Weapons of Math Destruction - Sarnoff, Metcalf and Reed. Laws of the hyperjungle

David Reed explains why the Internet makes a lot of existing business models choke on their cornflakes.

I'm a LAMP-head

I'm a LAMP-head. At least some of the time.

Printers, Coffee Machines and Razor Blades

In the ITWorld archives, Printers, Coffee Machines and Razor Blades.

Pareto Peristaltic Peripatetic Perambulations of a Propylate

As I wonder around the blogsphere, I link to things, and they link back. Every time I look at my blog's hits I'm reminded of the 80/20 rule and scale free networks etc. etc. This guy in particular, has a lot to answer for.

An interesting Data Pump

This is perfect for XML processing you know. I've always wanted a way of treating data processing as a form of logistics. Pneumatic pumping of XML instances through transforming pipes. I can see it all now...

Beautifully illustrated intro to Unicode

Tim Bray's visual introduction to Unicode.

Nobody takes me seriously

I'm getting disheartened at the number of ideas I have floated in the XML community that do not get taken seriously. Look at this for five years worth of ignored ideas? What gives? Is there a pattern here?

April 1 2003	MMIX Interperter in XSLT
April 1 2002	Applying Financial Technical Analysis Techniques to XML Validation
April 1 2001	Nanotech implementation of XSLT engine
April 1 2000	Quantum Markup Language
April 1 1999	RTF to XML Converter in Perl