What a great idea!

Harnessing those 10 second chunks of human brain-power http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html. Brilliant.

Fish

I won't be at this years XML Summer School in Oxford unfortunately but it is clearly already shaping up nicely. For example, here Paul seems so suggest that I'm fond of "silly visual abstractions".

Moi?

Barcamp Galway date change

Barcamp Galway is now Sat 22 September. One week later than originally planned.

The Just Use X club

"If you sense some bubbling frustrations seeping through my words this week take ten bonus points for observation. I am doing my best to turn a full-on rant into a mildly excoriating admonition to the members of a group of semi-technical folk I call the Just Use X club..." -- The Just Use X club

"Intent" is not a number

"Intent does not get digitized when the surface level content of the interaction is digitized." --"Intent" is not a number

Master Foo and document interchange formats

"The precise meaning of the contents of a document is an attribute of the observer (the software) not the observed (the data)." --
Master Foo and document interchange formats

Jython 2.2 RC1

Jython 2.2 RC1 is out!