Master Foo On Structured Documents

"Embrace the controlled vocabulary. Do not fight it. It is stronger than you are and it has Murphy's Law on its side."
-- Master Foo On Structured Documents

ITWorld

Every week now since April, 2001 I have been writing an article for ITWorld. For a couple of years they where about XML, then I switched over to a wider e-Business banner and, well, wrote about whatever took hold of me at the time.

Generally, when a new article is published on the ITWorld site, I blog it here. Some folks get an e-mail feed directly from the ITWorld site.

Anyway, I'm finishing up the E-Business articles for a while at the end of this month. I'm going to write stuff from a different angle for the next while on the same weekly schedule with ITWorld. I'll blog it here as before.

The plan is that some time next year, I'll switch again to something that ITWorld has cooking. More news on that later.

Leaving it to your imagination

"I find myself strangely thankful for the limitations in our technologies. " -- Leaving it to your imagination

Leveraging hardware errors

Sometimes, interesting things happen as hardware fails : Mars robot unearths microbe clue.

Aside: what a mind-blowing technical accomplishment the rovers have been! Initial mission duration estimate: 90 days. Days at last count : 1400 and there is life in the old birds yet. Amazing.

Words fail me

Words that lack sufficience.

Sentences that lack all adequacy.

Here: http://thekingdomkids.org/.

And here : Uncle Uche.

Saying nothing (outside of this) seems like the least inadequate thing to say.

Scratching and sniffing the ones and zeros

"These days we pick up vast quantities of 1s and 0s. We still hand over the dollars but we don't get anything back in return. At least nothing that we can easily relate to with our senses. No lovely vinyl. No smooth and visually appealing packaging. Just sense-impervious electromagnetism." -- Scratching and sniffing the ones and zeros

Give One Get One : US and Canada only?

This is fantastic. You get one, and a kid gets one too. A tremendous way for all geeks to do something very positive, very easily.

But...when will I be able to do this from over here in Europe? The page says US and Canada only:-/