Day 4 was faily unevenful. We travelled via plane to Chongqing and settled into our new hotel, the Chongqing Marriott. This picture serves as a great study in the area. Chongqing sits in the mountains at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers. The city, with a population of 30,000,000 is a primarily an agrucultural area. In the center of the photo you can see a typical farmers house, surrounded by their fields.

Today was a very low key day. I wanted to keep a low profile as I am still recovering from the stomach flu, and we also want time with Caden, so Lynne and I skipped out on the scheduled site-seeing and stuck around the hotel. In the morning we walked around the nearby pedestrian mall with Mark and Moya doing some window shopping and stopping by the grocery store on the way back for necessities.

This is the day, Gotcha Day, the day we get Caden. She came right to us, with no crying at all. It was very cute, she sat on Lynne's lap and just stared at me for a good 5 minutes. Then she reached out for me. We sent pictures out to the orphanage earlier and I think the Aunties did a good job of showing her the pictures because she seemed to recognize us.

It's all a blur. That is, after I got off the plane this will all seem a blur, and truth be told, it's all a blur right now in middle of it all. It's been nice a nice trip to far, Lynne and I got 3 seats in the back of the plane for our Charlotte to SFO leg. This let us take turns sleeping on each others laps. That flight was uneventful except for the landing.

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.

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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?