Documentation, by any other name, would smell...

I refer to machine generated documentation. The kind that replaces rather than supplements, human-generated narrative. Like the pretty - but content-free - guff that is generated from XML Schema authoring tools for example. To be worthy of the name "documentation", there must be more at stake than just a report of what you previously explained to the machine.

Viruses as productivity black holes

I've had an attack of the Win32.Linkbot.U's. Also known as the Poebot-K, the WORM_POEBOT, the Backdoor.Win32.PoeBot.b and a number of other names besides.

I won't bore you with the details, the mess I ended up in, the trouble I had had getting back to normality...

I'll just say this:

TWO DAYS LOST.

Grrrrr.

Nude descending a staircase

Every few years, when the volume of keys on my keyring amounts to a tympanic, spike laden tennis ball of metal, like something from the mind of Marcel Duchamp, I do a purge.

-- Invisible Spaghetti.

A medidation on the advantages of wires.

The Big E phenomenon

The Big E Phenomenon - a dystopian steady state future for e-commerce? Or should that be utopian?

Back in harness

I'm back from vacation and from the XML Summer School in Oxford. The Summer School was fun. A unique event. A bit like a Geek Cruise but floating in a flotilla of ancient college in a sea of fantastic museums, libraries and bookshops.

Highly recommended.

Sometimes, its smart to be stupid

Smart Stupidity.

Frying pans

frying pans. blogging from telex machine in connemara stop cannot say more now as on hols and avoiding computers stop back in two weeks stop. only joking stop. about the telex stop. stop. stop.