Search: Interfaces Most of it I agree with, but I think there are advantages to having it a bit more RESTful. His query interface I agree, though I obviously have a bias towards the results set being expressed as an Atom feed. The API for managing postings isn't as RESTful as I think it could be.

There was pie.